Posted in baking, bento, breakfast, japanese, sushi on May 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Nigiri with salmon roe, tamagoyaki, avocado, enoki mushrooms and fried tofu on sushi rice.
The box held up nicely by the way :) It doesn’t seem to leak anything poisonous and was easy to wash.
The BF gets the same - and since he specifically asked me to buy more sugarpeas, he gets some more of those. [...]
Posted in baking, bento, indian, rice, vegetarian on April 14, 2008 | No Comments »
What a monday bento. I’m sure everyone has some of those days… but I needed a bento, I have meetings straight through lunchtime today!
I came home late from Aikido training last night and was glad I already had vegetable curry and some Naan dough leftover from lunch. Make space in the box, add some microwave-cooked [...]
Posted in baking on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
http://www.wildyeastblog.com/2008/04/02/bbd-08-roundup/
Look at all those phantastic breads from all over the world! I see a lot of experimental baking coming on in the near future…
(my Osterpinzen are in there, as is another Osterpinze, several Hot Cross buns and oodles of other spring celebration breads!)
Posted in baking, soup, sweet, vegetarian, tagged asparagus, pie, rhubarb, soup on March 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I don’t know about you, but when I read “Spring Food Sensations” on Abby’s blog, my mind immediately sprang to rhubarb. Rhubarb is to me the ultimate spring messenger, and a delicacy to boot!
When I was little, I used to eat it in a preserve, or a sponge cake with rhubarb pieces on top (delicious!). [...]
Posted in austrian, baking, sweet, weird austrian food, tagged austrian, baking, bread, cake, osterpinze, pinze on March 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Osterpinzen are a traditional Austrian easter bakery made out of soft, sweetened yeast dough.
Austria is primarily catholic, so there are a lot of traditions around easter! For example, on Easter sunday, this sweet bread, some hard-boiled eggs and a piece of ham or smoked meat are brought to Easter mass, so that the priest can [...]
