israeli couscous salad recipe
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Summer always causes me to chase that je ne sais quoi “summer feeling”. This easy-breeziness, that you somehow lose at the tender age of 14, and that you only seem to be able to compensate with an indecently expensive vacation to a place that can be summarized with words like: “luxury”, “retreat”, “beach front and “infinity pool”. Since vacations only happen, like, once a year, if at all (it does feel like there has been a very long absence in my life), I’m focusing on summer to do’s for sanity and happiness. Like a little bbq here and a bike ride through the summer night, there. I don’t ask for much, it’s the small things that make me happy.

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quick coconut loaf 5
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Coconut is probably one of my favorite flavors… I don’t necessarily mean the (cheap) perfumes and body sprays (the term alone…) I used as a teenager. I admit I slightly overdid it with these. Much rather, I refer to the connotations of coconut with summer, sun and beaches - because obviously I’ve spent my beach vacations in Italy, where freshly sliced coconuts are being offered for sale on the beach with intense ballyhooing. “Coco Bello, Coco!” is something that’s burnt forever in my memory of beach vacations. Somehow, and thus coconut is linked to summer, for me. Maybe the coconut flavored sun screens and Pina Coladas only add to that. Hmm, Pina Coladas. So very underrated, no?

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Update! Since this post from last summer - where the F&F empire *chuckle* was documented in pictures and even a little trailer - offers a pretty good view of F&F and my work behind the scenes, I figured you might like to see it gain. What with the new and shiny (or so I’d like to think) F&F site. Welcome, dear ones! Get inspired to cook and browse my everyday food ideas! For now, let’s see what’s cooking, shall we?
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Birthday Cake 3
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This cooking/baking and blogging job isn’t always hard work… It’s nice to get a readily made cake delivered to your kitchen for a quick shoot, before it’s transported on for a party. My mom made this intricate, layered sponge, mango and cream cake for my nephew’s 6th birthday. Tt was, apparently, one hell of a lot of work to make it, so she said we should enjoy it while it lasts because she’s literally not going to make another one.
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Kalte Tomatensuppe 1
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Whenever there’s a chance to visit a farmer’s or flower market, I’m game. I like the hustle and bustle of the wee hours, the stalls being set up, people chatting and exchanging a few words with the cheese supplier of their choice. It’s time standing still. It’s like a mini vacation in an otherwise busy week. Some weeks ago, I managed to capture spring’s abundance - peonies, radish - with just a couple of shots. They don’t really fit in this post along the chilled tomato soup, with their unstyled reality. But it felt like a betrayal not to use these pictures. Now that peonies are almost already out of season again, those pictures are even more special to me. also, when you get a salad that’s as pretty as this one, almost flower-like, you can’t not take a picture (being me). So my dad had to pose, lettuce in hand. He loves it. ha!
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raspberry swiss roll 2
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Funnily, this dessert, that I’ve eaten countless times during my childhood - mostly on garden party occasions in our back yard. But have since neglected, inexplicably, is apparently called “Swiss Roll”. At least, that what pinterest recently indicated it as. Around here, it’s simply known as a “Raspberry Roulade” or “Biscuit Roulade”, which I find slightly more accurate (considering I’m also “Swiss”, ahem). Nevertheless, I quite like the notion of “Swiss” labeled food, from “Swiss chard” (which we simply call “Krautstiel” or “Mangold”) to “Swiss cheese” (which, just to make this clear, isn’t really much more than a category - or rather geographic - description…).

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isn’t it so true when they say “summer time, and the living is easy”? i like the open-window kind of lifestyle. breezes sweeping through the flat, flowers in every corner, the balcony potted plants are growing like their weed (no pun intended), the more neutral tones gave way to summery, peachy tones, the bedding is replaced for breezy linen throws and the kitchen is bursting with tomatoes and apricots and other seasonal produce. my particular pride is the mini potted garden i’ve installed this year: some strawberries, a purple basil (that i’m yet shying away from eating, because it’s so neat), a mini basil and even some woodruff make me a happy (balcony) farmer. i’m also punching my helleborus - currently in a summer’s sleep, blooming wise - heavily with minerals and fertilizer, something i haven’t done those past years during the summer season - because i want them to have an extra easy start into the colder season. that’s my kind of homage to winter: making sure that the winter pots get the best recharge.

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Zucchini Nudeln 1

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zoodles are the perfect summer meal. they’re light and carbfree and with the coconut milk just a little bit exotic. everything i need for my current itchy feet and wanderlust. i can’t wait for our vacation in august! i really need a break from everything here - work and busy blogging weekends and projects. it has suddenly started to feel much more “real” that we’re actually going away….

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pic nic with sweets
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one of the first dishes my brother and i learned to make all on our own was this wonderful, very simple, home made chocolate pudding. we used to have to stand on stools to be able to peek into the pots. i don’t recall where the recipe for this originally came from, but i assume it was my nonna’s signature dessert, back in the days, and was passed on to my mom. in any case, rest assured this chocolate pudding has been in our family forever, and we’ve made it again and again for school dos, family outings, picknicks, potlucks and the like. in other words: it’s bullet proof. it’s super simple. it’s nostalgia in a pot.
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