February 11th, 2014

Gaufres de liège with sweet Starter

I feed my sweet starter at least once a week to ensure that it keeps it mild flavour and it strength. But what to do with the excess starter if there is no need for bread, baguette or Germknödel? In this case waffles are always a good idea. And I have a soft spot for […]

December 31st, 2013

Best of 2013

Und schon ist der letzte Tag des Jahres 2013 im vollen Gange. Höchste Zeit also, so wie in jedem Jahr auf die vergangenen zwölf Monate zurückzublicken. Welches waren meine persönlichen Blog-Highlights 2013?

And here is already the last day of the year! And so like in each year, I like to take a look back on the past twelve month and choose my favourites of 2013. And like in each year it is a hard choice for me. But finally I choose my twelve favourite posts and put them together as an collage!

July 21st, 2013

Pain de Campagne

During hot summer days I prefer light breads. Breads like Baguette or Pain de Campagne bring a reminiscence of french summer days in our life. For Pain de Campagne, which is although called French country bread, you can find thousand and one recipes and forms. Everyone seems to have his/her own recipe. But most of […]

June 2nd, 2013

Young Boar Crust

I planed to call this bread “May crust”, hoping to lure the sun from behind the rain clouds we had all May long.  But then my boyfriends Mum came in our kitchen while the bread was cooling and exclaimed: “Your loaves look like young boars!” And from that moment on, we called them “Young Boar […]

March 5th, 2013

Ciabatta

The Baguette with the long, cold fermentation was so delicious, that I started to though about using the same methode to bake Ciabattas. And because I did not bake Ciabattas for a quite long time, I did not only think about it but mixed directly a dough. The dough needs a long time in the […]

December 31st, 2012

Best of 2012

It’s already the last day of the year. And what a eventful year it was for me! It seems like yeasterday when I hurried through the lab to finish the last experiments of my Ph.d. thesis. And the time between writing the thesis, handing it in and defending it seeems to fly in one wink. […]