Dishwashers are the greatest luxury since sliced bread. It’s a luxury like power windows on a car – so unnecessary – but just great to have them. You know we’ve recently moved into a new apartment which btw also means that I am now as broke as a self-employed, tax-paying idiot can be by the [...]

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Lindt easter bunnies made of chocolate and already on sale although it’s still some weeks till Easter. They btw started selling Xmas cookies as early as September last year. Scary. Leek Flower Paste. I still haven’t figured how to use this on food (@KPT – weißt Du es?) but it was really cheap so I [...]

New year’s resolutions are supposed to be made – and then quickly forgotten. I can’t even remember if it was a new year’s resolution, but it’s January 2009 now and the wife (“she”) said we’d have to go on a diet. South-Beach Diet. If you’re married or at least engaged, you’ll know that wise men [...]

Talking about (urban) alottment gardens the other day, one of the advantages of living in downtown Frankfurt am Main is that there’s this special park in the neighbourhood which used to be a nursery a looooong time ago. After it had closed many years ago, the biggest part of the garden was turned into a [...]

Lentils, mung beans and fenugreek seeds… …soaked in water for 3-4 days: “In a secular world with a never-ending search for a deeper meaning, climate protection is the new ersatz religion.” – read this somewhere the other day and instantly thought: yeah, Kyoto would actually be a good name for a child. No, seriously, this [...]

What you see here is my more or less successful attempt at making Daifuku-Mochi – “a Japanese confection consisting of a small round mochi (glutinous rice cake) stuffed with sweet filling, most commonly anko, sweetened red bean paste made from azuki beans.” You know I’d found Mochi from Taiwan on sale at an Asia Shop [...]

…und was für welchen. Jeera Rice, von priya. Schmeckt genauso fad und ölig wie es auf dem Teller aussschaut. Ich bevorzuge ja klebrigen Reis dem locker luftigem, aber dieses ölige Gemansche war dann doch zu viel Pappkram. Außerdem: mit den 30 Kreuzkümmelsamen, 2 Blättern und so bekomm ich das auch noch selber (besser) hin. So [...]