From crazy rain to chicken soup It was raining. Not just a drizzle, not even just a steady rain, but a proper downpour. The type where you get soaked within a minute and the water cannot get away quickly enough, so that the streets turn into rivers. It was my last day in Kuala Lumpur … Continue reading Spicy Chicken Soup
A well-traveled lemon tree When I moved from Berlin to Vienna around two years ago and started looking for an apartment, I really was not sure where I would end up. I had only been to the city once, several years earlier. So I had no idea which parts of the city were nice, in … Continue reading Ricotta, Lemon and Almond Cake
A change from traditional food What do you think about when you think about food in the Czech Republic? Personally, every time I have been to the country I had visited traditional restaurants. The sort of restaurants serving hearty food, often a lot of meat and sauces paired with a delicious beer. And I do … Continue reading Black Garlic Aioli with Mushrooms and Rösti
Catalan springWhen we got out of the car, the smell of woodfire and barbecue welcomed us. The sky was blue without any visible cloud, and the sun was warm for a February day. The source of the barbecue smell was the restaurant we were heading to for lunch. We were in the hills that surround … Continue reading Leek and roasted tomato risotto
Moving, once again The past months have certainly not been boring for me. After four years in Berlin, I felt like it was time to move on. So a period of reading lots of job adds, replying to some, and doing video-interviews followed. Thankfully it did not take too long before an opportunity came along: … Continue reading Roast of sweet potato, chickpeas and chicken
VolcanoAlready from Reykjavik you could see the smoke column coming out of the volcano. That made me even more excited to actually go and see the eruption. So as soon as I was out of Corona quarantine and had picked up my car, I took off towards the volcano through the geothermal landscape around Iceland's … Continue reading Almond, date and chocolate cookies (gluten-free)
Baking and bakeries There are two things that come to my mind immediately when I think about Germany and food. One of those is the type of food you can find in the breweries and traditional restaurants: often a lot of pork meat, potato or bread dumplings, sausages... Basically all those dishes that are heavy … Continue reading Blueberry Banana Cake
Changes This is one of those periods in life with a lot of changes. New job, new house, new city, new country, new people... End of September I returned to Europe from Canada. After visiting some friends and spending two great months with my parents I went to Berlin for a job interview. It ended … Continue reading Oven roasted sweet potato
Into the wilderness Waking up on the backseat of my rental car, I felt pretty cold. Even thermo clothes and my sleeping bag couldn´t hide this. But when I sat up straight the view from the windows was quite spectacular. The night before I had parked on top of a large hill with a view … Continue reading Beetroot risotto with goat cheese
In the centre of Canada The sky seems to be endless. And underneath the blue sky, which is broken up by ribbons of clouds, the wheat and canola fields are stretching out as far as the eye can see, seemingly going on till infinity. This is the centre of Canada. I am on my way from … Continue reading Watermelon salad
The roaming chilli 