Christmas Menu

Meat broth and last course can be easily prepared – everything else together makes little effort on the feast day. Our tip: Use bacon with a fine, smoky note!

Pastissada De Caval, Horse Ragout – Veneto

Pasta dishes are always a good idea! According to legend, after his victory over Odoacer, the Goth king Theodoric ordered to kill all the horses of the enemy on the battlefield. The population of Verona was suddenly faced with a huge mass of horse meat that had to be processed on the spot. This is … Read more

Cabinet Pudding

For the cabinet pudding, cut leftover sponge cake into cubes, fill up to three quarters in a greased mold sprinkled with powdered sugar. Whisk the egg yolks, whole eggs, powdered sugar, vanilla sugar, milk and Grand Manier well and empty over the leftover cake. Allow to set in a bain-marie in the oven at 140 … Read more

Carrot Sauce

For the carrot sauce, chop the carrots and onion. Sauté in oil or possibly clarified butter. Finely chop the parsley, add to the carrots with the wine and whipping cream and bring to the boil. Simmer everything together slightly. Roast the dill and caraway seeds in a dry frying pan, crush them in a mortar … Read more

Swiss Sausage Salad with Garden Herbs

For the Swiss Sausage Salad with Garden Herbs, first skin the sausage, halve it lengthwise and cut into narrow slices. Cut cheese and cucumbers into strips. Rinse kitchen herbs, shake dry. Chop parsley, roll chives and cut cress from the bed. Clean, rinse and slice radishes. Mix everything with sausage, cheese and cucumber. For the … Read more

Bergens Fiskesuppe, Bergen Fish Soup

Chop the onions. Cut carrots, potatoes and celery root into small cubes, leek and celery stalk into thin slices and cook in fish broth for about 12 minutes. Sprinkle the prepared, washed and boned fish with juice of one lemon, season with salt, cut into pieces and add to the vegetables in the fish broth … Read more

Cream of Zucchini Soup with Baked Rice Gnocchi

For the cream of zucchini soup with baked rice dumplings, cook the rice according to package directions until tender, strain and let cool. Cut the young onions into rings, dice the zucchini. Heat the butter in a pot and sauté the onions first. Add the zucchini and sauté. Deglaze with lemon juice. Add 3/4 l … Read more

Roast Chicken

Cut chicken into eight pieces and rinse. Melt butter in a larger saucepan, add weighed onion, finely chopped fresh cucumber, zucchini, yellow beet and celery, season with salt, season with pepper and add bay leaf seasoning until golden brown. Half-cook chicken in enough water to cover, add long-grain rice, cover and cook everything together until … Read more

Rye Roll

Finely grind the rye. Stir sourdough with water and mix with crumbled yeast in the wide bowl of the food processor. Add 250 g of whole rye flour and mix well. Let the dough rise in the bowl with the lid closed. 1st rest of dough: 12 hours (preferably for one night). Then stir in … Read more

Braised Okra, Okra Salad

Cut off the stalks and blossoms from the okra. Heat the oil in a large frying pan and briefly brown the coarsely chopped garlic cloves. Add okra, pepper and salt and brown for ten minutes, stirring carefully. Cut off tomatoes, form over them and cover for ten minutes. Chop coriander leaves and sprinkle over the … Read more