I’ve always been one to experiment with colors. I think they improve everything. Growing up with white walls in our house, I pleaded for yellow. Born with brown hair, I’ve dyed it every color under the rainbow. And I’ve been known to experiment with the color of my food on more than one occasion.
When I [...]
Going to the Turkish market on Friday evening is a sure way to get a huge pile of veggies for just a little bit of cash. As the day ends, there’s a surplus of one thing or another, and the vendors would rather sell it off than haul it home. If you wait until closing [...]
Last week, as I was buying the ingredients for my rye bread, I saw a little packet of dried organic orange peel for sale. I think it cost around 2.50 Euro, which isn’t all that bad. A little orange peel goes a long way, right?
Then I started thinking about it. How long has that orange [...]
Sunday afternoon in Berlin. It becomes a social dead zone the minute the weather turns chilly. You wake up after a Saturday night out, and know that your friends are probably just crawling out of bed as well, rubbing the sleep out of their eyes. The shops are all closed. Without nice weather, there’s really [...]
The weather here has suddenly turned cold and wintery, and I, in turn, have started cooking as if my life depended on it. In the last week I’ve made roasted corn salad, corn bread, and brownies in mass quantities, all now stocked away in my freezer. Except for the corn salad. That only lasted a [...]
You know a loaf of bread is going to be good when you can’t stop licking the dough off your fingers. At least, you do when you’re baking with normal flour. With gluten-free I’m never quite so sure. With traditional bread I could tell by the feel of the dough in my hands if it [...]
I stumbled upon this recipe for flax bread in a low-carb forum, and I’ve been addicted to it ever since. It’s as simple to make as an omelet (in fact, maybe simpler), absolutely delicious, and endlessly variable. I’ve made it into a sweet “nut-bread” style snack with the addition of some sweetner and cinnamon. I’ve [...]
Yesterday, as if mandated by some sort of genetic coding, I found myself unconsciously mimicking my grandmother, frying sliced eggplant in an olive-oil filled pan. It must be genetics, because I never fry eggplant in olive oil. I steam it, cube it, bake it – but I can never bring myself to add oil to [...]
Every time I tell someone that I can’t eat gluten, I get a similar response: “Oh my god! What DO you eat?”
Once, this conversation occurred while I was grocery shopping with a friend. I’d just told him that I’d have to skip the breakfast roll he was about to grab for me. Feeling guilty, he [...]
It’s becoming tradition that every year I make my flatmate a cheesecake for his birthday. This makes me happy for a number of reasons. First of all, because it gives me an excuse to bake. But more importantly, it made me realize that I’ve been here long enough to start establishing traditions. I have less [...]
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