My homesickness begins traditionally today and keeps on growing until I go home for christmas. A set of feelings evoke in me, reminding to appreciate everyone and everything back home. Sure it...
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/12/finnish-saffron-cinnamon-buns.html
Not long ago declaired I how winter time had begun for me and how from now on it will be all about christmas and all that. I was wrong. Somehow I still have an eye and appetite for autumny thi...
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/12/too-much-sunshine.html
My passion for savoy cabbage continues and got to a whole new level with this gratin adapted from Orangette . It warmed both my heart and apartment on a chilly day, as it needed quite some tim...
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/12/theres-something-about-savoy-cabbage.html
There is a candy query going around the finnish food blogging world. To me this came from the lovely Bella Vanilla blog and I got a good reason to by candy... Salty Fishes and Chewy Blue...
I was really really nervous. All that talk about 'balancing fat with acid and protein JUST RIGHT' scared a beginner like me. Not forgetting the warnings and safety precautions of prepari...
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/11/not-just-piece-of-cake.html
This Sunday was a special one for me. I woke up and discovered the mountains outside my window all white and snowy; winter had arrived to Freiburg. Conveniently this happened the same day as t...
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/11/saying-good-bye-and-moving-forward.html
This Greek dish had been on my to do -list for a long time. I had just been waiting for the right occasion to make it. Nothing big, maybe just several friends coming together around one big rou...
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/11/just-little-something.html
Finland's answer to Oreos are Domino cookies. Dominos are as well known and classic in Finland as their American cousins are in their homeland. I find the taste of Oreos a bit deeper and someh...
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/11/on-how-to-deal-with-problem.html
The word gets me in such a good mood everytime I say it. I used to eat these for breakfast with lots of butter when I lived in London. I had actually forgotten the existance of crumpets until ...
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/11/crumpets-crumpets-crumpets-crumpets.html
Tämän reseptin myötä osallistun ensimmäistä kertaa kuukauden ruoka haasteeseen . Itseasiassa halusin osallistua jo lokakuussa mutta tuoreen kalan ja etenkin silakoiden löytäminen Etel�...
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/11/haasteruokaa-challenge-food.html
Please tell me when I start to bore you with my yoghurt obsession. It's just that these recipes seem to be haunting me and when something as brilliant as a Bircher Müsli Muffin catches my eye....
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/11/bircher-msli-muffins.html
My mother was visiting me for over a week and we ate out a lot. We ate typical german as well as italian and asian food, to name a few. We were both happy with everything Freiburg had to offer, e...
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/11/chantarelles-with-fettuccine-and.html
As soon as I saw that this recipe uses yoghurt, I knew I had to make it. Everything with yoghurt and quark and what they do to bread and food in general make me happy at the moment (new recipe...
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/11/plumcake-allo-yogurt.html
The victory of Obama was a good reason to make these soft and chewy PBJ cookies, for which I had been craving for a long time. The taste brought back childhood memories of peanut butter and jel...
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/11/peanut-butter-and-jelly-cookies.html
I have a memory of bread pudding from a cafe in Helsinki, where I ate it many years ago. I remember the cinnamon and the comforting taste of custard on a wintery day. Eating it was like wrappi...
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/11/second-appearance-of-brioche.html
I am already so used to getting fresh rolls on weekend mornings from the bakery downstairs, that as this Saturday, because of All Saint's day, it was exceptionally closed, I had to make my own ...
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/11/so-this-is-how-they-survived-before.html
As much as I like chocolate, 99 % chocolate is just too much chocolate. 85 % is the limit and still that is very strong to my taste. I'd been saving a 99 % chocolate bar, that I got for my 24t...
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/10/healthiest-mousse-au-chocolat-i-ever.html
For some reason I was craving the whole day for asparagus. Of course I was a bit late - or early with this craving and had to accept that it wasn't possible to find fresh asparagus anywhere. I ...
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/10/yes-yes-i-know-what-time-of-year-it-is.html
My friend Lena and I had been planning for a long time that one weekend we would cook together something delicious. Everytime we started to talk about what we would make, the plans became more ...
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/10/tea-and-sympathy-and-moroccan-cake.html
I had a cauliflower hanging around in my fridge. And everytime I opened the door, it would ask me, when and what I was going to be doing with it. I thought it's a nice piece of vegetable and it...
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/10/cauliflower-today-is-your-day.html
The creamy texture, the simplicity, it's light-yellow color, the crust, the ones without a crust, lemon, lime, sweet-yet fresh, sweet and sour, etc. German-style cheesecakes are often made usi...
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-love-cheesecakes.html
This onion pie or Zwiebelkuchen is a speciality from the area where I live, Baden-Württenberg. It is served especially in the autumn with Neuer Süsser (new wine) at farmer's markets, street ...
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/10/onion-pie-with-bacon-schwbischer.html
I wish I had a nice story to attach to this recipe. One like, my grandmother always used to make these when I was a kid, or something like, this was the only snack my father could make, so whe...
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/10/griess-schnitten-semolina-squares.html
It was a hectic week, but we made it! I did have time to cook and eat but not so much to write about it, so now I've got some catching up to do! Let's begin with something I picked up on my v...
http://crazyaboutbretzels.blogspot.com/2008/10/spinach-diaries-part-2.html
There are three things that first come to my mind, when I think of Switzerland: cheese fondue, the alps and bircher müsli. Mountains I can see from my window, cheese fondue I miss and bircher m�...