Fast and easy homemade bread with baking powder - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients:

• 280 grams of flour
• 250 grams of yoghurt
• 10 grams of baking powder
• 1 egg
• half of a teaspoon with sugar
• salt 

Mix the flour with the baking powder.

Add the yoghurt, the egg, the salt and the sugar and mix, first the liquid ingredients and then incorporating slowly the flour.

Make a sticky dough and put it in the oven at 180 Celsius degrees for 45-50 minutes or until ready.

It keeps fresh for a few days ...if you can refrain from eating it right away!

Enjoy!

The original recipe can be found here

2015 Easter market at Beaufort Castle, Luxembourg

Very small, but lively. Unfortunately, it was a rainy day, so we did not spend a lot of time there.

Trip to Corciano, Italy

Nice little village 10 minute drive outside Perugia.

Spring is here!

...and in our garden too :)

 

Foret Noire - second recipe (including photos)

Ingredients for one layer (you need to bake two layers):

• 2 eggs
• 50 grams of sugar
• 20 grams of almond powder
• 20 grams of flour
• 2 spoons with cocoa powder
• salt

Separate the egg yolks from the whites.

Beat the egg yolks with half of the sugar and the egg whites with the remaining sugar.

Mix the egg whites with the egg yolks, the cocoa powder, the almond powder, the flour and the salt.

Bake the layer at 180 Celsius degrees for 11-13 minutes.

Ingredients for the filling:

• 500 grams of sour cherry jelly (we buy it as "kirschgrütze" in Germany)
• 700 grams of cream

After the layers have cooled down, assembly the cake on a plate.

Add one layer then add the cherry jelly, then half of the cream.

Add another layer and on top add the remaining cream. You can decorate with grated chocolate and some sour cherries.

Enjoy!

A glimpse of the 2015 solar eclipse in Luxembourg

Although the weather wasn´t perfect for the event, we managed to see ... something :)

2015 Solar eclipse in Luxembourg

As you already know, this Friday at 09:46 AM we can admire, if the sky will allow us, a beautiful solar eclipse.

So, prepare the special glasses and hope for a nice, sunny sky.

More info can be found on the NASA official site

Pork roulade stuffed with garlic and bell pepper sauce - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of pork meat
• 7 pieces of bacon
• 4-5 cloves of garlic
• 4 spoons with bell pepper sauce
• 2 spoons with olive oil
• thyme
• pepper
• salt

For the outside seasoning you need:

• 2 spoons with olive oil
• 3 spoons with bell pepper sauce
• thyme
• salt 
• pepper

Clean and cut the meat, then spread it in a medium sized thick layer. Mix the chopped garlic, the bell pepper sauce, the thyme, the olive oil, the salt and the pepper and add it over the pork meat.

Roll it and above add the bacon. Fix it with some wooden skewers / toothpicks.

Put it in the fridge for 1 night .

The next day put the roulade in an oven tray covered with aluminum foil.
Add another aluminum foil over the roulade and put it in the oven at 180 Celsius degrees for 1 hour.

Meanwhile prepare the seasoning sauce by mixing the olive oil with the bell pepper sauce, the salt, the thyme and the pepper.  After 1 hour take out the roulade, uncover it and pour a few spoons of this composition over the meat.

Put it back in the oven this time uncovered for another hour. Every 15 minutes repeat the operation and pour some seasoning above the meat, to keep it juicy and tasty.

You can serve it with mashed potatoes or potatoes in the oven with rosemary.

Enjoy!