Erdbeerlikör, Basilikum-Olivenöl & HolunderblütenessigStrawberry Liquor, Basil Olive Oil & Elderflower Vinegar

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These beauties are my latest experiments.

Strawberry Liquor, Basil Olive Oil & Elderflower Vinegar

 This is the first time I’ve mixed them up. But I’m sure,  they will turn out great. Because how shouldn’t liquor, oil and vinegar with these ingredients turn out great?!

I’ve made liquor before. With elderflower or peaches. I made the elderflower one this year again. It’s perfect. So if you can still lay you hands on elderflowers, pick them immediately and make something special! We wanted to make even more, but the season here is already over.

 

Strawberry Liquor, Basil Olive Oil & Elderflower Vinegar

But so has the season of strawberries and basil begun.

Yesterday we went picking strawberries on a huge field. The fruits were delicious and we bought over 2 kilos for 6,50 Euros.

After coming home, I dived into the kitchen, ready to make jam and liquor. What a feast!

And so I’m looking forward to the raspberry season in 3-4 weeks. I can’t wait for them and even more jam!

Strawberry Liquor, Basil Olive Oil & Elderflower Vinegar

Vor einem Jahr: Zitronen-Rosmarin-Kekse

Strawberry Liquor, Basil Olive Oil & Elderflower Vinegar

These beauties are my latest experiments.  

Strawberry Liquor, Basil Olive Oil & Elderflower Vinegar

This is the first time I’ve mixed them up. But I’m sure,  they will turn out great. Because how shouldn’t liquor, oil and vinegar with these ingredients turn out great?! I’ve made liquor before. With elderflower or peaches. I made the elderflower one this year again. It’s perfect. So if you can still lay you hands on elderflowers, pick them immediately and make something special! We wanted to make even more, but the season here is already over.  

Strawberry Liquor, Basil Olive Oil & Elderflower Vinegar

But so has the season of strawberries and basil begun. Yesterday we went picking strawberries on a huge field. The fruits were delicious and we bought over 2 kilos for 6,50 Euros. After coming home, I dived into the kitchen, ready to make jam and liquor. What a feast! And so I’m looking forward to the raspberry season in 3-4 weeks. I can’t wait for them and even more jam!  

Strawberry Liquor, Basil Olive Oil & Elderflower Vinegar

One year ago: Lemon-Rosemary-Cookies

Strawberry Liquor, Basil Olive Oil & Elderflower Vinegar

Eierlikör & LebkuchenEggnog & Gingerbread

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Last week I told you about some Christmas gifts I will make. Today I present you two of them. I highly recommend both. Either as a gift or just for yourself. Both recipes are made in no time and are very easy.

Eggnog & Gingerbread

 Although I bake and cook almost everything myself, I never made gingerbread or lebkuchen, as we call them in German (gingerbread is confusing for me, as the lebkuchen doesn’t contain any ginger…). I come from the lebkuchen city of Nürnberg, so I know the very good ones from the lebkuchen bakeries (not the cheap ones from the supermarkets) and I never had the guts to bake them myself. But then two things happened.

First I didn’t had the chance to buy or eat any lebkuchen from home, since there was no opportunity to be there. Second I bought a really wonderful book (sorry for all the English speakers). The book contains so many recipes for Christmas gifts (or gifts at all), Christmas cookies and even recipes for your Christmas dinner. It was love at first sight! There I discovered a lebkuchen recipe. They looked really good. A smaller version of my beloved ones from home. So I gave them a try. They are just perfect. No need to buy them anymore (ok, except the really good ones from the bakery). They are even better with chocolate icing. Or sugar icing. And they get better from day to day. It’s actually recommended, that you prepare them 1 to 2 weeks ahead. But then, you have to be careful, that you have some left for the gifts on Christmas.

Eggnog & Gingerbread

 It’s almost a tradition to make eggnog, as a gift for my grandmother for Christmas. There are not many things, that a 90-year-old-woman desires. But we all know she loves eggnog, so at least my aunt and me are giving eggnog as a gift to her. This year I tried a new recipe (which I also adapted from the book, I recommended above). And it is a hit! It balances perfect between the sweetness, the vanilla and the alcohol. It’s not too thick and not to thin. Just the right consistency. There is no sharpness of the alcohol in this eggnog. This is how I love it. I used normal corn schnapps, instead of the high-proof alcohol, listed in the recipe. With the right amount of the other ingredients, this was the key of the perfect eggnog.

Give your beloved ones a treat with those wonderful gifts or at least yourself and your family.

Happy baking!

Eggnog & Gingerbread

Last week I told you about some Christmas gifts I will make. Today I present you two of them. I highly recommend both. Either as a gift or just for yourself. Both recipes are made in no time and are very easy.

Eggnog & Gingerbread

 Although I bake and cook almost everything myself, I never made gingerbread or lebkuchen, as we call them in German (gingerbread is confusing for me, as the lebkuchen doesn’t contain any ginger…). I come from the lebkuchen city of Nürnberg, so I know the very good ones from the lebkuchen bakeries (not the cheap ones from the supermarkets) and I never had the guts to bake them myself. But then two things happened.

First I didn’t had the chance to buy or eat any lebkuchen from home, since there was no opportunity to be there. Second I bought a really wonderful book (sorry for all the English speakers). The book contains so many recipes for Christmas gifts (or gifts at all), Christmas cookies and even recipes for your Christmas dinner. It was love at first sight! There I discovered a lebkuchen recipe. They looked really good. A smaller version of my beloved ones from home. So I gave them a try. They are just perfect. No need to buy them anymore (ok, except the really good ones from the bakery). They are even better with chocolate icing. Or sugar icing. And they get better from day to day. It’s actually recommended, that you prepare them 1 to 2 weeks ahead. But then, you have to be careful, that you have some left for the gifts on Christmas.

Eggnog & Gingerbread

 It’s almost a tradition to make eggnog, as a gift for my grandmother for Christmas. There are not many things, that a 90-year-old-woman desires. But we all know she loves eggnog, so at least my aunt and me are giving eggnog as a gift to her. This year I tried a new recipe (which I also adapted from the book, I recommended above). And it is a hit! It balances perfect between the sweetness, the vanilla and the alcohol. It’s not too thick and not to thin. Just the right consistency. There is no sharpness of the alcohol in this eggnog. This is how I love it. I used normal corn schnapps, instead of the high-proof alcohol, listed in the recipe. With the right amount of the other ingredients, this was the key of the perfect eggnog.

Give your beloved ones a treat with those wonderful gifts or at least yourself and your family.

Happy baking!

 

Eggnog & Gingerbread