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It’s asparagus time. And my veggie box brought me a big bunch of this lovely spring vegetable. Let’s have a look at what I did with it. (Deutsche Version.)

I only need asparagus once and then I’m ok again for a year. But when I eat it, I like it pure and simple. Because I want to taste the asparagus itself.
So, I cooked it in the oven. For a lot of asparagus flavour.

Peel if necessary, wrap it in foil with a bit of olive oil and bake it at high heat until it’s done.

And with it, I like a fried egg.

For me, sunny-side down, please.

And potatoes with that.

Classical, simple and absolutely great.

But another lovely dish to make with asparagus is Asparagus Risotto.

I suppose you already have a recipe for risotto? Just throw your asparagus in.

And when it’s done, grate some Parmesan on top – If you want. (And I want!)

Also simple, yummy and perfect for a nice dinner.

This is food in spring after my fancy. I hope it’s after yours too!

It’s really chocolatey, not too sweet and simply good. Let’s kill some chocolate bunnies! (Deutsche Version.)

This looks like a bunny massacre. But believe me, it’s for a good cause. What happens to most of the chocolate is this:

And who doesn’t love melted chocolate?

For this really moist chocolate cake, you need:

150 g milk chocolate, melted
100 g milk chocolate, chopped
3 eggs
120 g sugar
1 sachet vanilla sugar
100 g butter (or margarine)
200 g flour – but after weighing put 2 tablespoons flour back and replace it with
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 heaped teaspoon baking powder
150 ml milk
1 teaspoon rum

Preheat your oven to 180° C / 360° F.
First, beat the eggs with sugar and butter until creamy. Add the chopped chocolate. Stir the rum in the milk and mix the flour with the cocoa and the baking powder. In turns, stir both mixtures in. Finally, stir in the melted chocolate. And that’s it! Fill the dough in your cake tin and bake it for about 1 hour.

Let it cool and then turn it out. Dust it with powdered sugar.

You could also cover it with chocolate frosting – But for me, that would be too much.

Tell your parents you killed bunnies for them. Bring them this great and moist chocolate cake. Have a piece with coffee. Enjoy.

It’s a black lamb with great poppy seed filling. You could also use white filling. Or no filling. It looks great any way. And it’s so easy to make! (Deutsche Version.)

First, you need some yeast dough – I love my recipe from home, you can find it here.

While the dough is rising, you can prepare the filling. Here you can find the best poppy seed filling I know.

When the dough is ready, roll it out – It should be a very long, but thin rectangle. But before you fill it, cut off some dough for the lamb’s head and feet. And you need 2 raisins for its eyes.

Now, you can fill the dough and roll it in.

And then, cut it. All little poppy seed buns should be about the same size.

And with those poppy seed buns, make a lamb! A little, lovely, pretty black lamb.

Preheat your oven to 170° C / 340° F and bake your lamb for about 25 minutes. When it’s nicely browned, take it out.

Don’t hesitate eating your cute lamb – It’s an animal-friendly easter feast! Enjoy!

The veggie patty is made from unripe spelt grain and the burger contains lots of veggies. It’s really good! (Deutsche Version.)

For the patty, you need:

1 onion
1 clove of garlic
1 large carrot, grated
125 g unripe spelt grain, coarsely grinded
125 ml milk
2 tablespoons ground almonds
1 tablespoon curd cheese
1 egg
herbal salt, pepper, olive oil
(adapted from “Papa Löwes Kochbuch”)

Chop the onion and the garlic and sweat it in olive oil. Then, add the carrot and roast it a bit. Add the unripe spelt grain and the milk. Let it cook at small heat until the mass gets quite dry. Then, put the pot off the heat, add the ground almonds, the curd cheese and the egg. Stir and season well.

With wet hands, shape 4-6 patties and put them in the pre-heated oven at 200° C / 470° F. It takes about half an hour, flip them in between.

They’re yummy just like this, but when you want to have a burger, you need cheese and vegetables.

I took feta, field salad, radish, …

…cucumber and tomatoes.

Lots and lots of veggies for my veggie burger. Now: Bite in!

It’s a very, very thin and crispy pizza with a unbelievably tasty topping. Let’s bake! (Deutsche Version.)

When I had chard in my veggie box I get every two weeks (Again, thank you so, so much, Mum and Dad!) again, I didn’t know what to do with it. I have already cooked chard curry and chard risotto. Then I got a hint: Chard tastes great on pizza. Really? That was worth the try.

I love pizza with a thin crust. If you have another recipe, just use that – But I think the thin crust fits perfectly with the topping.
For my dough, you need
200 g flour
130 ml water
5 g yeast
1 tablespoon olive oil

I hope you know how to make yeast dough. When it’s ready, roll it out very thin.

And for the topping, you need (already in the right order)
a bit of sour cream
300 g chard, washed, cut in slices and boiled in salted water
1 onion
1 sourly apple
90 g mozzarella
oregano, thyme, salt and pepper

Of course, you can use more or less of those ingredients or vary in your choice of cheese. Do as you like. When you’re done with the topping, bake the pizza at 250° C / 480° F in a preheated oven. For about15 minutes, but you’ll see if it’s enough.

And then, enjoy! Believe me, it’s awesome.

They are soft and melting inside. This dessert is chocolatey, it’s yummy and it’s best with spicy orange sauce and vanilla ice cream. (Deutsche Version.)

And it’s my entry to the Appliances Online daring desserts competition, check out the other entries on Handle the Heat.

(Adapted from this original recipe.)
For 2 mini-cakes, you need:

50 g butter
50 g chocolate (I take about 40 g dark chocolate and 10 g milk chocolate)
1 egg
1 egg yolk
60 g sugar
50 g flour
cocoa powder and butter for the ramekins

Butter and powder two ramekins with cocoa. I also cut out two pieces of parchment paper to put on the bottom of the ramekins – I wanted to be absolutely sure I can turn out the cakes.

Melt the butter and the chocolate and let it cool for about 10 minutes.
Beat the egg, egg yolk and sugar and mix it with the chocolate butter. At last, stir in the flour.

Fill the dough into the ramekins.

Now here comes the trick to be (hopefully) absolutely sure the inside of the mini-cake is melting. Freeze it.
I put them in the freezer over night and took it out just minutes before baking.

Preheat the oven to 160° C / 320° F. Put the mini-cakes in and watch them. The surface has to bulge a bit, the outside has to be baked through and a bit crispy and the inside has to be runny. It takes about 15 minutes, maybe a bit more.

And as already said, they’re best with a spicy orange sauce and vanilla ice cream.

For the Spicy Orange Sauce,
take 3 oranges and fillet them. (But don’t spill the juice!)

Caramelise about 50 g sugar, deglaze it with 50 ml white wine and let it cook. Put in the orange juice, a cinnamon stick and some cloves. (And gingerbread spice-mix, if you want.) Let it cook again and put in a teaspoon starch flour. Put the orange filets in and let it cool.

That’s it! And oh, this dessert is going to be yummy. Enjoy those lovely melting chocolate mini-cakes with your loved ones. They’ll love it.

They’re not only fun to make, they also taste delicious. (Deutsche Version.)

Of course, you need a savoy cabbage. But don’t cut it, just break off 6 large outer leaves to use for making packets for 2 servings. With the rest, do whatever you want. I love to just cook it.

In a large pot, bring water with some salt to boil. Add the leaves to the boiling water and cook them for 1 minute. Take them out and rinse them with cold water.

Then, you need:

olive oil
1 onion
1 garlic clove
50 g bulgur
50 g red lentils
about 200 ml vegetable broth
80 g feta cheese
1 teaspoon thyme
salt, pepper, nutmeg

(makes 2 servings)

Chop the onion and the garlic clove and sweat them in olive oil. Add bulgur and broth. After 2 minutes, add red lentils. Let simmer until lentils and bulgur are soft. Then, turn of the heat and crumble in the feta cheese. Add spices to taste. Stir well.

Now you can fill your savoy packets! Fun part!

Cut out the hard part of each leave, put some filling in and make a packet. Fix with toothpicks.

And then, put all of your packets in a buttered or oiled casserole. If you want, put some flakes of butter on top.

Put it in the oven at 170° C / 340° F for 30 minutes.

In the meantime, you could prepare a nice field salad …

… or make a yummy tomato sauce to go with your packets.

When your packets are done, put some grated Parmesan on top. And then enjoy the lovely melting filling.

I’m still not sure if those are really the right ones. But almost. (Deutsche Version.)

Anyway, picking out photos is great. I love to go over my whole year in an hour. I always have to laugh because I remember so many things I almost forgot. They are not the best ones, but the ones that I love because they are connected to great memories. The first one is connected to great parties and concerts. And here is the rest.

I think it was the first thing I baked in 2011. A poppy seed strudel. Everytime I see this photo, I really really want to make it again.

I found out that baking bread is addictive.

I went to Amsterdam and I had fun.

I still love the cat’s paws so much.

Mum and I had so much great time in Hamburg.

And I made my first layer cake, a black forest cake, for her birthday.

After that, I went to Stockholm. It is pretty.

And after all that sightseeing, I made a rest in Berlin.

After summer, I got my own kitchen and now I can cook everything I want. Like Chickpea Pot. Yummy.

That’s my 2011 in fast-forward.

As I have already mentioned last year, Violets and Cardamom and onepinkmacaroon have nominated me for two different blog awards. Thank you so much! The first one is the Versatile Blogger Award. Here, I now have to 1) thank the person who nominated me and link back to them in my post; and 2) share 7 things about myself and 3) pass the award on to 15 more bloggers that I enjoy.
The other one is the Liebster Blog Award(from German Liebster = sweetest, kindest, nicest, dearest, …), given to up coming bloggers who have less than 200 followers. Here, I have to  1) thank my Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog, 2) link back to the blogger who awarded me, 3) copy & paste the blog award on my blog and 4) reveal my 5 blog picks.

Well, I guess my ten photos are enough to say 7 things about myself. And now I’ll just mix both awards up and give you 10 of my favourite bloggers. Alright? (Don’t be upset if some already have a lot of followers, I don’t really have that much English blogs on my list and don’t really know the little ones.)
So please have a look at these blogs, they’re always enjoyable!

1. Food Is My Life

2. Wee eats

3. IamSimplyTia

4. Eat Now Talk Later

5. My Lucky Town

6. Pretty Pretty Yum Yum

7. The SGK

8. Delicious Days

9. Healthy. Delicious.

10. kiss my spatula

Dear nominees, you don’t have to comment or pass the award on, if you don’t want to. It’s just me telling you I like your blog.

I will see some friends this evening. But right now, I’m still sitting here with hair curlers and preparing myself mentally to go out. It’s so loud out there.

I’ll bring bread and Lucky Piglets.

Just have as much fun as you would have if it wasn’t New Year’s Eve. See your friends. See your family. Do that the whole year. Change your life tomorrow it you want to. And if you want to change it in the middle of June, do that then.