Green Asparagus with tofu and mashed white beans

Hello everybody, hallo zusammen,

Springtime is asparagus time - yeah! I love it, when the fresh green and white asparagus spears are finally available in the supermarket and the blogs and cooking magazines fill up with asparagus recipes. It so happens, that today's recipe is actually inspired by the current frisch gekocht (freshly cooked) magazine where they combined white asparagus with mashed beans, bacon and hazelnuts. As David is vegetarian and we therefore only cook meat-free at home I made a vegetarian version and replaced the bacon with tofu and the hazelnuts with a delicious mix of roasted pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds and soy beans. But see for yourself... 

Frühling ist Spargelzeit - juhu! Ich freu mich immer riesig, wenn es endlich die grünen und weißen Spargelstangen zu kaufen gibt und sich die Blogs und Zeitschriften mit Spargelrezepten füllen. So kommt es auch, dass das heutige Rezept vom neuen frisch gekocht-Magazin inspiriert ist, wo weißer Spargel mit Bohnenpüree, Speck und Haselnüssen kombiniert wird. Da David Vegetarier ist und wir dementsprechend zu Hause nur fleischfrei kochen, habe ich das Rezept allerdings etwas abgewandelt und eine vegetarische Version gezaubert, mit Tofu statt Speck und einem herrlichen Salatkerne-Mix anstatt der Haselnüsse. Aber seht selbst...

Graz Again

Hello together, hallo zusammen,

you might already know that I am a huge Graz lover (and Katja liked it very much too)! Two weeks ago, David and I finally found the time to go there again to visit his dad and his wonderful grandma. It was really, really lovely, also because we were really lucky with the weather and spent almost all the time outside. We also detected some really nice stores and places, which I'm sharing with you below. :)

manche von euch haben sicher schon mitbekommen, dass ich ein riesiger Graz-Fan bin (Katja mochte es übrigens auch sehr gern)! In der Woche nach Ostern haben David und ich endlich mal wieder die Zeit gefunden runterzufahren um seinen Papa und seine wunderbare Oma zu besuchen. Es war wirklich wunderbar, auch deshalb weil wir richtig Glück mit dem Wetter hatten und fast die ganze Zeit nur draußen verbracht haben. Außerdem haben wir auch ein paar richtig nette Läden und Plätze entdeckt, die ich unten mit euch teile. :)

Wild Garlic Bread

Hey Gang,

today I got something delicious for you: a recipe for wild garlic bread with fresh wild garlic directly out of the woods. Yummy! I made it for the first time (my lovely classmate Katharina shared her recipe with me) and it worked out immediately. Crusty on the outside, super fluffy on the inside, combined with butter and wild garlic - simply great! :)

heute habe ich wieder was Leckeres für euch: ein Rezept für Bärlauch-Zupfbrot mit frischem Bärlauch direkt aus dem Wald. Yummy! Ich habe das Brot zum ersten Mal gebacken (meine liebe Unikollegin Katharina hat ihr Rezept mit mir geteilt) und es hat eigentlich sofort geklappt. Außen knusprig, innen total fluffy und dann auch noch kombiniert mit Butter und Bärlauch - ziemlich großartig muss ich sagen! :)

Easter in Black and White

Hi folks, hallo zusammen,

On Sunday I spent the most lovely Easter Sunday with my family in St. Pölten. Luckily the weather was fine enough, so that I could finally parade my new dress and shoes. ;) When the sun came out in the afternoon, my sister and I took the chance to steal away from the family table after our family brunch (wow, I really ate tons and tons of delicious food :D ) and snapped a few pictures for the blog in front of my mum's gorgeous forsythia.

am Sonntag hatte ich den wunderbarsten Ostersonntag mit meiner Familie in St. Pölten - inklusive Brunch mit Tonnen an großartigem Essen. Glücklicherweise war das Wetter gut genug, dass ich endlich mal mein neues Kleid und meine neuen Schuhe ausführen konnte. ;) Am Nachmittag hat sich dann sogar auch noch die Sonne hinter ihrer Wolkendecke hervorgekämpft und meine Schwester und ich haben die Zeit genutzt uns kurz vom Familientisch davonzustehlen, um ein paar Fotos für den Blog zu machen. Das im Hintergrund ist übrigens der Hammer-Forsythienstrauch im Garten meiner Mutter... 

Origami Easter Bunnies

 
Hey folks, hallo zusammen,

can you believe that Easter is already in two weeks? This year's first months passed extremely fast in my opinion!
As always there will be a big Easter lunch at my mum's house on Easter Sunday and as always I'll be responsible for the table decoration. Last year I made origami chickens, this year I decided to go for Easter bunnies. As you already know, I really like to work with old newspapers (proof here and here), so this is what I did here as well.

könnt ihr glauben, dass in zwei Wochen schon wieder Ostern ist? Ich finde, die ersten paar Monate diesen Jahres sind extrem schnell vergangen!
Wie jedes Jahr findet auch heuer wieder ein großes Osteressen bei meiner Mama zu Hause statt und wie immer bin ich auch diesmal für die Tischdekoration zuständig. Letztes Jahr habe ich Origami-Hühner gebastelt, diesmal habe ich mich für Osterhasen entschieden. Und weil ich so gern mit altem Zeitungspapier arbeite (Beweise hier und hier), habe ich auch diesmal darauf zurückgegriffen.

Spring Food: Asparagus Quiche with Tomatoes and Mozzarella

Hello everybody,

I hope you enjoy such a lovely Sunday as I do! The sun is shining beautifully in Vienna and I've spent most of the day reading. I finished Kristopher Jansma's wonderful book "The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards" today and can really recommend it, if anyone is in search of a good read. :)
Of course beautiful spring days also deserve delicious spring food! That's why I'll share a recipe for a very tasty asparagus quiche with tomatoes and mozzarella today. Yummy! 

What you'll need...

...for the dough

• 100g butter
• 250g flour
• 1 egg
• a pinch of salt
• a little water

...for the filling

• ca. 350g green asparagus
• 3 tomatoes
• 125g mozzarella
• a handful of fresh basil
• 2 eggs
• 50g cream
• 125 ml milk
• 1 tablespoon crème fraîche
• 50g grated parmesan
• salt
• pepper
• nutmeg 

How it works

For the dough combine the flour with the butter and rub between your fingers until the mixture becomes crumbly. Then add the salt, the egg and the water and knead the mixture into a ball of short pastry. Put the dough into the fridge and let it rest for an hour.

In the meantime wash the asparagus and cut it into 2 to 3 cm long pieces. Blanch them for about 3 minutes. Cut the tomatoes crosswise, blanch them in boiling water for one minute and peel them. Then cut them into cubes. Do the same with the mozzarella and cut the basil into small pieces.

Stir the eggs with the cream, the milk, the crème fraîche and the parmesan and flavour with salt, pepper and nutmeg. 

Preheat the oven to 170° C. Roll the pastry and line the baking pan with it (as I don't have an actual quiche dish I used a regular baking dish and that worked just as well). Prick several times with a fork and bake the dough for 10 minutes.
Take out the dough and fill it with the asparagus, the tomatoes, the mozzarella and the basil. Pour the egg-milk-cream-mixture over the vegetables.

Put some aluminium foil on the baking dish and bake the quiche for 30 minutes. Then remove the foil and continue to bake for another 15 to 20 minutes until the quiche becomes golden brown. Take out the quiche and let it cool down for 5 minutes. Enjoy!! :)

Have a wonderful Sunday!

Yours,
Tulip

PS: Music while writing this post: Comedian Harmonists "Wochenend und Sonnenschein" ("Weekend and Sunshine")

Sunday Sun

Hi there,

do you remember this post here? Last Sunday David and I went to the Steinhof-Gründe again and let me tell you, at spring they are even greater than in Autumn (especially if it's that warm and sunny as last Sunday)... :) This time we entered and left from the other side of the grounds and passed by the Otto-Wagner-Kirche, a beautiful Jugendstil church built form 1904 to 1907 after the plans by architect Otto Wagner.  

 

 dress: Mela Loves London | coat: velibor | leggings: H&M | headband: muka va | 

ballerinas: Marc by Marc Jacobs | sun glasses: Cheap Monday | necklace: vintage | 

picnic basket: vintage 

All images by Stefanie Reichl/David Auer

Spring Is Coming

Hello everybody,

I almost cannot believe it but this is already our 100th post on this little blog! We hope you still enjoy it as much as we do! :)
As Katja already mentioned in her last post spring is finally coming to Austria! The perfect reason for me to get out my spring clothes of my wardrobe and put together a little outfit in springlike, sorbet colours.

 

 

 

 dress: ZUZA | cardigan: H&M | tights: Calzedonia | flats: Lazzarini |

necklace: MANGO

All images by Katja Borlein