Food

Food…hmmm…I love food. I love eating and drinking as much as I like preparing and cooking food and I also love harvesting (preferably in my parents’ or grandma’s garden) and can’t wait to have a garden (or balcony or rooftop terrace) where I can grow my own.

I can spend hours browsing recipes online, for instance on this fantastic website, or turning the pages of different books on food or cooking to gain ideas & inspiration for future adventures in my kitchen.

Among the most useful books I claim Isabelle Allende’s “Aphrodite” because it so clearly shows how much food and sex, the two possibly most vital aspects of anybody’s life, have in common and why it is not totally impossible but highly inadvisable to seperate one from the other. Wonderful! I highly recommend reading, no, savouring it.

Here are a few lists (sic!) to give you an impression on what I esteem highly desirable including the how-tos (i.e. recipes) so we can share the pleasure:

Recipes

• Mushroom, bacon and walnut risotto
• Ingrid’s fantastic brownies (approval to be published pending)
• Sue’s carrot cake with lemon icing (as above) – link to recipe
• Double all-in-one chocolate cake – link to recipe
• Tiramisu – link to recipe
• Lemon cake of which I had plenty in Buenos Aires in 2006
• Jetta’s avocado cream – link to recipe
• Beef Bourguignon
• Isi’s Oma’s Feel Good Soup – link to recipe
• Jamie Oliver’s Cheesecake as adapted and hereby brought to perfection by my friend Jutta

My favourite foods

• see above and
• strawberries
• everything I harvested myself
• fresh spring rolls from the market in Luang Prabang, Laos
• green thai curry
• pad thai from any highly frequented street stall in Thailand
• all things Italian
• ice cream from Paolo Bortolotti in Vienna
• combination laksa from Dickson Asian Noodle House – Incredibly, the DANH has no website! At least it’s listed on the Lonely Planet webpage: click here
• whatever’s on a barbie
• Spanferkel
• a pie with the footie
• gambas al ajillo

My favourite drinks

• mango lassi
• LLB
• She Bites from Trinity Bar, Dickson (Australia) – click here (“Trinity favourites” – third from bottom)
• gin & tonic (with lemon and a slice of cucumber)
• Champagne or any sparkling wine really, preferably rosé