Jan 192012
 
Creamy Cabbage Soup

Wonderful soup for a cold winter’s day. Ingredients 1kg white cabbage 60 g butter 80 g bacon cubes (Speck cubes) 1 tbsp sugar, 1 tbsp caraway seeds 200 ml dry white wine 1 l vegetable broth 200 ml heavy cream 2-3 potatoes medium size salt, pepper 4 slices farmers bread or baguette bread 5 tbsp [read more...]

Dec 292011
 
Goulash Soup Silvester Soup

Goulash soup is a traditional soup for New years Eve, the night where people everywhere are celebrating the last hours of the old year. In Germany this evening is called “Silvesterabend”, and everyone throws a party with firework and a “midnight soup”.  The tradition is to serve a soup shortly after midnight, and in many cases [read more...]

Nov 102011
 
Vegetable Soup or Consommé

The word consommé is French and basically it is a clear soup made from richly flavored stock or bouillon that has been clarified usually through a fining process involving egg protein. Now what is the difference between a regular vegetable soup or “Eintopf” in German and a consommé? After the cooking time all ingredients will be [read more...]

Oct 112011
 
Black Forest Pumpkin Soup

Ingredients 1 kg pumpkin 2 potatoes 1 leek 2 tbsp ghee caraway seeds, coriander, pepper corns, 1 twig thyme 1 l vegetable broth 100 ml heavy cream parsley Cooking Instructions – peel potatoes, remove seeds from pumpkin; cut pumpkin and potatoes in small cubes; cut leek in small pieces as well – heat ghee and add [read more...]