pasta casserole recipe

Hello guys!

Today I have something hearty for you.

I have tried out some new recipes in the last weeks to stay occupied when I got nothing to do in the evening at home and here is an easy and tasty dish from one of these evenings.

I'm a sucker for anything that includes noodles and mushrooms, so it's a perfect recipe for me - and it's also perfect for my veggie readers.

Ingredients for 2-3 portions:

- 200-300 g noodles

- 1 glass of pasta sauce (or you can make it yourself with this recipe here)

- 1 packet fresh mushrooms

- 2 fresh red peppers

- grated cheese to scallop

(- some salami or minced meat if you want the non-veggie version)

Cook the noodles, slice the mushrooms, dice the peppers and put everything into a casserole dish. Add the salami or minced meat for the non-veggie version. Spread the pasta sauce in the dish and put the grated cheese on top (I forgot that in the photo, sorry).

Now bake it in the preheated oven at 200°C (upper and lower heat) for about 15-20 minutes until the cheese is golden brown.

Et voilà - enjoy your meal!

I especially love how the taste of the fresh peppers and mushrooms comes through if you use good ones.

Have a lovely day!

chocolate fudge cake recipe

Hi guys!

This is a recipe I've wanted to share with you for some time but never made it to edit the photos. Now I did and believe me, it tastes as yummy as it looks! And it's so easy!

I made this as a belated birthday cake for Patrick (because he was on a business trip when he turned 27). he loves chcolate, so it was THE ultimate cake for him! :)

You need:

- a cake pan with 20-30 cm diameter

- 200g dark chocolate

- 200g butter

- 250g sugar

- 5 eggs

- 1 tbs flour

Step 1

Preheat the oven at 200° (Celsius).

Melt the chocolate and butter using the double-boiler method.

When liquid, add the sugar, stir for a minute, then let it all cool down.

Step 2

Add the eggs one by one, stirring constantly.

In the end add the flour. Stir again until you have a smooth dough.

Step 3

Easy-peasy: Fill the dough into the cake pan.

Bake at 200° (Celsius) for about 20 minutes.

The cake should still be soft in the middle when you gently push it with a finger.

Take the pan out of the oven and take out the cake immediately, then let it cool down.

Et voilà!

Enjoy! :)

I ❤ sandwiches

Hi guys!

How was your Saturday so far?

Mine was really nice because I had nothing, yes no-thing to do. Well okay actually I could have started writing an essay for university, but I'm a professional procrastinator so I had nothing to do ;)

So after sleeping in I got up, made me a vanilla macchiato and my new addiction: sandwiches! I started buying them for my lunch break at university some weeks ago and then thought they are so much cheaper if I prepare them myself at home. the other day I headed for the supermarket to get some things and then just started throwing everything yummy on the slices of sandwich toast bread. Ha, really a new obsession was born! I love the soft fluffy bread and all sorts of vegetables and cold cuts in between!

Basically, if you like to try it yourself, you can throw anything you want on it.

This is only an idea, this is my favourite composition at the moment:

4 slices of sandwich toast bread

 and then on each slice you put:

- radish curd

- some lettuce leaves

- some slices of ham

- some slices of Leerdamer cheese (or other)

- on top some tomatoes and cucumber slices

- on the very top spread some honey mustard (e.g. Dijon au miel)

- finish with another slice of bread

Et voilà, a yummy sandwich!

I plan trying to convert it into a hot meal with grilled vegetables and melted cheese soon. Or an Italian version with pesto and antipasti. Oh I have so many ideas...

It's so perfect for summer and so easy and quick to prepare for university or for the office!

What do you say? Are you a sandwich fan too?

Have a lovely day!

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veggie-stuffed pointed peppers

Hi guys!

Sorry, I didn't have time to read your blogs or comment a lot this weekend and I probably won't make it in the next days either. Actually I have prepared some posts that will be auto-published because I'll have some stuff to do for uni next week. However I will try to not neglect the blogosphere completely ;)

So as I had these photos ready for being posted for weeks and as we had this for NYE, I'd like to show you a yummy veggie recipe for stuffed peppers today.


You need:

5 pointed peppers
200g crème fraîche
100g feta cheese
2 cloves of garlic
200g grated cheese
500ml strained tomatoes
1 onion
salt, pepper, lemon juice


1. Chop the onion and garlic, sweat these in a pan for a few minutes. Then deglaze them with the strained tomatoes and half of the crème fraîche. Simmer everything for about 10 minutes and season to taste with salt, pepper and lemon juice (and herbs if you like).


2. While the sauce simmers, wash the peppers and cut out the cores.
Then prepare the stuffing: mix the other half of the crème fraîche, the (crumbled!) feta cheese and the grated cheese in a bowl. Add one pressed clove of garlic and season to taste with salt and pepper again.


3. Stuff the peppers with the cheese stuffing and put them into a greased casserole. Spill the sauce over the peppers (and add some more grated cheese if you like).
Bake them for 40-45 minutes at 200°C.

Et voilà!



A yummy veggie meal that can be served with potatoes or rice and salad. Instead of a "real" side dish you can also just serve some bread to dip it into the sauce.

Enjoy your meal! :)





now playing: bob marley - hotel california

christmas bakery

Hi guys!

Past weekend we had a Christmas party with all our neighbors here from the house downstairs in the hall. We put up a plastic tree, decorated the mail boxes and everyone brought something to eat or drink to add to the buffet. There was chili con carne, focaccia, brandy punch and whatnot. I was in charge of the dessert and as I love to bake I decided to bring three different treats: cookies, coconut macaroons and cupcakes.





Above you can see Nutella (choco-hazelnut spread) cookies. Very yummy, very easy! I found the recipe online, the German version can be found here.
Simply melt 200g Nutella (or other choco-hazelnut spread) in the microwave or in a double boiler. Then add 150g flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 egg and 50g sugar. Mix until the dough feels like play dough.
Then form little heaps of dough or cut out cookies, put them on a tray with baking paper and bake them in the pre-heated oven at 150° C for 10-20 minutes (depending on how crispy you want them to be).
Later on you can add couverture and stuff if you like.





Here we have the coconut macaroons, oh I love them! They are to die for, so delicious! And also really easy to make, I got the recipe from a co-worker: beat 3 eggwhites until stiff. Add a squirt of lemon juice and let 200g sugar and a pinch of salt trickle in while whisking. After that fold in 200g grated coconut. Form little heaps on a tray with baking paper (works best with two teaspoons) and bake them in the pre-heated oven at 175° C for 20-25 minutes.
Afterwards you can dip them into couverture if you like.







And last but not least I made these super-yummy Raffaelo (coconut comfit) cupcakes! Mmhhh, my favourite cupcakes ever! I have already posted the English recipe some time ago here and the German version can be found here.

I hope you enjoyed this sweet post ;)
I'll be back with a post tomorrow because tomorrow is a very special day, so stay tuned....

Happy Tuesday!





now playing: lifehouse - hanging by a moment

raffaelo cupcakes recipe

Hi guys!

This week is packed with lots of different things to do for me so I didn't have much time for outfit pics yet and actually I only wore comfortable simple looks the last days, so nothing interesting and fancy.
Instead of an outfit I have this recipe for incredibly delicious white chocolate coconut goodness for you. I tried it on Sunday for the first time and must admit my topping was too liquid to look nice, but the cupcakes tasted so so good! Hm yummyyyyy!


What you need...

...for the dough:
250g flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
150g dark chocolate
100g butter
2 eggs
200g sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
100ml coconut milk
100ml milk
16 Raffealos (or other coconut confection)

for the icing:
400g powdered sugar
200g white chocolate
125g butter
80ml coconut milk
1tsp vanilla extract



1. Pre-heat the oven on 175° C. Melt the butter and chocolate for the dough in a double-boiler or in the microwave.


2. Mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Slowly add the eggs, sugar, milk, coconut milk and vanilla extract with continuous stirring.


3. Here comes the sweet mess: crumble the Raffaelos (remove the almond inside) and add them to the dough.


4. Fill the dough into the baking forms or a muffin baking dish and put them into the oven for about 20 minutes.


5. Now they should look like this (or prettier haha). Unfortunately I forgot to take photos of them after putting the icing on top so I had to borrow some pics from the German recipe website ;)

6. For the icing melt the butter and the white chocolate. Let it cool down a bit, then addcoconut milk, vanilla extract and also food coloring if you like. Add the powdered sugar and stir until smooth.
Now you can put it on the cupcakes with an icing bag and decorate everythign with sugar crumbles or other decoration.
It can look like this...


...or like this,...

...whatever you like :)

Bon appétit! And happy Wednesday!

P.S. The German recipe can be found here. The pictures 1, 7 and 8 are borrowed from there.

tomato ricotta casserole

Hi guys!

The weekend was pretty exhausting so I was too lazy to blog yesterday. Remember that I was looking forward to Friday night? Well, it was a huge bummer! I missed the concert because my train was late and later on all clubs were so overcrowded that we couldn't get in anywhere. Furthermore I forgot my cam's battery at home so I wasn't able to take any weekend photos.

So instead of posting mentioned not-existing weekend pics I share the recipe of a yummy meal I tried last week: tomato ricotta casserole hhmmmm :)


You need (for 4 portions):

3 green onions
2 garlic cloves
4 tsp. olive oil
200g ricotta
125g cream cheese
3 eggs
salt and pepper
1 tbsp. flour
tabasco
basil
100g depp-frozen peas
16 cherry tomatoes




1. Chop up the onions and the garlic, sweat it with some oil in a pan for two minutes.





2. Mix the ricotta, cream cheese, eggs, salt, pepper, basil and flour with a squirt tabasco.



3. Add the onions, garlic and the frozen peas.



4. Oil a casserole dish and put in the dough. Don't forget to add the cherry tomatoes :) Bake it in the pre-heated oven at 200°C for 25-30 minutes.



5. Tadaaa: a delicious low-carb meal that can be served with a salad.



The German recipe can be found here.
Bon appétit! :)

mars muffins recipe

Hi guys!

The other day a certain baking lust just came over me, so I grabbed my recipes folder and looked for something I had not tried before et voilà: Mars muffins. Well, actually the recipe was for Mars Delight but they didn't have them at the supermarket so i took the normal Mars chocolate bars and gave it a try.
Basically when using the basic recipe you can bake these muffins with any chocolate bars you like, I can imagine they would also taste amazing with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups for example.

Anyway, here is the recipe:


For 12-18 muffins (depending on the size) you need


320g Mars (Delight) chocolate bars
250g flour
2 table spoons cocoa powder
2 table spoons baking powder
1/2 table spoon baking soda
1 egg
75g sugar
1 packet vanilla sugar
80ml vegetable oil
300g buttermilk
a muffin baking dish or these little paper baking cups


Here we go...



1. Pre-heat the oven at 180° Celsius. Chop up the chocolate bars into chunks.
Then mix them with the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda.



2. Whisk the egg and mix it with the sugar, vanilla sugar, oil and buttermilk.
Then fold in the chocolate-cocoa-mash bit by bit until all the dry ingedients are wet, so that everything is a well-stirred dough.



3. Fill the dough into the baking form or paper cups with a spoon.



5. Bake them on the middle rack in the pre-heated oven for 20-25 minutes. Afterwards switch off the oven and let the muffins rest for 5 more minutes. Then take them out and let them cool down.



6. Taadaaa! Yummy Mars muffins with delicious melted choco-caramel chunks inside, hmmmmmm :)


I hope you like it!
Sorry to my German readers, this time I can't provide a link to a German recipe because I got it from a magazine. You can still contact me via mail though if you'd like to have the recipe in German language.

Have a lovely day!




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