Kölner Liebling Früchtetee

Bunte Früchteteemischung

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Diese Teekreation besteht aus: Apfelstücke*, Ringelblumenblüten*, gefr.-getr. Mangowürfel*, Zitronengras*, Orangenschalen*, Hagebuttenschalen*, Kokosraspeln*, Zitronenschalen*, Limettenöl*, Zitronenöl*. *= k.b.A. kontrolliert biologischer Anbau

(apple pieces, marigold blossoms, freeze-dried mango cubes, lemongrass, orange peel, rosehip shells, shredded coconut, lemon peel, lime oil, lemon oil.)

Bei sehr vielen in unserer Heimatstadt Köln ist diese Früchteteemischung aus kontrolliert biologischem Anbau sehr beliebt. Daher ist diese Mischung nun auch als "Kölner Liebling" zu haben. Diese exotische Mischung spiegelt in Ihren bunten Zutaten sehr schön unsere schöne bunte und tolerante Stadt Köln wider - auch beliebt als Kölner Mitbringsel oder Kölsche Gruß zum Verschicken an eure Freunde/ Familie.

Unsere einzigartigen Teemischungen komponieren wir unter Verwendung von sorgfältig ausgewählten Zutaten. Unsere Sommeliers arbeiten nur mit hochwertigen Rohstoffen wie Tees, Kräuter, Früchte und Blüten und achten ganz besonders auf natürlich ausgewogenen Geschmack. So kreieren wir mit Kreativität & Handwerkskunst unverwechselbare Geschmackserlebnisse, die es so nur aus dem Hause „LieblingsTee“ gibt. Jede Teemischung für sich ein kleiner Star mit großem Geschmack für deine Tasse!

Golden ratio also applies to egg:flour for pasta, 1g egg per 1.62g flour

Can't get it thin enough easily by hand, would be interested in trying a roller. But of all the shapes we've tried, the quickest good option is definitely ribbons. 

Max 1.5kg potatoes (the red ones are nice, the small ones mrsbrown planted work well too)
12 eggs
2 stalks spring onion
Dill
Mayonnaise (good, not sweet)
Seedy mustard
Pickles
Red wine vinegar
Salt

Cut the potatoes quite small. 2cm cubes are good.

Steam them, then immediately toss with salt and red wine vinegar.  This can be difficult, I have taken to pouring them from one mixing bowl to another several times. Don't undercook them, but 'just cooked' is good. They should taste excellent.

Boil the eggs (medhard-hard), rinse with cold water, crack the shells, and rest covered in cold water

Finely chop the spring onions, mix with 1tbs mustard and half a cup of mayonnaise. It is nice to let this 'infuse'.

-- you can pause here and do the rest tomorrow --

As the eggs are cooling, so are the potatoes. Shell the eggs when you can.

Mix the dressing through the potatoes gently (I pour between bowls). Add more mayo and mustard to cover the potatoes well. There is such a thing as to much.

Quarter the eggs and finely chop the pickles (unless you are charlesnaismith and think bigger is better), mix again.

Hooray, potato salad.

Made 10


Veggies
Quarter cabbage, or half a small one. Purple looks good.
2 carrots
Spring onion would have been nice, but I didn't have any

Batter
5 eggs
1.5 tbs soy sauce
1 cup flour
3/4 tsp dark sesame oil

Sauce (this made more than we needed
1 tbs tomato sauce (use less next time
1 tbs soy sauce
1 tsp oyster sauce (use more next time)
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce (don't use more)


I fried the pancakes in a fair wack of rice bran oil, drained on paper towel, used less Kewpie mayo than looked right, and less sauce too. They were good, everyone liked them.

Pasta Carbonara, as inspired by Nat's What I Recon cooking show.

4 adults(definitely halve if just cooking for 2)


320-350g pasta (fettuccine, or spaghetti)
4 whole eggs
1 cup parmesean cheese (grated/shredded etc)
4 cloves garlic (or less)
bacon (3 long strips, or 4 standard)
parsley

boil water, salt like the ocean
meanwhile, chop bacon; parsley;
meanwhile, cook bacon;
meanwhile chop parsley, keep separate; crack 4 eggs into a bowl
add parmesean to eggs, mix well. Can add pepper too.

Cook pasta.
Turn off the frying pan once bacon is cooked and take off the heat.
Once bacon is cooked and pasta is cooked, drain pasta. If you can, save some pasta water.

Put pasta into bacon pan, tip egg/parmesean mix on top, mix well. If the pan is too hot you'll get scrambled eggs instead of sauce.
Add parsley. Mix well.

I've got the no knead (at all, not even a little bit) thing sorted with yeast, and nearly with sourdough. And tonight was time for fruitbread.

IT IS SO GOOD.

G is very against sultanas. I can't differentiate them from raisins?

Fruit mix was mostly chopped (plump) dried apricots, then raisins. Then goji, because they were cheaper than the blueberries and cranberries, which I used in approximately equal measure.

I also used leftover porridge.

I can't imagine forgetting this, but just in case.


Cinnamon and allspice (twice what seems reasonable, at least). Do add salt.
Rehydrate the fruit in milk.
I used two cups of instant oats, but would be keen to try with cooked steel cut.
The rest was 50/50 white and wholemeal.

It's cold, so I used a touch of yeast for a ~18h rise.

Butter

2 cups bacon roughly chopped

2 onions
3 tsp garlic
4 carrots
3/4 celery bunch
1 zucchini
3 cups mushrooms

4 tins chopped tomato (used 2 flavoured, 2 plain)
4 tins rinsed beans (2 red, 2 white)
1 small jar of nice passata

Beef stock
Pepper
Thyme
Oregano


Saute butter, bacon, onion and garlic until sticking/browning, add veggies and saute more. Then add everything and slow cook on stovetop 3ish hours.  

Makes about 6.5L, which for us is about 8 serves (around $5/serve in 2018 for high quality ingredients, or half that if using dried beans, cheap market veggies, a stock cube, and cage bacon)

We chopped everything except the mushroom in the food processor, which made scaling it much faster than hand chopping. 

Inspired by mont_joye, (and the cheap good strawberries available months earlier than I'm used to) made jam this evening. 

600g strawberries
400g sugar
~80-100ml lime juice
1tsp jamsetta

I'm not used to needing to use extra pectin, but I wasn't getting a set at all. Worried it'll be too solid - will see tomorrow. 

 I never thought I'd make it to 25.


I did fill in the 2014 in review at the end of 2014 - I think I was in Budapest at the time, and it was approximately Christmas. It didn't post, though, so I'll try again, but for 'partway through 2015'.

1. What did you do in 2014 that you'd never done before?
Traveled alone. Spent lots of time with myself, out and about.

2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Certainly didn't manage to leave the house each day. Aiming to play piano more now it's arrived. Daily is the goal, but weekly is realistic.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth? 
Yes. That was difficult.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Nanna H still feels recent, but the two year anniversary is on Mothers Day this year. That's also the one year miscarriage anniversary, so at least my absolute reluctance to go makes some logical sense.

5. What would you like to have in 2015 that you lacked in 2014?
As last year, an addition to our family. More of a routine would be nice too. I was getting one going before Festival, but my sleep and energy patterns have changed now, and I haven't caught up to what works yet.

6. What date from 2014 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Days, rather than dates. Losses, learning I was pregnant, mum's cancer, meeting dad's new partner.

7. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Traveling. I got from Berlin to Krakow on my own, with my own bag, and I felt capable. That was pretty awesome. I started just trusting things would work out - I had bought an emergency KitKat as dinner, and just hoped things in Krakow would fall into place. Turns out they did, and G was wondering if I was still the same person.

8. What was your biggest failure?
A lack of faith in myself.

9. Did you suffer illness or injury?
LOL. I have that diagnosis I was after last year, though, and several others to go with it.

10. What was the best thing you bought?
Other than flights? I got a nice ring from Gdansk, and that chair on Monday!

11. Where did most of your money go?
Rent, medical expenses, travel. Also food.

12. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
I was really excited about Festival 2015, the weather put a bit of a damper on that. It also took us a few days for some members of the campsite to 'realise' we were camping there, but once we'd all worked out who was who it was quite nice
The Bialowiezia forest and the Vienna cemetery were some of my highlights of the trip. I saw snow fall from the sky. I saw different kinds of snow fall from the sky. I understood that some snow was good for making snowmen, and some was not. SNOW.

13. What song(s) will always remind you of 2014?
Teen Idle - Mariana and the Diamonds; There She Goes - The La's; Sights (especially the Andy C remix) - London Grammar; The Hanging Tree (from Mockingjay (Hunger Games)?); Take Me to Church - Hozier; OneDirection - 18 and Live While We're Young; Taylor Swift - Shake it Off and Blank Space; Riptide - Vance Joy. Radioactive - Imagine Dragons.

Music is one of the things I feel like I was missing in 2014, and I've really been making up for that over the last 9 months or so.

14. Compared to this time last year, you are:
More cautious.

15. What do you wish you'd done more of? 
Handwriting/calligraphy, being outdoors, interesting cooking. Identical to last year.

16. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Flopping in front of the internet, rather than a notebook. Identical to last year.

17. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Mariana and the Diamonds.

18. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Nothing I can think of. Possibly nothing, actually.

19. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
It would be really nice to have a social work-y job. I guess that's why I've picked up the volunteering this year.

20. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2013?
Still Nana clothes. I did buy some new ones online while I was away, though. Trying to go back to the black a bit, but I mostly got purple.

21. What kept you sane?
Distance, and G. As last year. Also, going away. I've not been seriously depressed (except after work, like clockwork) since we got back from Europe, so that really helped too.

22. What political issue stirred you the most?
. Head in sand.

23. Who did you miss?
Mum.

24. Who was the best new person(s) you met?
The couchsurfers who stayed with us here, and who hosted me/us while we were away (one of them was even the same person, and that was so good).

25. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2014:
Often, I actually can. I have lots of feelings, and that's okay. Sometimes they are even predictable. Sometimes predictable things alleviate them too.