Es ist Spargelzeit, juchuuuu!
May. 2nd, 2020 08:45 pmIch habe für das erste Mal dieses Jahr Spargel gefunden. Bei Aldi. Die waren schweineteuer, aber ich habe sie gleich mitgenommen. Es gab also heute Spargel mit Carbonara Sauce überbacken, und das Kochwasser haben wir für eine Suppe aufgehoben. Es war äußerst lecker; wert des Tennisarms den ich wahrscheinlich entwickelt habe beim Schälen von einem Kilo Spargel!
Also, morgen ist Muttertag, so habe ich Vanilleküchlein gebacken (in einer Muffin-Backform), mit Schokoladen-ganache gefüllt und einer grünen Marzipanblume in der Mitte. Die sind mit rosa Fondantguß überzogen (wenigstens denke ich, daß dies Cake melts im Grunde Fondant sind) und mit einer Zuckerblume und weißer Schokolade dekoriert. Fotos morgen, ich schwöre!
My apologies to those who don't speak German. I'm too tired to look up all those cooking-specific words in the dictionary. Tomorrow there will be pictures about the mini cakes I made for Mothers' Day and about the two somewhat steampunk-style cards I made. I basically spent the day in the kitchen and am at least 75 per cent dead right now. *g*
Also, morgen ist Muttertag, so habe ich Vanilleküchlein gebacken (in einer Muffin-Backform), mit Schokoladen-ganache gefüllt und einer grünen Marzipanblume in der Mitte. Die sind mit rosa Fondantguß überzogen (wenigstens denke ich, daß dies Cake melts im Grunde Fondant sind) und mit einer Zuckerblume und weißer Schokolade dekoriert. Fotos morgen, ich schwöre!
My apologies to those who don't speak German. I'm too tired to look up all those cooking-specific words in the dictionary. Tomorrow there will be pictures about the mini cakes I made for Mothers' Day and about the two somewhat steampunk-style cards I made. I basically spent the day in the kitchen and am at least 75 per cent dead right now. *g*
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Date: 2020-05-02 07:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-05-02 07:04 pm (UTC)Die sind schweineteuer auch hier, aber der Saison ist so kurz, daß wir sie uns immer gönnen. Für die vier oder fünf Male die wir sie kochen...
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Date: 2020-05-02 07:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-05-02 07:12 pm (UTC)Sadly... I cannot write or speak German any more, I just lapse into Norwegian, so I had to use Google to write my comment and I've been struggling to make out if I have written gibberish,
Also... German uses longer sentences and more words to say things than English, and especially Norwegian, which is very pithy by comparison.
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Date: 2020-05-02 08:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-05-02 08:04 pm (UTC)Unless it is German literature, of course, where a single sentence can take two or three pages, and by the time you reached the end you've forgotten what was at the beginning. I'm fairly good at the everyday language but I was sweating blood at uni when making my diploma as a language teacher because they made us read that very literary stuff (including Goethe's novels) that caused me unbearable headaches.
Cooking and baking vocabulary is easy. Especially when one has been using German recipes for decades. ;))
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Date: 2020-05-02 08:10 pm (UTC)I doubt I could ever read anything more complex than a simple Graphic Novel though, certainly no German literature.
* Providing it's Hochdeutsch.
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Date: 2020-05-02 08:51 pm (UTC)I remember when
But yeah, German dialects are a hard thing, too. I'm really, really good at German, but even I have to listen very carefully when they're not speaking Hochdeutsch. Even though the German we speak in the family (or rather spoke with Grandpa) is closer to what people speak in Austria.
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Date: 2020-05-02 09:14 pm (UTC)found asparagus for the first time this year. At Aldi. They were more expensive, but I took them with me right away. So today there was asparagus baked with carbonara sauce, and we picked up the cooking water for a soup. It was extremely tasty; worth the tennis arm I probably developed when peeling a kilo of asparagus!
So, tomorrow is Mother's Day, so I baked vanilla cakes (in a muffin baking dish), filled with chocolate ganache and a green marzipan flower in the middle. They are covered with pink fondant nut (at least I think these are actually fondant) and decorated with a sugar flower and white chocolate. Photos tomorrow, I swear!
What a nice surprise for your Mum tomorrow and the asparagus sounds tasty.
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Date: 2020-05-02 09:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2020-05-03 05:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-05-03 05:27 pm (UTC)Übrigens, weißt du, daß ich mal Fanfic geschrieben habe, inspiriert bei Spargel?
Behold Elf-root (https://archiveofourown.org/works/4385351/chapters/9954728)!
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Date: 2020-05-03 05:29 pm (UTC)Ich mochte den grünen Spargel aber zumindest in der Pfanne gebraten erinnerte er mich mehr an grüne Bohnen als an Spargel.
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Date: 2020-05-04 07:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2020-05-04 11:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-05-05 06:28 pm (UTC)