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Dog Treats with no Peanut Butter

Do you remember the dog treats I posted here when we got Hazel as a pup? Those were homemade cookies with a lot of peanut butter. When she munched them away, we noticed that she got a weird rash on her belly, it looked very itchy. After consulting with the vet and testing, we realized, she apparently was allergic to peanut butter. Which is a shame since a lot of dogs are crazy about peanut butter. But alas, I couldn’t make any homemade treats containing peanut butter anymore. So I looked for an alternative. Almond butter seems to be doing the trick. However, almond butter contains more liquid so I had to adjust and tweak recipes accordingl. Below is a dog treat with no peanut butter, in case yours is allergic.

13/05/2025

Rhubarb Strudel

I am introducing rhubarb strudel to you today. I already have an article on how to make strudel dough from scratch on the blog. Of course I have an apple strudel on here as well. However, I wanted to include a spring version of strudel and decided to go for rhubarb. But try to imagine this, as a food blogger it can often take several weeks before a recipe goes on the blog. This means seasonal fruits/vegetables are needed very early on. I mean, you may make the recipe, you have to take pictures, you need to tweak the recipe, write it down, rewrite segments, etc. I am telling you, it takes a while. So when I was looking for rhubarb, it was still March. However, since I saw asparagus and strawberries being sold, which are usually in season at the same time, I thought I may also find rhubarb. But no, rhubarb, I was told, is definitely not available until April.

11/04/2025

Homemade Peanut Butter Cookies For Your Dog

Süßer Welpe mit selbstgemachtem Hundekeks

Guys, we have a new family member! Her name is Hazel! It is an Australian shepherd, she is about 9 weeks old. Obviously I had to bake something for her as well, I mean, isn’t she a cutie pie? Since she loves peanut butter (I have so far only met one dog in my entire life who didn’t like peanut butter), I decided to make her some peanut butter cookies.

21/08/2021

Sandwich Bread with Buttermilk

Finally another bread recipe on my blog! If you have been following for a while, you may know that our entire bread is baked by my husband. He has become quite an expert and for that reason I rarely ever post recipes even though we do eat our fair share, simply because my policy is that it is me who needs to have tried the recipe so that I can answer any questions you may have and be sure that it was successful. But this time I had a reason, I wanted to make French toast, I love French toast and thought I might give this sandwhich bread a try, it seemed simple enough.

15/05/2021

Healthy Ginger Muffins with no Refined Sugar

Gesunde Ingwermuffins ohne Haushaltszucker

It has been four years since I put these ginger muffins on the blog the first time. Partially they are made with whole wheat flour, the traditional butter is replaced with coconut fat and we will not use any refined sugar, but instead sweeten them with molasses. Since they contain feshly grinded ginger, they are super moist and delicious. Of course you can argue if this really is “healthy”, but at least they are healthier than your average muffin. At least I didn’t feel guilty eating them happily with some joghurt and more molasses for breakfast.

23/04/2021

Choripán, Argentinian Hot Dog

Choripán argentinischer Hot Dog mit selbstgemachten Brötchen

Did you watch the Latin American Streetfood Show on Netflix? If you did, you most likely remember choripán, the Argentinian or Uruguayan version of a hot dog. When I watched the show, I remembered eating this hot dog in Buenos Aires lastly in 2016 and I was determined to make a version that also works in Germany. So I first had to find the chorizo sausage. I thought that was going to difficult, but then, surprisingly I found a small version in our regular grocery store. These were the Spanish ones, but I have to say, they taste very similar to the ones I remember from Buenos Aires. So yay to that. Next I wanted to make my own hot dog buns. I knew that they would be so much better. So I set out and tried different recipes. I was surprised when I realized that hot dog buns are much easier to prepare than I originally thought. You basically throw all ingredients together and then have to wait until you form the buns. Really not that hard. So here you go, you got homemade hot dog buns filled with a chorizo sausage (or in my case two as they were so small), the herb sauce called chimichurri (also homemade), and if you want, some red onion slices. Voilá, you have your Latin American version of a hot dog: choripán!

09/04/2021

Homemade Baileys or Irish Cream

Rezept für selbstgemachten Baileys oder Irish Cream

I don’t know why, but our local grocery store stopped selling Baileys even before the Corona virus craziness. I was a little sad about that as I love drinking this liqueur. So I decided to do a little research. Much to my amazement, it is really easy to make. It takes less than ten minutes if you have all ingredients at hand, so from now on I will make my own Irish cream!

07/04/2020

Artisan Country Bread for World Bread Day

Bread, finally you will find bread on my blog again. Reason is the World Bread Day and for this occasion my husband baked the below artisan country bread. I have mentioned this beforehand, but my husband is much better at bread baking than me. That’s probably because his grandfather was the bread baker of the entire village. He made sure the entire village community had bread and cake at hand. My husband currently bakes our entire bread consumption and he definitely is much better at it than me. For that reason I don’t have that many bread recipes on my blog. I have Danish yoghurt buns, a simple sour dough bread, and an Italian bread with semolina and olive oil on here and this simply has to do with the fact that I always test the recipe several times myself before publishing it. It goes without saying that I have tested each recipe myself.

16/10/2019

Homemade Spaghetti Al Crudo

You voted 100% that I post the recipe here when I showed you in an Insta story how we made spaghetti from scratch at home. So here we go, today you will get the recipe for homemade pasta. Obviously they taste so much better than store-bought. And this delicious summer sauce with tomatos, olives, capers, and anchovies, seriously, this is delicious. During my one month break when we moved from Hamburg to Munich I had the chance to eat a lot of homemade pasta. I did learn a thing or two during that time. For example that you really need to knead the dough for a while for the gluten to develop its powers. Or that you need to flour the dough all the time so that the spaghetti doesn’t stick. I mean, I didn’t use a pasta attachment back then, I did everything by hand, rolling it out and cutting the pasta.

09/08/2019

How to Make Homemade Dulce de Leche

Today I am going to introduce you to dulce de leche. Never heard of it? This is Spanish and literally translates as “sweetness of milk”. In English it is often translated as milk caramel. Its taste is similar to traditional caramel, but since it is prepared with milk, it has a slightly different taste. Dulce de leche is widely used in Latin America and served with desserts, pastries, but also along cheese or as sweetener for coffee.

21/05/2019

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