Sorry about the lack of new posts everyone!
The last couple of weeks have been all about a visit and enjoying time with the family.

Lots of good wine.


And great DIY food.

(Beef tartare, in case you're wondering.)

And another lovely tarte tatin with plums.
But not really much original dishes prepared by me... so not much to blog about.

Promise to have things running on the normal schedule again by next week!

Everything but the kitchen sink chinese style soup

Or hunger is the mother of the best recipe inventions...
This turned out to be the perfect soup for a grey autumn day. Filling and not really spicy/hot but warming instead.

ingredients:
one packet plus three rashers of bacon, cut into strips
one clove of garlic, finely chopped
half a hot chili, finely chopped
a hunk of ginger, finely chopped
one liter of chicken stock
one portion of glass noodles
one small kohlrabi, peeled and cut into juliennes
half a head of cos lettuce (outer leaves), cut into strips
ca. two teaspoons of fish sauce
a generous squeeze of lemon juice


1. Fry the bacon until it gets crispy edges. Pour off most of the fat. Add the ginger, chili and garlic and fry gently. You don't want the garlic to get brown and bitter. Add the stock and let it come to the boil. Let it boil for a couple of minutes to let the flavours develop.
2. Add the glass noodles. They take about five minutes to cook. After about two minutes add the kohlrabi. After another two to three minutes add the fish sauce, lemon juice and the lettuce. cover with a lid and let the soup heat up again and the lettuce is wilted to taste.

Enjoy!