ROOTS & WINGS

#1104160

December 22, 2025 at 6:00pm

You might have guessed that after the -"Frenzy" I didn't have much energy left for fancy stuff. (Should have paid heed to that earlier. ) So I browsed the remaining (see ) Christmas cooking / bakery books for yummy yet SIMPLE recipes, and got lucky at a VERY special Christmas baking book I also used for three of the previous Yums. Why special? Well, being a Muslima didn't keep Turkish cook / baker Fatmanur Kilic from writing 50 fabelhafte Weihna... [Read more]

#1104115

December 22, 2025 at 5:44pm

As I mentioned already in , I was especially grinchy this year, for reasons I don't wanna let ruin this recipe by repeating them, as it's what got me out of the foul mood... kinda. It's still a fickle b–. On December 5 , it had become so pressing – PLUS it was a dark fog hole day where I could barely make out the park across the street, and that's a 100 meters away – that SOMETHING had to be done! As I was sorting through – and eve... [Read more]

#1104033

December 21, 2025 at 3:18pm

Do you know these days when out of the blue loneliness, sadness and longing strike, and you wanna go back to a time and day when they weren't a thing yet? Like when you sit in front of an open box with Christmassy stuff and think , and wanna kick it outta the house? When the day is grey and cold and dark, and you have to switch on the lights at 2 PM already? When you know that your friends are with their families at Adventskaffee right now – and no one will come for... [Read more]

#1103974

December 20, 2025 at 12:41pm

Outward crunchy, inward soft potatoes and a (more or less) hot tomato sauce ... aren't the simplest things the best ? (And did you know that the dish's name stems from Spanish bravo for angry , which fits well for a hot sauce? ) Anyway, these are a staple on EVERY Tapas Bar menu, be it in the tapas' "homeland" Spain, in Germany, or Tokio. I must admit that, true to some clichés, I'm a true Deutsche Kartoffel , and this my fave tapa. ... [Read more]

#1103947

December 19, 2025 at 2:12pm

Granted, I already did a pumpkin pasta recipe => . BUT: the difference here is that the former was filled with pumpkin while THIS one is (at least partly) made of pumpkin. Yeah, I'm still a pumpkin nut , and LOVE to use it for as long as it's available as it's one of my FAVE vegs. This recipe was once more the reason a cookbook made it home with me. C'mon! Placing a book called KüRBISLIEBE (Pumpkin Love) in eye height before me.... [Read more]

#1103633

December 19, 2025 at 8:57am

Porridge AGAIN !? I hear you yell, but... bear with me! There's a striking difference between all recipes I found for this dish as of yet... it's savory All others I have (at least in MY collection ) are sweet / fruity . Also where I got it from is... unusual ... as it's out of French cook Émelie Franzo: Mushrooms – The Cookbook (OR: Champignons – Recettes gourmandes et Conseils de Préparations ... just for the heck of it, and because Fr... [Read more]

#1103155

December 11, 2025 at 10:19am

+ At least once every month (depending on schedules) my neighbors/friends and I have a game night where we play good ol' board (and other) games. Of course, no one wants to starve while at it, so everyone cooks/bakes something, and brings it for the others to taste. When it was my turn – back in October – I couldn't decide (typically girl, eh? ), which of two Yums to make... and so did them both . One's savory , the other brownies with a ... [Read more]