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Fresh Ginger Tea

Here’s a family secret I’m sharing free of charge:
To make ginger tea:

Peel some fresh ginger root.
Cut it into smaller slices or chunks and put them into a tea pot.
Pour boiling hot water and allow to brew for a couple of minutes before serving…. é voilà!

I like drinking it hot and cold… and I leave the […]

10 Minute Banana Bread

for future reference:
Recipe for Banana Bread

crumbled

Here’s a simple and rustique family recipe to make crumble:
Cover the bottom of a heat-resistant dish with slices of fruit such as apples, pears, or plums.
Stir up some crumbles for the topping (you can use the same recipe for the topping as in Streuselkuchen, but i’d leave out the cinnamon and use brown sugar instead)
Add […]

The African Cookbook Project

just read about the African Cookbook Project.
You can submit your favourite African recipe at:
questions (at) betumi.com.
Off the top of my head and based on the recipes I’ve published here at Chiperoni.org, I would say banana bread.
I’m sending an email to Blantyre to ask my mom…

come fare il sugo

stamattina ho provato fare un sugo con tutti i pomodori che non ho mangiato.
Ho trovato questa pagina:
Sugo di pomodoro semplice *
(importante per me: deve stare semplice)
e tutto nella pentola. vediamo come ha funzionato…dopo

banana bread experiment

To get rid of some ripe and mushy bananas*, I decided to bake some banana bread today.
What I usually do is mix up a basic cake butter and then add 2-3 bananas to the batter. Today has been one big experiment ‘cos I didn’t have some of the ingredients. And I still don’t have […]

Basler Brunsli

Apparently the Basel German word for biscuits/cookies/Kekse is Gutzi and not Gutzli.
I was fairly confident that the bakery at the supermarket across the road from my office had introduced a typo.
Turns out it’s not a typo. In my part of Switzerland, people say Gutzi, while in the Zurich area they say Gutzli.
Anyway… i’ve started to […]

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