Crowds
When people call for encore after a concert
I hate to be that elephant in the room
Rather want to go home
Old White Men
Genesis 1.1
Lazy Days
Debates
Sometimes I wonder
What is the difference between 'false balance' and 'empowerment'
Other then the point of view
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Happy Birthday
Janosch
Germany
Wind
Favorite Places
After reading Charles Taylor
I understood how my|self came to being
Ideas
Skatefunt
Gold
Erbsensuppe
Pretty Birds
Once I had a
Butterfly Pea Flower
in front of my house.
Insects lived in it.
Birds, rats and geckos ate from it.
After my neighbors took it away they got a feeding station for birds.
Here only the pretty ones are wanted.
Betty left me home alone with a lot of vegetables like
Cauliflower, Carrots, Cabbage...
I cant eat it all so i decided to Pickle them.
Lets cut ...
Bring to boil
1/2 Tbsp of the Spice mix
with
1 Litre Water
1/2 Litre Vinegar
1/2 Tsp Turmeric
1 1/2 Tbsp Salt
Cook the Vegetables for 5 Minutes
Let it cool
Fill in the container
Add as much of the liquid as possible
Keep for some days before eating
Purple Pickle
mix
1/4 Litre Vinegar
1 1/4 Litre Water
1 1/2 Tbsp Salt
with
2 Medium Size Cauliflower
1 Large Beetroot
and let sit for at least a week
Apples make me think of my friend Sebastian.
We shared a house for some wonderful years
At the end of summer
When the whole garden was full of apples
He made his famous Apple crumble.
When i gave a piece to my new neighbour
She filled the plate with some Misal
I heard its custum to never return an empty plate.
Neighbour
Walls
I dont think walls are such a bad thing
If just their gates would not only open in one direction.
Before I can start baking a
Mulberry Cheesecake
I need to get
500g Quark
Quark is something so natural in a German supermarket that I was once again
surprised about an
ingredients geographic limitations
To make my own Quark I mixed
1 Litre of raw milk
with
1 Tbsp Lemon Juice
After around 16-18 hours the milk will get sour.
Heat the mix no higher then 50°C until the milkparts seperate.
Fill in a cheese cloth and let drip for another 12 hours.
Once the Quark is ready, mix:
125g Butter
250g Sugar
Juice and zest of 1/2 lemon
4 Egg Yolks
50g Semolina/Rava
1 Package (125g) vanilla custard
In a seperate bowl beat
4 Egg Whites
Suddenly my whole world turned dark
Later people told me
My condition was critical
When i was found in the daugh
I had already lost a lot of beans
My memories of what followed are still quite blured.
When I recoverd
a beautiful gift was waiting for me
To finish the cake
Smoothly fold the Quark and last the beaten Eggwhites under Custard mix
Give half of the daugh in a baking tray.
Evenly spread 50g Mullberries on it and fill it up with the remaining dough.
Bake for 30min on 180°C and an other 10min on 100°C
Cheese Cake
Quark
Making Sorpotel comes with many expectations.
You would find as many recipies as you find christian families in India.
I hope I can do them justice.
Use
1kg Porkbelly
Slice the skin
give it a brush with honey
and grill it in the oven till it gets a nice crust
What gives the Sorpotel its unique and warm flavour is the
masala
.
Seperately roast:
8 Cloves
8 Peppercorns
8 Green Cardamon Pods
2” Cinnamon
1 Tbsp Cumin seeds
and most importantly
50g deseeded Kashmiri Chillies
Grind all the spices in a food processor
to make it into a thick paste
soak the powder in some water and keep aside.
Now cut the porkbelly in small cubes
keeping all the layers of meat, fat and skin together.
Heat
4-5 Tbs of oil
in a big pot
and give the meat a stir fry.
After all the meat is fried and kept aside
use the same pot with the remaining fat to fry finely chopped
2 Onions
10g Ginger
25g Garlic
and
3 fresh Green Chillies
Saute until the onions get transparent.
Once the edges get brown introduce it to the masala paste.
Give a good stir.
It will smell very nice now :)
Prevent the masala to dry by adding little water if needed
add the meat to it and cook for 5 minutes
In the same container you used to make the masala paste
mix the remains with
1 Tsp Sugar
and water.
Give this stock to the meat and let it come to a boil
Add
250ml Coconut Vinegar
and let it simmer on low flame for around 2 hours
Finaly add
1 Tbsp Salt
(additional Salt and/or Vinegar if needed)
Eating it with Bettys famous Dal makes it an elephanticious sunday meal.
Sorpotel
Voice Messages
There is something unsettling about receiving long voice messages.
Neither being an actual message nor conversation one rather listens to an other person trying to
figuere out
what he or she actually wants to say.
The longer it takes the more difficult it gets to keep track and put the pieces together to give a
proper reply.
Weird
Time
A trailer used to be a short version of a film
to see if you would like to watch the full feature
now you first get to
see a short clip
before the trailer
to decide if you want to take time for the preview
Protection
Words
Gefährder
,
Rückkehrer
,
Balkanroute
,
Wellen
,
Obergrenzen
...
Scar(y)ing words, tested and approved in the political language on security since 9/11 found their
continouing
use in the pandemic as well.
'Your Family, Your Responsibilty'
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