I have been bad, very, very bad… After a strong start, I have neglected Kitchen Crush and my readers. My only excuse is that a lot has happened in the past two weeks. There was a trip to Greece to visit the best of all husbands. Among other things, we went to Athens, walked through the city, climbed up to Acropolis and dined in a lovely Cretan restaurant called Alatsi (a review of the place and the food will follow shortly). After Greece, there was Poland, where I visited my family and I got infected with a vicious stomach flu, which not only put me off cooking and food for a good week and a half, but also resulted in a two kilogram weight loss. [While I generally wouldn’t recommend stomach bugs as a weight loss solution (I will spare you the gruesome details), I think that we’re even, that virus and I]. After a week at home, where my hopes to cook and photograph some delicious Polish foods with my mom have been dashed, I went to Warsaw, to visit my very, extremely, super-pregnant friend Gośka (hang in there, only four days to go). And then, I came back to Düsseldorf and started my new… tam-tam-tam-tam: job. That’s right, a couple of weeks ago a job offer was made and I accepted. Thus, I am no longer a lady of leisure or as my husband claims ‘bum extraordinaire’, I am now a member of the working class. I do not know what this will mean for Kitchen Crush… undoubtedly less time to cook and missed rendezvous with the perfect photographing light during the week. But on the bright side, I will have a whole week to come up with the most delicious and beautiful foods to cook on the weekends. This Easter weekend has already given me a head start. I have a bunch of beautiful recipes waiting to be posted. So without further ado, here’s the very elegant and delicious Red Wine Fig and Gorgonzola Cream salad.
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Faux Tiramisu
Sometime last winter, our friend Axel came over for an evening of dinner and cards. After we ate, cleaned up and got the cards ready, we all felt a hankering for dessert. This is where Axel, quite unexpectedly, volunteered to make Tiramisu. At first, I was quite skeptical. I pictured a long and complicated cooking process, resulting in a horrible mess and a questionable culinary outcome, but Axel assured me that this was his quick and foolproof recipe for impressing girls. Within 20 minutes he made an absolutely delicious dessert and then he proceeded to kick our butts in cards. This was clearly his night and this girl and her totally non-girly husband were very impressed. I promptly appropriated the recipe and started using it to impress girls and boys alike. I like to serve this Faux* Tiramisu in cute little jars (an idea I shamelessly stole from an awesome brunch place in Essen, where we once, completely randomly, ended up having a two-hour lunch with Otto Rehhagel).
