Cafeteria Spezial: Erdbeerschnitten   These days our chef has been spoiling us a little here and there. Like the strawberry shortcake that was offered. Of course, everyone is so excited that chef doesn’t just place it on the buffet with other foods. Rather, he has the staff hand out these things clearly rationed, meaning you really only get one portion of shortcake. For me, that’s enough, though, and I’m really happy about the treat anyway. Unser Koch verwöhnt uns derzeit ein bisschen. Wie z.B. mit den Erdbeerschnitten. Natürlich ist jeder ganz heiß darauf, sodass Koch sie nicht einfach am Buffet anbietet, wie das restliche Essen, sondern er hat das Personal angewiesen sie klar zu rationieren. Mit anderen Worten: Dir steht nur eine Portion Erdbeerschnitten zu. Sonst nichts. Mir reicht es aber, und dankbar bin ich allemal.              

Flammkuchen nach Herzenslust   May I recommend? La Flamme – a restaurant that specializes in tarte flambees. My aunt and uncle invited me there the other day. And besides offering all kinds of different tarte flambees (which in my eyes is special enough already), that restaurant topped it all with a very special offer – an all-you-can-eat special service, meaning: If all people at your table agree, you can order two tarte flambees of your choice each round, and as long as you finish both tartes, you can order two more. All at a flat rate. And that’s what we did. We ate tarte flambees until our stomachs couldn’t handle any more! Yum! Darf ich empfehlen? La Flamme – ein Flammkuchenrestaurant. Tante und Onkel luden mich kürzlich dorthin ein. Und neben dem allgemeinen Angebot von Flammkuchen aller Art (was ich schon besonders genug fand), setzte dieses Restaurant noch einen obendrauf, indem sie einen all-you-can-eat service anbieten, was heißt: Wenn alle Leute an einem Tisch mitmachen, kann man pro Runde zwei Flammkuchen seiner Wahl bestellen. Und …

Apfel Rosen   Remember that bake sale a couple of days ago? Well, me not being really good at food things, I dared – for the first time – to actually contribute more than just my money to the sale. I made apple roses. Apple roses with lots of hurdles, that is. First, them not being a very common thing around here, I didn’t have any cupcake wrappers to start with. Then, of course, I didn’t have any crescent dough (which is what the recipe called for). And ultimately, I don’t have anything to slice things into really thin slices. Not withstanding all these obstacles, since the rest of this endeavor seemed somewhat foolproof, I set out on the daring adventure of creating apple roses. From my colleagues and friends I gathered the missing pieces, and from the internet I found myself an apple pie recipe to replace for the crescent dough stuff. All good so far. Except that with the recipe I got, the dough turned out to be very runny. Which is all …