Stuffed Hokkaido Pumpkin

stuffed hokkaido

When I was a kid, in Turkey we had only the big orange pumpkins, similar to the halloween pumpkins. The only thing one would cook with them was a dessert, where a pumpkin and enormous amounts of sugar played the major role, topped with cinnamon, cream and ground pistachios. I never liked this [...]

Would you care for a cup of coffee?

Edit march 2007: As of 01 March 2007, Herbertz is a no-smoking café, which makes it all the nicer!

PS: Welcome all new readers who have found their way to food vagabond through delicious:days. Please do drink a cup of coffee (or tea) and look around my very young blog. Right now I am overwhelmed by [...]

An Alsatian Lunch

naturmorte
Past weekend we were in the Alsace and Vosges regions of France. Strasbourg is so close to Stuttgart, we were there in one and a half hours. We engaged in our favorite pastime activity and walked around the towns (Strasbourg and Wissembourg), went to the market, to “Galeries Lafayette Gourmet” (calling it a supermarket [...]

Late Summer Bounty

late summer bounty
When I was around 12 - 13 years old, my father would take me food shopping with him. At the time we rarely bought our fresh vegetables and fruit in a supermarket, maybe there weren’t many yet, maybe their offer was not good enough. These were the times when we still had the [...]

An Evening of Pleasure

an evening of pleasure
Last weekend we were invited to a special dinner by one of the vineyards that we know and buy wines from in the Kaiserstuhl area, Trautwein. This winery is bioland and demeter certified and one of the first vineyards in Germany to completely convert to bio-dynamic and organic farming (in 1980). By [...]