Potatoes and pumpkins are healthy. Why not make a soup of both? Here’s the recipe.

Ingredients:

• Pumpkin (one half)
• Potatoes (3-4)
• Soup cubes
• Caraway (Kümmel)
• Nutmeg (Muskatnuss)
• Milk
• Sour cream
• Ginger
• Salt

Slice the pumpkin and the potatoes into small cubes and put them into a pot containing hot water. Add salt, soup cubes, grained caraway, ginger and one nutmeg. Cook and mash the whole thing well but get rid of the nutmeg before you damage your equipment. Finally add a shot of milk and/or sour cream and stir. Before you serve the soup, you may add a shot of pumpkin seed oil as shown in the picture. Gives some nice effect.

This time I tried the well known Tom Kha Gai - but as you might have guessed from the subject, with vegetables instead of chicken.

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This is going to be the start of a series of “Asian cuisine” wok recipes. It took me one year to discover that I could eventually use my own wok. It remained on top of my hifi components (actually my old Sony MDS-JE520 MiniDisc deck) until I fully relocated.

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Yesterday we (Nina and me) made our first experience with cooking pancakes. Kids, you can try this at home!

Basic ingredients:

• Eggs
• Flour
• Milk
• Salt

Put together flour and milk, add eggs, put in a breeze of salt - et voila - pour the whole thing into a hot pan - the rest is rather easy.
The most interesting part is to fill the pancake with stuff. I tried mushrooms, asparagus and hard cheese for one and different kinds of spread for the other ones. Tasty!

Comments and ideas for further pancake stuffings will be appreciated.
:-)