These fritters need neither a mixer nor patience. All the attention goes to the apples: that is where the recipe’s main trick lies.
September aubergines and peppers are at their cheapest — and this starter for potatoes, meat or just bread needs neither a frying pan nor oil.
The main ingredient is young courgettes, which September leaves in abundance. It bakes in an ordinary loaf tin for about an hour.
The same ingredients give velvet one day and broth the next. One stage makes the difference.
The same recipe gives two cooks different results. One step before the plums go on decides it.
The rice overcooks and soaks up all the liquid. One action saves it, taken before the grain goes into the pan.
A dish of three products and a few minutes of work. A single move at the very start is enough to ruin it.
The decision that matters is made before the mixture ever reaches the pan, and it takes only a few minutes.
The dumplings tear while you shape them and fall apart in the water. What has to change is the approach, not the amounts.
The mixture runs, the pancakes spread out and stay raw inside. Usually one habitual move is what ruins them.
A classic no Oktoberfest goes without: seven ingredients and not a single complicated step.
Crisp cucumbers with a barrel-cured taste can be made without a cellar and without pasteurisation. The key is that the brine is not kept after fermentation — the jars are
