Enjoying the night off without a beer?? For Germans unthinkable! We Germans are known for drinking beer like others drinking water. It is indeed the favorite drink for a lot of Germans. So this table will perfectly show you what matches with your supper or dinner you prepared. You can actually always drink beer like suggested to sweet dessert with “Kölsch”, a dark bock beer or even malt beer.
German wheat beer
More facts to be impressed of German beer culture:
about 5000 different beer types
on average a German drinks 111 liter per year
1.place men: Saxons drink the most beer
1.place women:Thuringians like the most to drink beer
Bavaria has the most breweries
the German purity law for beer exists since April 23. 1516
April 23 is the “Day of the German Beer”
3. place for Germany on the worldwide consumption of beer
(after Czech Republic and Irland)
And finally one false prejudice about beer: Beer doesn’t cause putting on weight. 200 ml of a pils contain about 84 cal, which is actually less than the same amount of apple juice (98 cal) or coke (112 cal). We have to blame the mean pizza with extra cheese topping or the chips we eat after the affluent consumption of beer. The reason for that binge eating is the alcohol in the beer. It simply causes appetite.
a malt beer dessert
So why don’t we just prepare the beer in our meals. Then everything is combined and we don’t have to wait for the appetite.
Like this dessert: malt beer – strawberry soup with vanilla ice
The German site Brauer-Bund provides loads of recipes involving beer in your meat. I still don’t know if I want to try one of them. Until then: Prost!
Last time I showed you the perfect, well, delicious German Cheesecake. Now two more pictures to seduce you even more with a treat! I know this is mean for those who are looking for the perfect tight-summer-bikini-body.
Tarte au chocolat
cake with apple-pudding stuffing on green fruit jelly with vanilla sauce
It’s summer. Of course, we have to talk about sweet deserts and one cake should never be missing: It’s the German Cheesecake. A lot of people love this cake. There are hundreds of recipes and variations, but I surely want to show you one that I have myself tried out. Let’s start:
ingredients for a cheesecake
Ingredients:
200 g of flour
245 g of sugar
6 eggs
65 g of butter
1 tablespoon of a lemon juice
1 tablespoon of the paring of lemon
3 tablespoons of milk
1000 g of curd cheese
pinch of Salt
1 pack of vanilla sugar
First part for the cheesecake will be the short pastry. Give flour, a pinch of salt and 65 g of sugar into a bowl. Add the cold butter as flakes and one egg and knead the ingredients with a dough hook. At last form the dough to a ball and let it repose for 30 minutes in the fridge.
Preheat your oven at 160°C. Now give the curd cheese into a bowl. Separate 5 eggs into 2 bowls. Mix the yellow of the eggs with the curd cheese. Add the vanillas sugar, 180 g of sugar, the milk, 2 tablespoons of flour and one tablespoon of the rubbed paring of the citron to the curd cheese. Knead the dough until smooth.
The white egg needs to be whisked stiff with the dough hook and the tablespoon of lemon juice can be added as well. Fold in the stiff white egg to the curd cheese dough. Don’t stir too much, otherwise it would easily collapse back upon itself.
Now roll the dough out as a circle at a floured space. Should be a little larger then your spring form pan. Insert the short pastry into your pan and form as well a border. After that you can apply the curd dough on the short pastry. Ready to bake it for 1 hour and 20 minutes.
The cake will strongly rise during its time in the oven. After baking time, turn off the oven and let cool off the cake for 5 minutes by leaving open the oven door. Then take the cake out and still let it repose in its pan for about 5 minutes. You will notice that the cake will collapse a little.
After being cooled, the German cheesecake is ready to eat!
Brunch here, brunch there, brunch everywhere. Almost every restaurant offers today a Sunday brunch. It works. People are streaming out to pig out which satiates for hours. This is actually a great deal. You usually can choose from a great diverse buffet, you can eat as much as your stomach allows you and at the end you don’t have to worry about supper, because you can’t even think of food for the next two days.
Tulum Restaurant
Buffet
That’s what I experienced last Sunday at the Mexican restaurant Tulum in Berlin Wilmersdorf.
Besides the salutatory orange juice, you have a broad option of breakfast and as well traditional Mexican food. Naturally, nachos with several dips weren’t missing.
What I especially liked:
Croissants (and other types of bread)
Salmon
fresh salads
Burritos
chicken with pineapple, curry and unknown spices (the best)
fruit salad
The ordinary menu offers Tacos, Burritos, Fajitas and Enchiladas which are typical Mexican meals. Remarkable is the chicken in chocolate and peanuts sauce. Additionally they also offer American food like Rips, Sandwiches, Burgers, and Chicken Wings.
All in all, I can recommend this restaurant for a Sunday Brunch, but as well to go out eating for an ordinary dinner. Now if your appetite is whetted, you can make your own tortillas with this recipe. If you still can’t get enough and want to try out even more Enchiladas or Burritos, check out these Mexicanappetizers.
Recently I read an interesting article about a special diet. But this time it is not how you can somehow trim your body. Its about aging and how food can influence this process of slowing down or even regenerating our skin.
Good to know:
3 factors determine how young we are looking:
Sun light
Nicotine consumption
Diet (nutrition)
We can influence all three of them. Especially for some groceries we can look for more potential ones that keep us “youngish” and avoid those which are aging to us. In particular food loads of precious active ingredients are contained, which can be labeled as “young” refresher.
And here are 5 examples of a list with 100 groceries that counteract aging processes and 5 examples of a list with 50 groceries that support the aging process.
Food
plus points
Amount per week
Total
Apple
20
Dark chocolate, a bar
10
Strawberries, 6 pieces
20
Milk, 0,1l
10
Chicken breast, 100 g
35
Food
minus points
Amount per week
Total
Honeydew melon
10
White rice, 1 serving
15
Cornflakes, 1 serving
20
Sugar, 1 tsp
10
Coffee(more than 3 cups)
10
Within the “good” fruits are grapefruits which guarantee a botox-like effect. The bittern regulates the cell metabolism and delays the aging process directly in the cells.
Whereas orange juice offends not only the tooth enamel, but as well it weakens the connective tissue which causes early wrinkle formation.
Gummy bears are also often underestimated: ten gummy bears contain 10 grams of sugar. In our blood, sugar reacts with protein to complexes which cause age spots.
So how does this diet work?
With the full seize of the table with 100 positive and 50 negative groceries, you document every food you consume in one week in the table. At the end you count everything together and draw a balance. If you have more than 1500 plus points, you coddle your body well enough. The more plus factors you receive, the greater the anti-aging effect.
This table underlines again, how important it is to eat balanced and healthy food. Not only to stay in a good condition, but as well to slow down our aging as long as possible.
First part for the cheesecake will be the short pastry. Give flour, a pinch of salt and 65 g of sugar into a bowl. Add the cold butter as flakes and one egg and knead the ingredients with a dough hook. At last form the dough to a ball and let it repose for 30 minutes in the fridge.
