Fast Foods

Hello everybody,
Today I would like to tell you something about Fast Foods. And I hope you will enjoy it !

I will start with statistics. You can see there which Fast Food has the best Burger and Fries. Do you agree with this ? Write your favourite Fast Food in comments :)

My favourite Fast Food is KFC ( Kentucky Fried Chicken ). But I don´t eat in Fast Foods very often, because it is very unhealthy. KFC was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders. His name and image are still symbols of the company.

10 interesting facts about food :)

Hello,
I chose some very interesting facts about food and I hope you will like it.





1. There are so many apple varieties, that if you were to eat an apple a day, it would take you over 27 years to try them all. ( Also more kinds are produced every year )
2. Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as medicine.
3. Peanuts can be used to make dynamite.
4. October is National Pasta Month.
5. Frank Mars invented the Snickers chocolate bar. 
He named it Snickers after his favourite horse.
6. Chocolate can kill dogs, it directly affects their heart and nervous system.
7.The first soup was made from hippopotamus and dates back to 6000 B.C.
8. When cranberries are ripe, they bounce like a rubber ball.
9. The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia.
10. 16 billion jelly beans are made for Easter. stacked end to end, the jelly beans would circle the globe nearly 3 times.

Pavlova

Dancing like a dessert !

Would you like to eat a dessert named after you?
I would, but I wasn´t as lucky as Anna Pavlova. 
She was a Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries.
 In 1926 she visited New Zeland and Australia. It was a part of her world tour. 
When she was in Wellington, a hotel chef prepared a special dessert dish for her.

 He got inspired by her tutu
 (a ballet skirt ) with roses on light green silk. The dessert was made from baked whipped cream that consisted of beaten egg whites and sugar. To achieve a green color as green flowers on a tutu, the chef decorated the cake by a kiwi fruit.
It was called after the ballerina: Pavlova.

And here is the fabulous recipe:
Ingredients:

For the meringue

• 4 egg whites
• 250g caster sugar
• 1 tsp white wine vinegar
• 1 tsp cornflour
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

For the topping 

• 500g strawberries
• 200g raspberries or blueberries
• 3 tbsp powder sugar
• 350ml double cream

Insrtructions: 

1.  Preheat oven to 150°C, put baking parchment on the baking plate. 
2.  Whisk the egg whites with a hand mixer until they form stiff peaks.
3. Then whisk in the sugar, 1 tbsp at a time, until the meringue mass looks glossy, whisk in the vinegar, cornflour and vanilla.
4. Spread the whipped cream in the shape of meringues on the plate (bake for 1 hr).
5. Then turn off the heat and let the Pavlova cool completely inside the oven.
6. Put half the fruit and 2tbsp into a food processor and make it smooth. Then whip the double cream with the remaining sugar.
7. Spread the whipped double cream over the meringues, put the remaining fruit on the top of it and pour fruit sauce over the whole lot.

Hello, and welcome to my blog :)

 

I love to cook, bake and especially eat, and I hope you also like at least one of those three activities too.  I would like to share with you some of my favourite recipies. There will also be something for history lovers, as I am interested in the origins of food and meals.

So, enjoy my blog !