Feliz Pascua!

Queridos amigos,

Buena Semana Santa!

This Easter day spent in Barcelona is simply beautiful: warm and sunny (not snowy like in Austria). I had a great lunch of light spring dishes with my flat mates. One cooked chicken curry with broccoli, the other rice salad with vegetables and goat cheese, and I baked these cute bread bunnies to eat with fresh guacamole, which I prepare without onion nor garlic because I like it to be fresh and not so heavy.

For the dough you can follow this previous recipe I posted for focaccia bread and for the guacamole here it comes:

Ingredients

3 soft avocados

1 large tomato

2 limes

parsley

salt & pepper

Procedure

Chop the avocados, the tomato (trying to remove the peel), and the parsley and put everything in a food processor. While mixing start adding the lime juice, the salt, and the pepper. Mix well until nice and smooth and refrigerate before serving.

Hope you enjoyed your Easter as well!

Adeu,

✿ Martina ✿

Hofmann

Dear readers,

Hola! As some of  you might already know from my Instagram profile I am in Barcelona and will spend here 4 months, until the beginning of July. So which better occasion to walk around the city and discover amazing pastry shops for my column "on the road"?! I am so excited because I have already seen so many lovely places and can´t wait to talk to you about them.

The first amazing pastry shop I am presenting to you is the Pasteleria Hofmann. A delightful little place, with essential but rustic furniture where the amazing pastries and cakes stand out and look like million dollar jewels. Amongst the many temptations that can be found there are butter, almond, raspberry, and chocolate croissants, brioches with Catalan cream, neapolitans, macarons, lemon, chocolate, and vanilla cakes, chocolates, creamy deserts and bavaroise, marmalades and jams, and so much more...

Hofmann pastry shop is the result of Mey Hofmann´s passion and hard work. Famous in the field of gastronomy, Mey has actually studied economics (like I do!), but was able to follow her passion and get great satisfaction from it. In 2004 she got awarded a Michelin star, earning her international recognition  in the culinary world. This pastry is her latest project and a must for those who consider pastry an art and a treat for the senses.

This magical place has a unique atmosphere and aroma; it melts perfectly with the flair of the Born district and its little alleys, cafes, restaurants, and shops. I can only recommend it to you very warmly. I´ve been there more than once and every time I have been more than satisfied.

Where: 

Carrer dels Flassaders 44

in the Born district

+34 93 268 82 21

When:

Mo-Wed 9-14 and 15:30-20

Thur-Sat 9-14 and 15:30-20:30

Sun 9-14:30

Enjoy! Adeu!

Martina

Piggy New Year!

Dear readers happy new year!

It is a tradition in Austria to give for new year´s eve good luck charms such as piggies, horse shoes, dice, coins, shamrocks, mushrooms, and so on. Big or small, flat or 3D, plastic or wood, nice or kitsch, everyone gets one! 

This year I decided to reinvent this concept in within our family and made edible lucky charms… pizza piglets to have as an alternative yet yummy new year´s eve dinner. I know just how boring it can be to come up with a good feast menu, then go to the supermarket, buy all you need, systematically forgetting something, then go back, search for the recipe, start cooking hours in advance, begin sweating in front of the oven, don´t have enough time to change and get ready properly, ending up exhausted, looking like you got sunburned, and not being able to enjoy the food. So…… I just realised we all love pizza, especially home-made pizza and how easy it actually is to make so…. piggy pizza it was. Great result with very little effort! Everyone loved it!

Here is the recipe. Creativity will do the rest!

Enjoy,

Martina