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Best’est’ apple dessert ever

A sea of apples I can’t believe I have only made this dessert once before: the Tarte Tatin. All you need are a few delicious apples, butter, sugar and – for the quick-hack version – some frozen puff pastry. You don’t even need a recipe (the one in my first try was kind of weird anyway). Still here’s what I did:

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Automatic Wisdom

It would have been wise to fully use the automatic system and refrain from modifying stuff somewhere deep inside the generated results and thus undermining the automatics.

This neatly explains the trouble I have had the past few days to deploy something on two different systems that should have been equal … should have . . . → Read More: Automatic Wisdom

Stumbling over ssh

Naturally this stumbling happened just after me saying “Oh I think I have finally worked out how system XYZ …”

So my new linux distribution (ubuntu in case I had not mentionned) does not install sshd by default. It took me just about half an hour to realize that one.

Of course why should . . . → Read More: Stumbling over ssh

Scary Roast Cooking

Or rather scared cooking? There are some things that I have never tried and it scares me to just think of cooking them. Yesterday I prepared for a most dangerous undertaking … my first ever try to prepare a big roast that was not a chicken. Somehow I never got around to taking a big lump of meat and … do anything but cut it to pieces for some kind of stew.

There are other scary things like preparing any kind of bread dough … but preparing a big roast is right on top of the scariness scale.

Not only did I finally dare to try make a nice pork roast … I went ahead and did it without recipe as well … so here comes my personal recipe.

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Menu à la Maison

Kürzlich im Buchladen. (In der Tat gehe ich da ab und zu hin und kaufe nicht alles nur über das Internetz, insbesondere Kochbücher muss ich durchblättern vor dem Kauf). Wie meistens stehe ich vor dem Regal mit der Sorte Bücher von denen ich schon viel zu viele habe und wie üblich habe ich doch . . . → Read More: Menu à la Maison