April 2018 – Orla's Kitchen

Pavlova

I absolutely love this dessert! It is my go to dessert when I have spare egg whites, it is easy to make and pretty much everyone loves it!

This particular pavlova I made with strawberries and a strawberry coulis. I thought of adding the coulis to give it some extra flavor and some “juiciness”. The problem of course is, to not make the coulis too runny because it would make the meringue soggy.

It worked out really well, and Mr. Orla, the pavlova expert, really liked the added flavor and texture layer of the coulis.

The Pavlova can me made with any other fruit of your liking, typically berries or a mix of berries work really well because they don’t loose much water, which would change the consistency of the meringue. Also, but that is a question of taste, I find that a fruit with a bit of acidity creates a perfect balance between the sugary meringue and the top layer of cream and gives this dessert the zing to make it a great dessert.

A classic Swiss weekend bread

It’s weekend time! We have some nice weather coming up, the first time this year that it actually gets a bit warmer and it is beginning to feel like spring might actually be coming after all this year. Time to get into the weekly Friday baking routine of making breakfast bread for the weekend.

This is a bread you could just go out and buy pretty much everywhere…not only on weekends, but in many households “the braid”, which is the literal translation of its original name, is THE bread you would find on the breakfast table on a Sunday. In some areas of Switzerland this bread is actually called “the Sunday braid”.

I used to buy our braids…before I got into baking them. Baking it myself has become a ritual for me…it’s the end of the stressful and fast moving week days and it introduces the more laid back and family oriented weekends.

Mr. Orla’s Favorite Garlic and Herb Butter

Mr. Orla enjoys meat. With spring just around the corner and the last of the snow finally melting, it is time to open BBQ season. Yeah…i know, there is not really any such thing as a BBQ season, I mean, a BBQ is great all year around. But we get truckloads of snow here in the winter and unfortunately, winter is much too long for my taste so, we have to take a BBQ break during that time of the year.

BUT! Don’t feel too sorry for us, we have Fondue and Raclette and all those heart and belly warming dishes to help us over that terrible time of year.

Anyhow…took a bit of a detour there…so, Mr. Orla enjoys his meat. But he loves a good sauce to go with it and our go to recipe for any BBQ is Mr. Orla’s favorite Garlic and Herb Butter.

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