Farro Salad - A recipe

Finally a new recipe up on Mostly Saturdays. This time our beloved Farro Salad.

Enjoy :)

Berlin II [Food]

Well, and then there was of course lots of good food in Berlin, I didn't take a photo of everything I ate but it was lots I can tell you that :). There are just so many good places and it's really hard to decide where to eat. I really wanted to try so many more places, just means I have to go back soon :)

#1 Hot chocolate and croissant at Bonanza Coffee Heroes just before going to the flea markets
#2/3 Amazing Israeli food at Knaan Express
#4: Some lovely bread at the Bread Station at the Maybach Ufer
#5/6: Wonderful, wonderful cheesecake and coffee at Five Elephant 

Between

Sardinia, August 2016

During the hot midday temperatures we stayed in our cool apartment, napping, eating, drawing and getting for the next round at the beach :)

Lunch Scene

This was a quick lunch on a Saturday with leftovers from the night before and some egg and avocado (that always works well as add ons :)

The perfect red

When I look at this photo all I want is a fresh piece of watermelon

All Day Donuts // Melbourne

Last time I was in Melbourne, my friend and I had to check out All Day Donuts (just before we went to Mr Kitly). Let me tell you that those donuts are really as good as they look. I am dreaming of them ever since I've been there.

We just booked a trip back to Australia in European Winter for five weeks and I will make sure to have a little stop over there :)

From the market

These pictures are from a Saturday morning in Sydney a few months back. Our Saturdays back then were so different compare to those these days. We would wake up early, go to the markets, have a coffee, sometimes breakfast at our local cafe, read a book or in the paper and plan the weekend. Back home we would wash and the get the fruit and veggie ready to be stored. So much has changed since then.
Since Matilda is here so many of our routines have changed but somehow quiet a few have remained similar. In the last weeks of getting to know each other we also tried to find out how to go/adjust with/to her flow but also how we could introduce her to some of our little routines. These days we have to be a bit more organized but we still try to all go together to the markets on Saturday morning, sometimes we manage to grab a coffee together and meet up with friends for a nice chat and often go for long walks around the neighbourhood. And sometimes none of these things work out and we just all hang out together on the couch or in bed, which is also quiet nice.

Weekend Food Shopping

Hello everyone and thank you so much for your lovely comments here and also on Instagram regarding our move back to Germany.

I am so behind with showing photos. These are some I took earlier this year in May when we got our fruit and vegetables at the Local Harvest Collective .

Hope you are all having a nice weekend.

Maria :)

Something new!

Those of you who follow me on Instagram might have already read & seen about our new project. Will and I have been cooking something up (excuse the pun) and sat down together to start a little food blog. We still have to get into the routine of updating it regularly but we are working on it. 

We both love food & cooking and as we mostly find the time on the weekends to try out a new recipes or make and old time favourite we called the blog 'Mostly Saturdays'. 

It is a place where we want to share our favourite recipes, some of the many cookbooks we collected over the years, some we grew up with and some we just came up on our own.  

Have a look & we hope you enjoy it. 

A refreshment

Before we headed South we had a wonderful lunch at the Refreshment Room, if you are close to KareKare beach, I highly recommend to go. We had a really fantastic meal there!

Lots of food & a drink

I got a roll of film back and noticed all the random food photos I took lately. (and also one of Will's drink at his birthday dinner). It is getting Autumn here, v e r y slowly though as it is still over 25C and sunny but officially its Autumn and I look forward for the change in the produce and colder days (hopefully still sunny :)

I hope you all had a great weekend. I did a weaving class yesterday and I am really excited about this craft. Will hopefully be able to show you some results after I am done with my first project soon

Have a great start into the new week,
 Maria

PS for those who are curious :)
#1 roasted beetroot & yoghurt spread
#2 cous cous with herbal paste
#3 a Christmas lunch feast
#4 Ottolenghi meatballs (amazing receipe!!)
#5 an untidy kitchen
#6 Americano
#7 Quinoa salad with avocado
#8 just cooking

A Summer lunch

If you ever come to Sydney, apart from swimming in one of the many pools, please make sure that you also try and get a loaf of Iggy's sourdough bread (in Bronte). It is one of the best sourdoughs I have ever eaten. We are lucky that we have a shop in our neighbhourhood which sells their bread, and it is one of our Saturday traditions to get a loaf, eat the crusty end of the loaf on our way home and make a nice lunch with it. In Summer I love to make a nice broad bean spread which contains, garlic, mint, salt & pepper, olive oil, parmesan and broad beans, which I all pestle to a rough spread in a mortar.

On a Saturday

I love Saturdays and our market visits. At the moment I get particularly excited as all the summer fruits and vegetables are slowly getting back to them. Four photos from a Saturday, of things we bought at the markets, one of my favourite lunches and the couch on which I love to read in the afternoons....

Hope you all had a great weekend.

Maria

Random

The last roll of film I took is full of random little shots.
I remember, that it took my quiet long to get the roll full and now when I look through the photos from different days and moments, it is so nice to think back to all of them. These two where taken on a Saturday when we went to Newtown to have a coffee at the Black Star Bakery, an amazing little cafe which makes super tasty pastries. After we got our sugar kick we went for a long walk around the neighbourhood, this is when I took the other photo. Yes, love often is the answer :)

Hope you all have a great weekend.

Maria

Cooling

A cooling cake I made for a friend on our window sill on a Saturday afternoon in Winter. The tree you see is now full with green leaves so green that our kitchen sometimes shimmers in green light. I hope I can take a proof photo for you soon. I am sitting between half packed bags. I can't wait to go to New Zealand tomorrow.

Grissini

Wile browsing in my archives I found these three photos from someone I really really like making grissini for my birthday picnic last December.

>> two great movies I saw at the Sydney Film Festival, both happend to be in black & white, both of young people in big cities, one Berlin and one NYC, both made me want to travel to both places immediately.

Oh Boy!
Frances Ha 

Food (again)

A few food photos from the last couple of month....

#1 Morning juice (grapefruit, blood orange and orange)
#2 Pistacchio and orange mini cakes
#3/4 Lunch: bakes butter beans, zucchini frittata w/ salad
#5 Breakfast muesli at Pigeon Hole in Hobart
#6 Avocado on toasted sourdough, a favourite
#7 A Tomato soup again at Pigeon Hole
#8 Breakfast yoghurt w/flaxseedoil plums and apples
#9 poached pears w/ vanilla yoghurt and grapes