Brownie Cheesecake from Ramona, the photographing, travelling Diabetic

Brownie Cheesecake Recipe - A juicy cheesecake topping with a chocolatey brownie base. Foodstyling by Purple Avocado

Today I want to present to you a person, with whom I’m somehow befriended. She is the proof that online friendships DO exist and that The Sims connects people. Ramona and I met indeed at an  online forum for the PC Game The Sims. Yes, back in the day I was a little ‘mono-gamer’  (sims 2 […]

Okonomiyaki, Cats and Cosplay with Senta

Classical recipe for Okonomiyaki by Senta. I was petting cats and Senta was cooking japanese - for my series 'Food from Friends' a culinary journey to friends. Now on Purple Avocado.

Okonomiyaki This unpronounceable word was still foreign to me – until I made myself a home in Senta’s living-kitchen area where she cooked for us while I cuddled with her cats. I would find out soon enough that ‘okonomiyaki’ would become an inherent part of my vocabulary. (Cat photos can be found at the end […]

Ramen & Onigiri with June

Basic recipe for ramen and onigirazu

In June I visited June from Food is Taking over in Berlin. June became a very dear friend of mine in the past years. Even though we know each other since school days, our friendship didn’t start to grow until I moved to Dortmund and she started studying in Berlin.

Sesame fish sticks and Matcha Cupcakes

Together with Mimirosefoodlove I made delicious fish sticks in a sesame crust on a summery salad with spinach, asparagus, avocado and tomatoes with a soy rice dressing and matcha cupcakes with coconut cream and berries. Find the recipe for the salad on Purple Avocado and the cupcakes on Mimirosefoodlove.

Food from Friends enters the second round. This time I visited Mimi and Rose from Mimirosefoodlove. Food from Friends is a project dedicated to the joy of cooking and savoring in company. From time to time I get to visit people I appreciate or strangers I want to get to know and together we prepare their […]

Korean cooking with Dennis

Dennis showed me how to make the perfect crunchy tofu in the pan. Apart from that we made korean spinach salad and Tteokbokki. Food from Friends is a project dedicated to the joy of cooking and savoring in company. From time to time I get to visit people I appreciate or strangers I want to get to know and together we prepare their favourite dish. You can see the result of our efforts in the form of a little story with a recipe here on Purple Avocado.

Food from Friends is a project dedicated to the joy of cooking and savoring in company. From time to time I get to visit people I appreciate or strangers I want to get to know and together we prepare their favourite dish. You can see the result of our efforts in the form of a […]