9 de maig 2005

The Fat Lady Sings

Location: Obere Karlsstrasse, Erlangen, Germany
Opening hours: most of the time
Prices: above the Erlangen average, but still OK
Overall Rating: One of my favourite pubs



What do you say about a place where they play songs like The Menstrual Rag, have a good steak, fish and chips, have homemade chips, sandwiches, devilish hot pizaas and good beer? It is run by a fun irish-man, if he isn't bringing your beer it's one of the nice waitresses. Just a fun place to be, a nice pub. We need more of these, definitively.

8 de maig 2005

Tomato Soup Cake

I found this recipe in a book called "The New York Cookbook". It sounded so strange, I just had to try it... It's amazingly good.

Ingridients
125g vegetable Fat (in Germany this is "Palmin")
250g sugar
1 large egg
300ml Tomato Soup (canned or freshly made...)
250g Flour
1.5 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. Cinammon
1 tsp. freshly ground nutmeg
0.5 tsp. ground cloves
1 dash of salt
60g walnuts
90g raisins

Preparation
Heat the oven to 180°C.
Whisk the vegetable fat that it gets a bit foamy. Join in the egg and the sugar, mix it until it gets a homogenious paste. Add the tomato soup, then join all the dry ingridients, mix until it looks like pastry. Fill in a cake tin and bake for 40-45 minutes. Cover with icing sugar.