Our dear friend and passionate cookbook writer Anne-Katrin who holds a degree in romance languages and literature, was raised in Brussels, the home town of the European Union. She has traveled a lot and all the different styles of European and more exotic cooking are familiar to her. In 2005 she and her four children settled in Koenigstein, near Frankfurt. Her cuisine encompasses the best recipes Europe’s cuisine has to offer. Anne-Katrin loves to entertain her friends and family and besides being an excellent host, she teaches children and grown-ups the art of cooking.
Her award winning cook book titled “Die Leichtigkeit des Kochens:The Lightness of Cooking – A Host’s Cookbook” has been published by “Haedecke” in 2006.
The second cook book of Anne-Katrin’s published by “Haedecke” in 2007 titled “Das Männerkochbuch:A Men’s Cookbook – Adventure in the Kitchen” has turned into a best-seller.
In September of last year “Knesebeck” published Anne’s “Fit for Cooking” - the ultimate kitchen training shows the importance of a functionning kitchen with all its ingredients to become the perfect “chef”!
ANNE-KATRIN SURA writes:
Inspired by “Cooking for kids with love” hosted by dear friends Jigyasa and Pratibha, I am sharing some recipes that my mother used to make for us children – when the summer was hotter and the cherries sweeter…made with love and in big amounts ingredients are easy and affordable even on a larger scale) – because we were many and always had other kids around!
Summer Tomato Soup - this is how summer tastes!
The pure and intensive taste of beautiful, ripe summer tomatoes is so tempting and uniquely intensive, that there are never any left-overs.
1 onion
3 cloves of garlic
1,5 kg summer ripe tomatoes
1 teaspoon of sugar
Slightly stew the chopped onion and whole garlic cloves and add tomatoes (cut into small pieces) and slightly cook with pot closed at low temperature for an hour. Put everything through a ricer, add pepper and salt – voila the soup is ready.
You can add freshly chopped basil, a tad of fresh cream and roasted croutons. This excellent soup is the prefect addition for every fine dinner.
a picture of my mom with my 20 year old daughter!
Hot apples – magic of childhood
This is a recipe with hot apples and the lovely scent of cinnamon! A classical dessert that we eat more in winter than summer (because it is hot, but goes with almost every menu).
1 apple per person
1 tablespoon of cranberry jelly
a little bit of butter
1 pinch of cinnamon
1 tablespoon of almonds thinly sliced
some vanilla ice cream
Wash the apple and take out carefully the apple core, without breaking the apple. Put some cranberry jelly in the hole, a little bit of butter, some cinnamon and almonds.
Preheat the oven and bake the apples at 200°Celsius ind the middle of the oven for approximately 30 minutes. Really yummy with vanilla ice cream!
Tribute recipe by ANNE-KATRIN SURA, Introduction by Jigyasa
Hi, love the tomato soup and hot apple recipes of your mother. Anne, thanks for sharing.
What lovely recipes — my mom used to make baked apples too, when we were small — thanks for bringing back that memory I had forgotten