Greetings from Bella Italia

June 1st, 2018 | main dishes

The temperatures keep up with Bella Italia, the bright colours of this Italian Minestrone soup make you happy. When snipping all the fine vegetables you can almost see him in your mind’s eye: Luigi, who rattles with his red Vespa on the Tuscan country roads. Close your eyes and dream a little bit about Italy… A light meal for those hot days, a feast for all the senses.

Italian minestrone

(serves 4)

4 spring onions

4 celery stalks

1 kohlrabi

400 g potatoes

1 big carrot

1 red pepper

cut vegetables into rings or cubes

1 handful of Brussels sprouts

cut in halfs

4 TS olive oil

heat, sauté the vegetables in it

2 ts brown vanilla sugar (see tip below)

sprinkle over the vegetables, caramelize

100 ml white wine

deglaze

600 ml chicken broth (preferably homemade)

add, simmer for 10 minutes

4 TS pesto

½ bunch of basil, cut into strips

ciabatta or baguette bread

arrange the soup with one tablespoon of pesto per plate and strips of basil, serve with the bread

and this is how the wife of the captain does it

I spice up a lot of dishes with vanilla, because vanilla does not only fit in desserts, but is also a very delicious spice with hearty treats. I put each scraped vanilla pod in a tin box with brown sugar, which quickly assumes the wonderful vanilla flavour. A teaspoon of this sugar is often the icing on a dish.

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April 3rd, 2018 | on the road

At the kitchen table with Dirk Seiger

The captain had his birthday and invited his loved ones to a very special place: The kitchen of the star chef Dirk Seiger in the gourmet restaurant “Buddenbrooks” in Travemünde on the Baltic Sea. And it’s true, the most beautiful parties always take place in the kitchen!

Schwarzer Fahrradrahmen mit weißem Anker und der Aufschrift "Deck 1"

March 6th, 2018 | Landgänge

Shore leave Lisbon: Breakfast in Belem

A special way to get to know foreign cities and countries is a visit to a bakery or pastry shop. The variety of different types of bread and the selection of the most diverse pastries regularly lure my captain on a discovery tour to the most beautiful pastry shops in the world. One of them he found in Lisbon, namely the Pastéis de Belém. The good: from the cruise ship, it is very easy to reach by bike or on foot. Here is the captain’s shore leave recommendation: “Breakfast in Lisbon”