Orange, lime, garlic, cumin and paprika barbecue chicken Ingredients Chicken Marinade Method Ralf Note This one is more Argentina-style. You stand there like a small soldier of the chicken. Turn it round, turn it round, baste it all the time. Baste: a very important word for civilisation.
Spatchcock piri-piri butter chicken for the barbecue Ingredients Chicken Piri-piri butter sauce Method Ralf Note This is not a press-button-and-go-away chicken. You must stand there. Look, smell, turn, paint, turn, paint. A barbecue is a relationship.
One question opened my kitchen. Twenty years later, my wife’s sport opened a world I never expected to love. By Ralf The First Question The first important question was not very romantic. “Are you the former husband of S—the man who can cook so well?” That was what my wife asked me when we first…
Ralf’s lasagne replaces the white sauce with more slow-cooked Bolognese, a serious amount of garlic and enough cheese to make even a reheated portion feel like a highlight. The Mayor was slightly disappointed with me. After a busy Sunday, there had been no new culinary adventure in our house. No barbecue, no special restaurant and…
A weekend of old traditions, early starts, a determined wife and one sleeping man showed me that rest is not always doing nothing. Sometimes it is knowing when to step forward, when to step back, and when to let the sofa win. Sunday Begins at 4:30. On Sunday morning, my wife came into the bedroom…
The Mayor asked what I had cooked during the weekend. On Saturday, my wife and I had eaten in a nice Italian restaurant in Bremerhaven. On Sunday, however, we ate convenience food. The Mayor stopped everything. “Just one moment. Mr Ralf Brand says he ate convenience food.” He spoke as if I had announced the…
Ralf on fresh air, morning songs, quiet rooms, midnight thoughts, strong coffee, and the small things that help him wake ready for life. The Mayor said he found it difficult to imagine me sleeping. I understand this. I am normally doing something. I am cooking, driving, talking, planning, singing, looking at a machine or thinking…
Serves 2 My Surf & Turf began with an email from my specialist meat supplier. They had lobster tails at a very good price, so naturally I looked at the website. While I was looking, I discovered a cut of meat I did not know before: Chuck Eye Steak. Chuck eye comes from the neck…
Ralf’s active-rest weekend included running shoes, a carbon bicycle called Forrest, Spanish food, an impossible hotel room, and two people who enjoy life in completely different ways. This began as a conversation about active rest. But it became a conversation about marriage—about how two people can be very different, give each other space and still…
Chicken marinated with soy, sesame, ginger, garlic, spring onion and kiwi Ingredients Chicken Marinade Method Ralf Note The kiwi matters. You think maybe it is not necessary, but then the meat tells you the truth. Cooking teaches with your teeth.
