Raindrops are on the window panes, gray sky, barely 20 degrees . Summer. Where are you? We would love to make ourselves comfortable on the couch now, to eat our favorite candies and just shut out the weather frustration.

Much better: We cook us something beautiful and it is not just anything, but a great dish that conjures up our summer and all the wonderful memories of the last holiday back to the heart.

Tortellini salad, with our recipe, the holiday now goes into overtime.

Tortellini salad

Ingredients

for 4 servings

• 400 g tortellini with cheese filling
• 1 shallot
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 50 g bacon
• 3 tablespoons white wine vinegar
• 150 ml vegetable stock
• 2 tablespoons capers / from a jar
• 1 tsp runny honey
• 100 g cherry tomatoes
• Salt, freshly ground pepper
• 50 g rocket / arugula
• 1 small radicchio
• ¼ cantaloupe / like Galia melon

Preparation:

Prepare tortellini according to package instructions. Then give Tortellini on a sieve, pour in cold water and drain.

Pull shallot and dice finely. Fry bacon crisp, remove and drain on kitchen paper in a heated pan.

Put olive oil in the pan and heat. Sauté shallots until translucent. Stir in broth, vinegar and honey to the pan, season with salt and pepper. Drain the capers and stir. Mix tortellini with the dressing and allow to cool.

Arugula, cut thick stems. Wash arugula, pat dry or spin dry. Radicchio clean, rinse and drain well. Cut lettuce into bite-sized pieces.

Rinse, dry and halve tomatoes. The stems approaches to cut out. Core, peel and cut the flesh into cubes melon.

Mix lettuce, tomatoes and watermelon pieces with the tortellini. Salad again to taste with salt and pepper. Bacon coarsely crumble, arrange salad with it.

Tip: This salad is perfect for a summer party. The tortellini with the dressing can be prepared the day before. Just before the guests arrive, the salad then season to taste, maybe even add a little broth and oil and mix in the remaining salad ingredients.

Plum Recipe

Autumn time and plums – they just belong together. When the days outside are getting shorter and we look forward to getting cozy at home, the fruits are finally on supermarket shelves – and make us tidy like to Plum recipes as delicious cake with crumble, crumble with custard – but also on Hearty such as plums wrapped in bacon or chicken, to which the stone fruit is well-timed.

Did you plums recipes that you do every year? Mostly these are precisely those who have made ​​Sundays on the coffee table our mums or grandmas in our childhood. Dick sprinkled with crumble dough, fruity, juicy and sweet they awaken still wonderful memories.

Plum cake with cinnamon sprinkles

Ingredients:

• 5 kg plums (depending on size)

For the base:

• 200 g margarine
• 175 g sugar
• 2 packets of vanilla sugar
• 4 eggs
• 125 g sour cream
• 5 sachet of baking powder
• 375 g flour
• Butter and flour for sheet metal

For the filling:

• 500 g low-fat quark
• 200 g crème fraîche
• 150 g sugar
• 2 packets
• Custard powder

For the mixture:

• 300 g flour
• 150 g sugar
• 175 g butter
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon oil

Plum Flan

Ingredients (4 people):

• 400 g prunes or plums
• 3 eggs
• 150 g Quark
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 5 tablespoons sugar
• Cherry water