Recipe / Tiramisu

Finally I could prepare one of my favorite desserts here in Seoul, to surprise my husband Gabriel coming from his business trip. The recipe is really fast and easy! 

So here it comes:

Ingredients (4 persons):

Lady finger biscuits (about 2 packages)

250gr of mascarpone (one portion from the supermarket)

4 eggs

60gr of sugar

A fingertip of salt

Lemon juice

Coffee

Cocoa

optional (Contreau, Grand Manier or a similar sweet liquor)

1. Make the coffee first so it can cool down. If you make a strong one you can dilute it with water. Add sugar if you want.

2. Divide the yolk from the egg white and put them in separate bowls.

3. Mix the yolks with the sugar and the mascarpone until you have a smooth cream.

4. If you like add two tablespoons of the liquor of your choice

5. Mount the egg whites adding a little bit of salt and a hint of lemon juice to help the process

6. With a spoon mix carefully the whites into the rest until you get an homogeneous cream.
7. Put the coffee into a flat container and if you want dilute it with water
8. Take the ladyfingers one by one and immerse them into the coffee just enough that they don't break
9. Adjust the biscuits into a rectangular bow
10. After one layer of biscuits cover the entire bowl you can distribute evenly the cream until you can't see the layer of biscuits anymore.
11. Repeat the layering one or two times more depending on how deep your bowl is.
12. Distribute the cocoa on top of your last layer of cream.
13. Put the Tiramisu in the fridge for about an hours before you serve it.

And then ... Enjoy it!

Tiramisu in Italian means "Pull me up", sort of wake me up. I guess the name comes from the fact that it has coffee in it! So...actually you can eat tiramisu for breakfast since it has a lot of good ingredients to make you start the day.
My mother would prepare it for dinner and we would them keep a part of it for the next moorning. Believe me, it's awesome to start the day with a good tiramisu!

Platoon Kunsthalle

Platoon Kunsthalle is a cultural space for artists to work, for exhibitions and cultural events.
I went last week for the first time and I regret not having gone before.
There is a vast program of things going on in the Platoon spaces. They have parties, events, movie time and a good bar and restaurant space. As an artist you can even rent space for your work.
There is a strong collaboration with Berlin, where there is also a Platoon Kunsthalle.
I went to an internations event and a few days after to a Short Movie Festival event (picture above). There are always nice and open people. A lot (a lot!) of foreigners but also Koreans and people are very open minded to meet each other.
They have a big terrace and I guess when the weather will be better it will be awesome to hang out there.
Generally the architecture is quite cool. The whole building is made out of ship containers opened up and changed to very different spaces inside. Apparently it got a lot of prices in 2009 when it was built.
The food is quite simple but it's German cuisine! Which is hard to find here in Seoul. They have Schnitzel (German cutlet), Käsespätzle!, Flammkuchen (a traditional German sort of pie/pizza), Bratwurst and other good stuff! And of course German beer!


I will go there for sure more often!


Here you can find more information:


http://www.kunsthalle.com


Platoon Kunsthalle
gangnam-gu / nonhyeon-dong 97-22
seoul . republic of korea
tel: +82-(0)2 -3447-1191~7
fax: +82-(0)2-3447-1198
email: mail@kunsthalle.com

Pizza in Seoul / Casantonio

Casantonio is one of the best Italian restaurants in Seoul! I wish I could go more often. They have delicious pasta and good pizza. And a lot of things I miss from Italy that found only there. The owner, Antonio, is very often in the restaurant and very nice! He told me that their prosciutto cotto is home made as several other things. They have buffalo mozzarella and burrata.
Since I live in Gangnam and the Casantonio is in Itaewon I can't go as often but it's totally worth it! They often host events where wines are presented or musical entertainment is offered.
The prices are high end but not exaggerated. It depends on what you order. Of course when you look at the card you would like to order everything they have on the menu!

http://www.casantonio.co.kr/

Casantonio

2F, 124-6 Itaewon-dong, Yongsan-gu,

Seoul, South Korea

Tel: 02-2794-8803

Bread in Seoul / Retro Oven

Brezeln in Seoul! German Bread in Seoul!

It is not so easy to find good bread in Seoul. The chain Bakeries have usually just baguettes and the rest is just pastry. 

Growing up in Germany I am very spoiled with the huge variety of bread and especially Brezels. The real ones, not the American versions.

So I was very happy to find Retro Oven. It's a small bakery in Gangnam who's chef has learned to bake in Germany and came back with awesome recipes for good quality bread.

Since the bakery is quite small and hidden in the Gangnam neighborhood, you can order the bread in advance instead of going there spontaneously. Often they are sold out very quickly.

They offer from country loaf to ciabattas, of course the German-style pretzels, croissants and delicious buttery pain de chocolate. The prices are quite high compared to other standard bakeries but it's totally worth it!

Gangnam-gu, Nonhyeon-dong 254-22

02-544-9045

Exit Gangnam-gu Office Station (Line 7) Exit 2. Walk to the first corner with a steep small street and take a left. Walk 5 minutes and when you see a GS25 on the corner, on the first floor you will already smell the bread!

Pizza in Seoul / D'Buzza

I love pizza. I'm an Italian, what else do you expect?

That is why I always try to find in Seoul the best pizza place!

Today I went to D'Buzza pizzeria for lunch and I really really liked it. The dough was perfectly baked and the ingredients were very tasty. We were 3 so we ordered a Pizza Bufala, Pizza quattro funghi with truffle oil and a parmiggiana. All three dishes were very good. I would say, one of the best pizzas I've tried here so far. All the pizzas a re baked in a wooden oven.

They also have Italian drinks like San Pellegrino lemonade which pleased me a lot!

The restaurant is quite small so it's very packed at the rush hours. You can make reservations in advance during the week. In the weekend you just have to be patient and add your name to the waiting list.

The owner and the cooks are all Koreans but they have learned it very well to make pizza! The two waiters that served us spoke perfectly English.

http://www.buzzapizza.com/

D'Buzza Pizzeria

743-33 Hannam-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul

서울 용산구 한남동 743-33

Tel:02-794-9474

E-mail:buzzapizza@buzzapizza.com