Mixed Drinks with Wine and Sekt

• 300 Gramm geschälte Kartoffeln
• 100 Gramm Wurzelgemüse
• 100 Gramm Waldpilze
• 1 ganze Zwiebel
• 1 ganze Knoblauchzehe
• 30 Gramm Speckwürfel
• 40 Gramm Margarine
• 750 ml Brühe
• 200 ml Sahne
• 1 Zweig Thymian
• nach Belieben Petersilie, Butter, Salz, Pfeffer, Muskat

Clean, wash and finely dice the root vegetables. Finely dice the onion and garlic clove and finely chop the thyme. Sauté the diced bacon with the margarine in a pan until lightly browned, add the diced onion, garlic, root vegetables and thyme. Sauté, add the stock and cook for 2 minutes.

Finely grate the potatoes, add to the soup and cook for a further 5 minutes, add the cream, season and flavour. Clean, wash and chop the mushrooms and sauté in a pan with butter. Season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with chopped parsley and pour over the soup when serving.

• Riesling (trocken)
• Riesling (halbtrocken & feinherb)

• 1kg Weißer Spargel
• 200g Mehl
• 4 Eier
• 150ml Milch
• 1TL Butterschmalz zum Braten
• 2EL Butter
• 1 Zitrone
• 1 Prise Zucker
• 1-3 Schnittlauchröllchen zum Garnieren
• 1 Für die Soße:
• 150g Butter
• 50ml Sahne
• 50ml Sekt
• etwas Salz und Pfeffer

Mix the flour with the eggs, milk and a pinch of salt to make a smooth pancake batter. Leave to soak for 30 minutes.

In the meantime, peel the asparagus and cook in salted water with 2 tbsp butter and a pinch of sugar until al dente. Drain well and keep warm.

<p>Pour the pancake batter in batches into hot clarified butter
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pour into hot clarified butter. When the underside is browned, use a fork to scrape into pieces. Finish frying until the pieces are golden yellow.

For the champagne-butter sauce, bring the cream to the boil, reduce slightly and stir in the cold pieces of butter (walnut-sized). Add the sparkling wine and season to taste with salt and pepper.

<p>Arrange the asparagus on pre-warmed plates. Add the kratzete, drizzle with the sauce and garnish with chives.

<p>Wine recommendation:

A mild and dry Gutedel or a delicate Kabinett wine from Riesling or Pinot Blanc.

• Gutedel (trocken)
• Riesling (brut)
• Pinot Gris (brut nature)

• 750 Gramm Butternut-Kürbis(se)
• 3 kleine Zwiebeln
• 2 Zehen Knoblauch
• 1 Becher Crème fraîche
• 250 ml trockener Weißwein
• 500 ml Gemüsebrühe
• 25 Gramm Parmesan oder ähnlicher Hartkäse
• 400 Gramm Spaghetti oder andere Nudeln
• nach Geschmack Salz, Pfeffer, Zucker
• 4 EL Kürbiskerne, evtl. gehackt
• nach Belieben Muskat, Thymian

Sauté the garlic and onions until translucent. Dice the butternut squash and add, season with pepper and sugar. When the cubes are still firm, pour in the white wine and vegetable stock. Continue cooking until the squash is firm to the bite.

In the meantime, cook and drain the pasta.

Add the thyme, nutmeg, salt and crème fraîche to the boiling pumpkin, bring to the boil and thicken. Stir in the parmesan and season to taste. You can also crush some diced pumpkin to make the sauce sweeter.

Arrange the pasta on plates and top with the pumpkin sauce.

Sprinkle with pumpkin seeds.

• Scheurebe (trocken)

• 2 Stück Eigelb
• 60 ml Ziegenmilch
• 500 Gramm weiße Kuvertüre
• 125 ml Sahne
• Abrieb und Saft einer halben Orange
• 2 cl Tresterbrand
• 8 Blatt Minze
• 125 Gramm Mehl
• 50 Gramm Zucker
• 70 Gramm Butter
• 2 Eier
• 1 Messerspitze Backpulver
• 1/2 EL Lavendelzucker
• 175 ml Milch

Semi-frozen goat's milk: Beat the egg yolks and goat's milk in a bowl over a hot bain-marie until creamy. Remove from the bain-marie and beat the cream until cold. Flavour with the zest of the orange and the marc brandy.

Liquefy the couverture in a bain-marie and stir into the lukewarm egg mixture. Whip the cream until stiff and carefully fold in. Line a parfait tin (triangular or gutter shape) with cling film. Pour in the mixture and smooth out. Cover well with cling film and leave to freeze in the freezer for at least 8 hours.

About 20 minutes before serving, remove the mould from the freezer and turn the parfait out of the mould. Remove the foil and cut the semi-frozen parfait into 8 slices.

<p>Lavender wafers: Lightly mash the butter in a mixing bowl with a fork. Add the sugar and stir a little. Add half of the milk, the lavender sugar and the baking powder. Stir in the eggs and finally the rest of the milk. Mix everything well with a hand mixer for about 2 minutes to create a homogeneous, slightly liquid mixture. Bake the batter in batches in a waffle iron until golden brown.</p

<p>Arrange 2 slices of semifreddo on each waffle on a flat plate and decorate with mint leaves.

• Riesling (halbtrocken & feinherb)