happy saturday
Month: May 2011
summertime potato soup
My grandfather loved it because it was reliably followed by a cake or by sweet yeast dumplings with a divine salty crust. My mother continued the tradition and we all loved it. I am the one who changed it for just potato soup accompanied by baguette, some olives, a bit of pizza or what else the kitchen offers. The quick and easy way! Potato cucumber soup 4 tbs olive oil 4-5 spring onions, chopped about […]
White Lady
Sunday’s cocktail comes on a bad-weather-Monday! However, are you ready for a summer series of fresh sours and punches? Being the White Lady still a true classic, my next drinks will come along much more creative with fruit, cucumbers and herbs muddled in the syrup and the spirits. Ah? Do I see that some of you are raising the eyebrows? Don’t worry, Paul Carr, an English composer and big aficionado of cocktail mixing, once taught […]
on painting
In the end it’s all about pigments. Their origin , their amount, their very special character… As for wall painting I’m addicted to the colours of Farrow&Ball. They are so subtle, so elegant…. Yes, I know, I know: it’s a personal and an emotional thing. However I’m happy that we now have a stockist in Dresden. Time to think about a makeover for my guest room, west-oriented, with a big red-leaved tree in front. So I […]
Italy street peek
