Month: December 2012

Midnight Milk Punch – Lenka’s suggestion from Paris

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Drinks

Hi Lenka, thank you so much for your suggestion! Your Midnight Milk Punch reminded me of the legendary Eggnog, Cary Grant offered so adorably in “The Awful Truth”. Only that in all the years I tried to serve the Eggnog all my guests denied in favour of some more transparent liquids. But you won’t believe it: just mentioning your name  (so much cooler than Cary Grant!), everybody has been keen to try it. Big hugs […]

Terrace Heart Biscuits

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Cakes + Cookies

My dear friend Mela sent me a recipe of her grandmother and a picture of herself (cute!) as an extra feature for this blog! I was so excited about the submission so I felt rather guilty for taking so long with the actualization of the blog post! Mela, I finally baked the terrace heart biscuits, so what do you think? I must say, they were fingerlicking good!   The recipe (as seen above): 120g sugar […]

making Advent wreathes

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It has already become a great tradition that the day before first Advent my closest friends and I get together to turn fresh pine green, ivy, box, holly and laurel into the most beautiful Advent wreathes. We make wreathes for our doors, for the windows, for the childrens’ school and the typical wreathes with four candles to be lighted one more every Advent Sunday. I’m horribly untalented in tying together the wreathes. My part rather consists in decorating. […]