mood board combining reminiscences of summer and first autumn vibes Images 1 ⎪ 2 ⎪ 3 ⎪ 4 ⎪ 5 ⎪ 6 1. Five tips for taking photos in low light by Danish lifestyle photographer Christina Greve 2. Tips to draw better in six minutes: The Line-Fine Art Tips (I love this video!) 3. What does Bach’s Cello Suite N°1 in G-major taste like ? by Salt and Straw 4. Do you know Hipster Barbie […]
Don’t worry, I won’t write my blogposts in Spanish from now. Pepino and albóndiga have been my daughter’s favourite words in her first Spanish course. So funny, so strange, so absolutely not similar to their fellow cucumbers and meatballs in German, English or French. In the end, both nouns happen to match quite nicely in real life. The albóndigas in our recipe are crispy veggie balls, being best when you flatten them to the max – the flatter the crispier! […]
Galette or crostata, a rustic pie crust filled with fruit, is the tastiest and easiest way to cope with an abundance of ripe apples, plums and figs. Be it your homemade pie crust or the store-bought puff pastry you take as a bottom, the result will always be amazing. Over the time I learned a few tricks to turn the galette into a true delicacy. 1. macerate the fruit in 1 or 2 tablespoons sugar for at least 1/2 hour […]
I never load my suitcase to the top and I detest to have to deal with heavy hand luggage . To be honest I don’t like hand luggage at all. Wherever I travel I love to only carry a handbag. Over the time a few items crystallized to be my travel essentials: besides the necessary money, phone, passport they are: my travel camera a thrilling paperback a soft woolen scarf good quality noise-cancelling headphones Grown Alchemist Hydra-Mist Elizabeth […]
In Bali we got to enjoy Ketut’s Dadar Cake, a Pandan scented crêpe filled with coconut and palm sugar syrup. We loved it so much that we had it nearly every morning for breakfast together with a fruit plate and a freshly opened coconut. It made me more than happy that one day Ketut invited me to join her into the kitchen to give me a master class in dadar cake cooking. I tried to make it […]