Ok, the colours are not a 100% natural, but doesn’t it look sooo cool? It reminds me of the luxury of a hotel breakfast on the warm side of the globe, drinks by the pool and big fat hot summer…. Take 1/4 watermelon, cut in small cubes a handful of ice cubes 1tbs freshly squeezed lemon juice sugar to taste depending on the ripeness of the melon ( I prefer it without sugar; it’s […]
Believe me, this drink has been a real challenge to photograph! Due to the mixture of the violet acai berry powder, the dark orange quince sauce and the green portulaca leaves it quickly adopted an uninviting brownish greyish colour (just like a facial mud pack!) I took two nice glasses we inherited from Grandpa – those with the silver rims, poured in the drink and decorated it with pieces of beautiful apple skin. Now a […]
We didn’t wait for the first signs of a flu to sip a cup of linden blossom tea, this summer’s harvest. It is a gift from friends from Lipniky, a tiny slovakian village, which precisely got its name from an enormous old linden tree. And talking about linden blossoms: did you ever smell a linden tree in full blossom? It’s intense, dizzying, luring, evoking jasmine and tuberose….. Lucky the one who can sleep the siesta […]
Recently strolling through the delikatessen of Karstadt, a Dresden department store, we found the perfect tool to prepare an “instant Bellini”: a small bottle containing pureed white peaches for longdrinks. The season of whites peaches is short, so it seemed to be worth a try. (In case it wouldn’t have met my high expectations – there are always dessert creations calling for an extra ingredient.) To mix the original Bellini, invented more than half a […]
Today I complained about being uninspired. My daughter just saw one way out of this creative drought. Ever since I had a sip of this spontaneously created raspberry cocktail, things started moving. My creativity galloping away ( – me clinging on), pulled me into new terrain. The topic of discussion for the night has become profane : “is the primitive contrast of red and green enough to stimulate the demanding readership of my blog?” Here […]
Right now, I feel like in Scotland. Pouring rain, the forest has never been this green, some cows escaped from the field and greeted us blocking the road (just sub sheep for cow and you get the true scottish highland feel). Someone else must have thought so too: Georg Schenk, the owner of Augustus Rex Distillery is already internationally known for his selection of noble spirits. He stuck to the old German varieties until this […]
Finally the nights have become warm enough to inaugurate the Barbecue season. No better holiday feeling than heating the charcoal, mixing the sauces and preparing the lots of meat we normally abstain from. And of course, our guests had to be introduced into the pleasures of a well-prepared Leapfrog.
Since strawberries are in full season now (we can pick them ourselves in endless strawberry fields nearby), I have been looking for some more exciting recipes than the familiar cakes, creams and yoghurts. Here is the result of my research: The STRAWBERRY SORBET comes from David Lebovitz’ book The perfect Scoop, the best ice cream book I ever owned. Every so often I prepared it, it disappeared in the twinkling of an eye. Believe me, it’s […]
The peppermint plantation in my garden is ripe and ready to find its way into the cocktail glasses… For 2 glasses of irresistible-dazzling-turqoise Leapfrog take 6 mint leaves 4 parts Gin 1 1/2 parts lemon juice 1 part Blue Curacao 1/2 part sugar syrup 2 dashes Angostura Bitter In a mixing glass, muddle the mint leaves with the sugar syrup, then add the rest of the ingredients. Shake with ice cubes and strain into a […]
Our new favourite from now! As I’m convinced that the malevolent Ehec germ lives neither in spanish cucumbers nor in our regional vegetables, I fancied trying a cocktail with fresh cucumbers. The Intro To Awesome Punch has been created by Jane Danger, head bartender at Cienfuegos, a spin-off from the owners of Death and Co., a cocktailbar located in the East Village of Manhattan. The Punch mixes best while listening to this music How to […]