I hope you’re all having a nice holiday season so far! It’s about two weeks until Christmas and I’m getting into the mood. In Germany, we celebrate the “Adventszeit” in the run up to Christmas with an “Adventskranz”, a wreath with four candles that get lit up in the four Sundays in the run up […]
Apricots… if you ask me, so much better than peaches! I mean, I enjoy the taste of peaches but the skin just freaks me out. I know that apricots have a skin not too dissimilar but for some reason they feel totally different to me and my tongue. And they’re prettier than peaches too. Their super bright […]
June is a strawberry month in England. You get tasty strawberries in all the shops but sometimes I drive out to a farm to pick them myself. Strawberry picking always reminds me of the summer holidays when my cousin, sisters and I used to do this with our grandmother. The farm I go to here […]
Now that it’s summer, even I can’t always have sweet cakes for brunch and breakfast. Baking is also not that great an idea if the apartment is already heated up through the sun… If it’s warm I feel like something lighter instead, something without the carbs and without cream or butter as cutting the calories a […]
For my last post in this year, I have chosen to let you know how to make the tastiest winter warming dish of baked apples stuffed with marzipan, almonds and apricots. I am in Berlin at the moment, where I saw one of those nice old, tiled ovens the other day, typically for Berlin, where […]
The Sweetest Brunch 