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Thursday, 11th September 2008
Say farewell...
And now it comes what has to come: today the summer will say “farewell” with a last warm and sunny day - at least the weather forecast did say so.
That means the last time swimming, the last time wearing summer clothes and the last enjoyment of an ice cocktail in one of the nice Italian coffee shops around. It´s always the same and not unexpected: after the more or less beautiful summer follows the autumn and then the cold winter.
To prepare myself for the coming cold days I went yesterday for shopping intending to purchase warm clothing.
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Tuesday, September 2nd 2008
To the Baltic Sea and back
Two weeks vacation, leaving behind business and stress. Two weeks piece and recreation. Two weeks sea and sun.
I love to go South for holidays. But this time the family was the winner. I had to go North. The target was the island Hiddensee located in the Baltic Sea. We rented a house for the estimated two weeks. The location was ideal. The front-side of that house was facing the blue sea and the beautiful white beach.
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Thursday, August 14th 2008
It´s a must in summertime: inventive summer salads – simple and quick
I do notice again and again: Bavaria is beautiful and I have the privilege to live in the most beautiful spot of this country. Five lakes are around nearby, to Italy it´s just a stone´s throw and you can see the mountains. What do I need more? I live on a place where other people are spending their vacation.
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Thursday, August 7th 2008
Dozens of Summer-Parties
…and it happens again: I got an invitation to a summer-afternoon- party accompanied by the well known request to contribute something to the cake buffet.
Slowly the repetition of these procedures are growing to some kind of nightmares for me. Even in my dreams now rotates a new kind of a merry-go-round existing out of cook books, summer-parties, recipes and again summer-parties. Constantly I have to think about what kind of food stuff I can take along with me to the different summer invitations of the Karate-club, the football club the summer-party of the kindergarten or the school and... and... and....
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Thursday, July 31st 2008
Original Bavarian and real tasty: the "Obatzda"!
What can be better and more beautiful than a summer day in Bavaria? The sky is usually white and blue the temperature is about 30 degrees centigrade and everybody who has not the pressure to work is spending his time at one of the many lakes around or in the shadow of the old chestnut trees of a beergarden together with his beer mug and the typical Bavarian foodstuff.
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Thursday, July 24th 2008
A dinner for trial – may I taste?
It´s summer and happenings are taking place everywhere.
Parties, events and many activities matching with the summer spirit – the pages of my diary are filled up with appointments. Would I have not fitted my timetable on the kitchen wall showing in huge letters all this dates it may happen to miss one or the other. Mostly is this free time-stress accompanied by the request to contribute something to the buffet like salads, finger food or cakes. And by god everybody knows that I am fulfilling this expectations.
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Thursday, July 17th 2008
Weekend - Cakestime!
The weather is awful – it´s raining cats and dogs. But I am able to enjoy myself – I scroll through the pages of my different cookbooks. Well, I can do something else but somehow I do love such kind of entertainment more. If I do not read I enjoy my second passion: I cook or bake.
Just last weekend I tried a new recipe of a “Red Currant Meringue Cake”.
The motive to do that were the many callers at my TV-editorial office asking for such a recipe. Of course we presented already quite a lot of recipes but no Red Currant Meringue Cake.
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Thursday, July 10th 2008
A good idea: Homemade Italian Beef Carpaccio
Many times we read in the menue of Italian restaurants: Beef Carpaccio! But honestly speaking – I don’t know anyone who ever had the idea to make beef carpaccio himself. The excuses are always the same: “I cannot cut the meat in the required thin slices as I do not have the right cutting facilities” or “I even don’t know, what kind of meat has to be used”. Hey? It is absolutely simple – believe me!
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Thursday, July 3rd 2008
About European Football Championship and Coriander Quiches
Ok, ok, we lost the final against Spain in the European Football Championship. Never mind! I am sure next time we will be on the top. But instead of being too sad we will concentrate on our new recipe: a coriander-quiche. For instance: you expect some friends for watching football on TV. Why not offering a coriander-quiche to them? It is easy to prepare and it tastes absolutely delicious.
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Friday, June 27 th 2008
Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana...
... then I can bake a banana bread. I’m sure, Harry Belafonte also wanted to bake a banana bread. ‘Cause we – he and me – know that it tastes delicious and is healthy.
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Monday, June 15th 2008
A touch of Italy in my kitchen
Italy – I think of Venice, Calabria, Tuscany, olive grove, umbrella pines, fishing villages, Italian antipasti, pizza, pasta, a mild summernight in a little restaurant with a view to the piazza, a glass of wine and soft music. Do I have itchy feet? Or do I simply fancy Italian food? Both!
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Monday, June 9th 2008
Strawberrytime – how to make jam easily!
For breakfast I just need a cup of tea, a soft boiled egg, a bun (called “Semmel” in Bavaria) and a tasty jam. Nothing else! And because of the fact, that I eat a bread or a bun with jam almost every morning, I have to make a lot of jam each year. But I do not make jams just for me – no, jams are also a nice small present, when I call on a friend. So I collect all kind of jars in order to use them for making jams.
And now it’s strawberrytime – that means: now it’s time to make all kinds of strawberry jams, that cross my mind.
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Monday, June 2nd 2008
A cold drink for hot days
It´s hot! The thermometer rises to 25 or 30 degrees centigrade and some days even higher. The desire to cool ourselves down is tremendous high. From inside as well as from outside. The best thing would be to jump into the cold water and have afterwards a cold drink.
As there are lots of recipes for cold drinks available I am going to offer you one by one.
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Thursday, May 29th 2008
There is nothing better than Bavarian soft pretzels!
Have you ever baked your own soft pretzels? You’ve never thought of baking a pretzel and you haven’t got the recipe? I can promise: you will never have better soft pretzels than those ones you bake yourself. Yes, I know, what I’m talking about. I did it! And I will do it again! It’s not that complicated you might think. No, actually it’s pretty easy.
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Friday, May 23rd 2008
Fiesa – the world most famous Sandsculpture-exhibition
The planning yesterday was to visit the Sandsculpture-exhibition near Armacao de Pera and a typical Portuguese restaurant in Guia. But planning and reality are sometimes different.
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Thursday, 22nd May 2008
A delicacy of fresh smoked fish
Yesterday the awaited event took place – we started to smoke a salmon trout which we purchased at a local market.
When I said: we, I wanted to say :my father, as he was the man of action. Of course I watched carefully all his movements related to the preparation to convert a normal raw dead fish into a delicious piece of enjoyment. And this was really exiting.
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Saturday, 17th May 2008
Let´s go South
Back again in Portugal!
In spite of the beautiful spring days in Germany I dare to leave my home country direction south. Two weeks of holidays including sun, sand and the blue sea – two weeks Portugal, lucky me!
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Wednesday, 08. May 2008
Beer gardens are calling....
A beautiful day yesterday, a beautiful day today and according to the weather forecast the next days will be beautiful, too. Do you guess, what did I do with such a nice day yesterday? You just hit the point! I visited the beer garden. But not anywhere. Living close to the Ammersee, I prefer, of course, a location near the waterside.
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Friday, May 2nd 2008
Hey, spring ist back ….
Actually the winter wasn’t really cold but it seemed to be much longer as usual.
The spring was overdue. And here he is. Fresh green, colourful flowers and even the smell of our world reflects the wonderful change.
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April 22nd 2008
Wellness – my dream of recreation
I have to admit, even I like to be pampered. If you ask me where and how, I would say, a good hotel will do it, but better is, of course, a hotel combined with extraordinary wellness facilities. If you think now I am in the second half of my life, you are mistaken. And this is most probably the reason why I am not so fond of curing in “Bad Wörishofen” or in the well known cure-hotels in Niederbayern. I like to go to Italy or better to South Tyrol.
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April 4th 2008
Memories
Sometimes you listen to a song and suddenly you see - or better - you feel the past. Memories which are firmly tied with this melody. If you are lucky these memories are pleasing and you do love to remember. This happened to me some times ago. During the clean up and sorting out of old obsolete stuff in my house I found some old tapes. You know the very old ones where even matching record players are very rare. But I had one. So I did not hesitate to activate the old machine and was very anxious to listen to the music recorded on that tape. And now the merry-go-round of memories started twisting. Wham (”Wake me up before you go-go“ und “Club Tropicana“), Earth, Wind and Fire (“Ladies’ Night”), Tina Charles (“I love to love”) und Jimmy Cliff (“Reggae Night”).
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