Hi,let’s enter the new year in big style with – New Year Cocktail Party. We will make our favourite appetizers and sandwiches for finger food and citrus salad for dessert. The appetizers and sandwiches go great with the sparkling wine cocktail of our choice. We decided this year to add that citrus sparkle to our Read More >

Hi, I got a couple of ideas for christmas/yule table settings that I would like to share with you. They are all very natural and simple, and don’t require a lot of decorations. Two of them are formal while the last one is casual table settings. 1. Gold, white and green setting This formal setting Read More >

Hi, I finally have a bit time to finish the choosing sparkling wine series. Although the first part is exclusively for sparkling wines, second part and third part can also be applied to non-sparkling wines. The third part is about the most apparent of properties – sparkling wine colour. Sparkling wine colour Sparkling wine comes Read More >

Hi all,as an Xmas/Yule obsessed person, naturally I want to go all out for the holidays. But with my ADHD cleaning our home for holidays is not an easy task. That’s why I decided to make a checkbox list so I can track what has been done and what needs to be done. This I’ll Read More >

I got the kleingarten! I got the kleingarten! I got the kleingarten! Wooohoooo! If you are wandering what a kleingarten is, it is a small urban garden / allotment here in Germany that you can use and enjoy as long as you pay the rent. I managed to get a kleingarten (in future use garden).  Read More >

Hi,since I’m a succulent and Xmas/Yule obsessed person. It seamed like a logical solution to combine the two things. So I came up with a simple and elegant Advent succulent basket. A bit different take on an Advent wreath. I may dress it up a bit more once when succulents become established.   Needed for Read More >

Hello,winter is on it’s way and the meadows are filled with dead dry plants. So In order to celebrate the beginning of winter and Halloween I made a simple dry meadow plant sinister arrangement. I actually picked them on our way home, I made my husband stop the car when we approached an easy to Read More >

Hi, I wanted to add some colour to my balcony to make the dreary winter days a bit less gloomy. So I planted the berry container with winter and fall plants. They should provide enough colour throughout the winter.  Plant List for the Berry Container In this container I put a lot of plants. I Read More >

Hi, I really thought that I already wrote a post on my delicious spicy pumpkin soup, and was pretty surprised I didn’t. So here it is – my soup of this week – spicy pumpkin soup. Needed for spicy pumpkin soup hokkaido pumpkin (cca 2 lb or 1 kg) 1 L water salt, pepper cayenne, Read More >

Hi, since we’re enjoying the last days of summer I decided to celebrate the late summer with iced afternoon tea. It follow the classical English afternoon tea with the exception of serving iced tea. This iced tea I made by brewing white tea and infusing it with peaches. As a centerpiece we used again a Read More >