Last weekend, we took advantage of a good weather after a long week of snowing and went sledding. We’ve already been on the Wallberg hill for hiking before. This time we used the cable-car on the way up and we sledded down the hill. We borrowed sleds each separately, but later we agreed that next time we’ll sled together as it requires an appropriate weight. Andrej was faster and he didn’t “fly” after each bump on the road.
This recipe is from my mummy. I like apple cakes and pies in general, but this combines also some nuts, raisins ans cinnamon and it’s just really tasty. Ingredients: 450g plain flour 125g Butter/margarine 1tsp baking powder 200g icing sugar 4 yolks 1tsp lemon zest 1tbsp cacao powder Filling: 7 smaller apples, seadless 2tsp vanilla sugar 2tbsp granulated sugar 70-100g chopped walnuts 70-100g raisins ground cinnamon 4 egg white Directions:
This year’s St. Nicholas evening we played an interesting game called A white elephant gift exchange with another about 40 people. There was St. Nicholas personally near the Christmas tree too obey the rules. :) Shortly, the point of the game is to bring some inexpensive (can be humorous) present nicely wraped. The bigger amount of people play the game is funnier. Everyone obtains one number that determines his present choice order and the same number are inserted into some bowl.
Walking in the park in winter, especially when there is snow everywhere, is absolutely fantastic. Although only until the sunset, because then it starts freezing properly and it is better to hide even in the subway. As I haven’t been in Englischer Garten at the time of snow, we went there during the last weekend. Originally, we wanted to go sledging on the nearby hill, but the season was just opened and so we concluded that there would be too many people anyway.
During the weekend, we went to the Christmas markets. There are quite a lot of them in Munich. Basically, each Munich neighborhood has its own market. We went directly to the Marienplatz in the centre. There were many stands decorated with green boughs and colorful lights. They offered many things, among others, wooden ornaments and toys, candles and Christmas hats. I was really impressed by one stand that offered all sorts of wooden things ( cutting boards, spatula, etc.
This is one of those recipes, which are really easy to prepare and it is also a nice opportunity for the spinach to be spent :). I did many changes to the original recipe. However, I think there are still loads of possibilities for improvements and adaptation to different tastes. Ingredients (for 24cm baking form): general stuff 1/2 cup flour 1/2 cup creme fraiche (I usually use the whole 200g package) 1 cup milk (I use finely shredded potatoes for the richer version instead) 4 eggs butter for greasing to taste
After three years, this year’s advent is special for us. Finally, we don’t plan Christmas as a common holiday after long months, when we haven’t seen each other. We actually live together, enjoy snow and we’re not stressed whether I’ll be stuck somewhere at the airport due to bad weather. Finally, I got rid of the school and writing of my thesis (although I’ll certainly begin to think about my defense in the next year) and I started to enjoy winter.
Finally, we managed to go to gather mushrooms, what we dreamed about all the summer. We dressed properly, put hats on our heads, equipped ourselves with baskets and knives and set off into the forest. Besides youthful mushrooms peeping out of the ground we found also lots of old, mouldy or dried mushrooms and we obviously came at the end of the mushroom season, but we still managed to gather a nice amount of healthy ones and when I consider three-hour walk through the forest, we were very satisfied.
Once again, we travelled to Slovakia to see our friends and family, to gather some mushrooms and to enjoy a feast in Cerova, but especially to go to the Andrej’s brother wedding. The wedding took place in Castel Pension in Mierovo. Although I don’t know how the old manor house looked like before, I think its reconstruction was really successful. I was especially enchanted by a garden, which despite its relatively small dimension looked very spacious and thanks to various nooks with a touch of autumn very cozy.
200th anniversary of the Oktoberfest is over and people in traditional costumes are slowly but surely disappearing from the streets and the subway, so people like us dressed only in jeans and T-shirt don’t look like tourists anymore. Although we haven’t been in the beer tent on the Theresienwiese, we didn’t miss parade at the launch of this year’s festivities. There were horse drawn carts with barrels of beer and venison, but also agricultural machinery and many brass bands.