i’m wishing you a soft glide (that’s what we call it in german) into the new year and a very happy 2014! a bit early, yes. but i thought we’d much rather start the new year with food, right? ah, i know you well, dears! so for the last day of this year i wantedContinue reading
the holidays were nice, but also, a bit testing… for my ability to be alone and bored, mainly. but a clever person once told me that boredom is the root to new creativity, and so it feels. and, well, now that the life is back to the city, people are out again, my lust forContinue reading
christmas is officially over, when you spy ‘fasnachtschüechli’ - a type of carnival pastry; basically deep fried crispy dough cakes with lots of confectioners’ sugar - at the shops. is it just me, or is time just going too fast? with no possibility to adapt, in due time? this was the cake i made forContinue reading
i was visiting london the weekend before christmas, with a group of girl friends. and though london has so much to offer in every regard, from museums to shopping (of course) to culture and sights in general, we were mainly after food. i still think that sounds kind of pathetic. but looking at these picturesContinue reading
lovers! i hope you are enjoying the holidays with your loved ones? as this is an (unsurprisingly) long recipe, you might not want to listen to more of my rants. well, lovers, it’s just this delicious, rich, decadent, warming, wintery, red winey stew and you, now (after a day worth of cooking, haha). absolutely makeContinue reading
checkered plate and boots from en soie merry christmas to you! merry and bright, cookies and love. in switzerland, most families celebrate on the evening of the 24th, the holy nigh, with dinner and gifts and church. well, it’s tonight! i can hardly believe it. it’s never to late to whip up a batch ofContinue reading
tonight, i feel blessed beyond measure. i’ve spent the most beautiful birthday yesterday. my besties surprised me with a birthday photo shoot! at home, with a professional photographer. it was seriously cool! i’ve really taken to being a model, haha. in the evening, friends were visiting for a nearly christmas dinner party “en famille”. we wereContinue reading
checkered place setting with gold dots from en soie one more work day to go, and i’m officially off for two weeks! two. weeks! after this year with only one week of proper holiday, i am more than ready for this time out. it feels like so much time, that offers so many possibilities! itContinue reading
aaaa… london! we had such a fun trip, and, though the city, naturally, was packed with people, it was actually quite relaxed, too. i had this revelation only recently, where i thought, you know, how it’s so much more fun and easy going to be among my besties - than (any of my past) boyfriends.Continue reading
i go slightly crazy over scones, you know (go see the section ‘scones, biscuits, tea time’ in my recipe index, it’s pretty obvious then). so much so, that a tea time at the fanciest hotel in zurich (it happened only recently) disappointed me slightly. and that’s although we didn’t even have tea for tea, butContinue reading
