Cena Milonis

This weekend we were celebrating my mothers birthday and we decided to make it an ancient Roman dinner. The decoration was cheap and quickly made of paper: We served eggs with a sauce made of ground nuts, fresh pepper, honey, salt and white wine: Mustea, small buns with Marsala and laurel leaves. Here is my …

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Get in the ring: The prince vs. the eggplant

Hello out there! Today we have another of our potpourri-posts. First I want to show a picture of Henry and Milo in one of their fight-plays. And a much nice shot of Henry 🙂 He looks so sweet here, but he is pure evil (at least that's Milo's opinion) And a very easy and short …

Sunny Side up

A warm welcome to my blog! At the moment it's so extremely sunny and hot here, more like July and August are supposed to be... We had our breakfast on the balcony and took a long walk alongside the Danube afterwards... Then we visited our Mum and had her 'Zigeunerschnitzel' It's pork cutlet with a …

Henry slept first – news from the scoundrel front and views of a city far, far away

Some last pictures from Passau: and our little Monsters again:

Essential Kitchenware: Hair dispenser and salivator

We had a lot of cooking and baking going on for Mother's Day and Pentecost, but we had a lot of help, as these pictures show: Henry was cleaning the oven, while Milo baked some bread They also helped us with seasoning....    

Early Summer Jam – to look at, to eat and to pet

Random pictures taken over the last few weeks A great and really easy recipe for asparagus: You just need grilled green asparagus, seasoned with salt and pepper, a crispy fried egg, old white bread, cubed and fried in a pan with crushed garlic, pepper, salt and chili flakes..I love it!! And that's our little sweety …

Comeback with 1001 calories and fire

Hi, I'm back for a short note on our Pentecost dinner, the theme was 'Lenny's Arabian Decadence' with recipes from Persia and Saudi Arabia. On Sunday we had Persian Lamb roast with jeweled rice, rice cookies and baklava. Such great recipes! My bottle of Rosewater is empty by now and I really wasn't sure about …