Trip to Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany - part 1

Very nice historical city.

Beef stew - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients:

• 400 grams of beef
• 2 eggplants
• 2 zucchini
• 2 bell peppers 
• 3 onions
• 2 carrots
• 200 grams of green beans
• parsley
• 500 grams of tomatoes or 200 grams of tomato juice

Chop the carrots and the onions and let them fry for 10 minutes, mixing from time to time.

Add the meat and half of glass of water and let them fry for 10-15 minutes.

Add the eggplants, the zucchini, and the bell peppers and let them boil with 200 milliliters of water for another 10 minutes.

Add the green beans and boil them for 10 minutes.

Add the chopped tomatoes or the tomato juice and let them boil until ready.

When is ready you can add above the chopped parsley.
Bon Appetit!.

2010 Christmas market in Offenburg, Germany (photos)

A small Christmas market with all the typical German products:

Trip to Offenburg, Germany

 A small city with nothing out of the ordinary:

Hotel review - Gästehaus Gerda, Bad Peterstal, Germany

We just came back from a one week holiday in Black Forest, Germany.

Our accommodation for this vacation was a Bed & Breakfast with very nice owners. We did not speak German and they spoke only German, but we still understood each other and we had a very nice time.

The room was big, clean and bright. The breakfast was good and contained various types of cheese and meat products, some fruits and vegetables, butter and jam, and of course, tea or coffee. 

For more information you can go on their site

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Cinnamon biscuits - recipe (including photos)

The original recipe can be found here:

Ingredients:

• 2 eggs
• 150-200 grams of brown sugar
• 200 grams of butter
• 350 grams of flour
• vanilla sugar
• 1 spoon of cinnamon
• baking powder
• salt

Mix very well the butter with the brown sugar.

Add the eggs and the vanilla sugar and mix them.

Add the cinnamon, and the baking powder mixed with the juice of  half of a lemon.

Add the salt and the flour and mix them very well, until all the flour is incorporated.

The dough will be sticky and soft.
Make little balls and press them a little bit with the hand.

Put them in the oven at 170 degrees Celsius for 10-15 minutes.

You can eat them with tea or milk.
Enjoy!

Snowing, snowing, snowing