Trip to Berlin, Germany - part 2

Probably what's characteristic for this city is grandeur.You do not have the usual city centers with small streets, old timber frame houses. Everything's big and bigger.

Trip to Berlin, Germany - part 1

This year we've been for the first time in Berlin. We did not like it too much. However, it's good to visit it once in a lifetime. It's something else compared to your everyday city.

Misha cake - recipe (including photos)

This is an old recipe from my mom's cookbook, but I have no idea why this cake is called  "Misha" .

Ingredients:

• 5eggs
• 150 grams of sugar
• 150 grams of wheat flour
• 4 spoons of cocoa
• 150 grams of butter
• 300 grams of milk
• 1 vanilla pudding
• 1 spoon of vinegar
• 8 spoons of water
• 7 spoons of powdered sugar
•  vanilla sugar
• baking powder

Beat the egg yolks with 70 grams of sugar and 5 spoons of warm water.
Beat the egg whites with the remaining sugar.

Over the egg yolks add 2 spoons of cocoa, the baking powder mixed with 1 spoon of vinegar and the flour and mix.

Add the egg whites and mix.

Pour the composition in a tray and put it in the oven for 15 minutes at 150 degrees Celsius.

In a separate bowl mix the butter with 5 spoons of  powdered sugar and the vanilla sugar.
Meanwhile mix the pudding with the milk, following the instructions from its box.

Add the cold pudding over the cold butter and mix.
Put the composition in the fridge for 20 minutes.

After you made different forms from the composition, cut them in the middle and add the filling.

For the glaze mix at slow fire 3 spoons of water with 2 spoons of powdered sugar and 2 spoona of cocoa.
Add the glaze over the cake as you want.

Enjoy!

Opera Comique - English theater in Luxembourg from 22 to 26 November 2011

A comedy at the Abbaye de Neumunster, 5 nights in a row at 20:00 from 22 to 26 November 2011.

Presented by BGT.

Presentation of the play can be found here.

Tickets: EUR 15 per person.

Autumn is here!

This week-end we've prepared for the winter.

We gathered some walnuts, quince and apples from trees in the city.

Mantelsonndeg 2011 - today in Luxembourg

Shops are open today in the city from 14:00 to 18:00, for the traditional Mantelsonndeg.

This is a reminder of the days when, the Sunday before the All Saints Day, people from the villages came into the city to buy their coats to get them through the winter.

Hot chocolate - 2nd recipe (including photos)

If you didn't like the first recipe, or if you found it resembles too much to a pudding (like we did), we propose another recipe.

Ingredients

• 100 grams of chocolate
• 200 grams of milk
• salt
• sugar (only if needed)

Melt down the chocolate at slow fire or preferable over the steam from a bowl with boiling water.

Mix at slow fire the melted chocolate with the milk and salt (if you use dark chocolate, add the sugar).

Enjoy!

Trip to Taranto, Italy

Taranto is a really sad city, with one of the most rundown historical city centers we've seen in Italy. A pity for the importance this city shows it had in the past.