Wednesday 7 December 2016

Lavendel biscuits

Lavendel biscuits

Couple of months ago, when I had my birthday, my neighbours gave me some self dried and wrapped lavendel as a present. Since the it has been sitting in our kitchen corner and trying to tell me I should use it for something. Well, I decided finally to "roll my sleeves up" and do something with that lavendel. I found a nice and easy sounding recipe in Internet on site Ichkoche. After small changes I was ready to try it and it worked out great. Even Hubby who normally doesn't care for lavendel though that the biscuits were good. So guess what I'll give for my neighbour as a christmas present :D

A beautifully packed present I got from my neighbour

Lavendel biscuits

250 g wheat flour
130 g butter
1 egg
 130 g sugar
2 tbs (about 2 g) dried lavendel
pinch of salt

for the top
egg wash
dried lavendel
decorating sugar 

1. Rub the cold, cubed butter togeter with the flour
and throw in the salt.
2. Place the sugar and the lavendel in the mixer and let run
for couple of minutes until the flowers and sugar
are some what fine.
3. Foam the lavendel sugar with the egg
4. Add the egg foam to the flour mixture
and mix into a dough
5. Let the dough rest in the fridge for about one hour.
6. Roll out the dough and cut out the desired biscuits
7. Brush with the egg wash and sprinke with lavendel
and decorating sugar
8. Bake for about 5 minutes in 200 Celsius.

Biscuits in the oven

Enjoy!

A late afternoon stroll with the Cutie

Sunday 4 December 2016

Christmas magic in Zürich

Zürich is a lovely christmas destination. I have been there twice inside couple of days. First with Hubby and Cutie and two days later with Cutie, my sister and her friend. My sister was visiting us for one week. During that time she also drove to München for a few days and visited the Christkindlmarkt there. She actually thinks that the christmas makets in Zürich were more enjoyable. I wouldn't know because I have never been to München in christmas time.

We have a tradition that every year shortly before christmas we visit Zürich to enjoy the nice atmosphere. Before we used to go to the moves and have dinner afterwards. All the moves playing in the cinemas close to us were dubbed so the only change to watch any with an original audio was (and probably still is) is to go to Zürich. Last year we even stayed over night. Now, with the Cutie, the movies are obviously out of the question and so are fancy dinners as well. Well, it doesn't matter because we just enjoy the walk around the town, the lovely christmas lights and great foor at the christmas market on the Sechseläutenplatz: Wienachtsdorf. We were there already last year and this year it was even better. There are loads of food in offer like Flammlachs, curries, fancy burgers, peruvian food etc. This is the place to go for a foodie. Here are some pictures to inspire you to visit Zürich.

On the Bahnhofbrücke

Hirschenplatz

Hotel Storchen in the front and the tower of St. Peter behind it.

Grossmünster

Ice rink on the Sechseläutenplatz

Bellevue and the christmas market on the Sechseläutenplatz

Christmas lights on the Bahnhofstrasse

Paradeplatz

An animation film being projected to the wall of the UBS building.

Christmas market in the main train station

Christmas market on the main train station

Paradeplatz in the day light

Bahnhofstrasse

Bürkliterrasse

Quaibrücke

Christmas market on the Sechseläutenplatz

In front of the ice rink

A merry-go-round on the Sechseläutenplatz

Christmas market on the Sechseläutenplatz

Peruvian food in the christmas market

The menu

Lomo saltado

Indian food in the christmas market

One of the many christmas trees in Zürich

Lake Zürich

River Limmat and Grossmünster