Cranberry Vineagar!

Next week I am hosting a dinner for  my husband´s department We are having an italien/mediterranean themed evening! (Will post more aboutt his in the coming days). Today,  for Foodie Friday I would like to share with you on of the party favors.

Cranberry Vinegar

Ingredients:

3/4 cup white vinegar

3/4 cup water

3/4 sugar

1pkg of fresh or frozen cranberries

1 cinnamon stick

Directions:

Bring all ingredients to a boil and then reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes or until the cranberries burst. Let cool completely and then strain through a sieve into the bottle or jars of your choice. This vinegar needs to be chilled until you are ready to use.

Recipe found at www.cdkitchen.com

Happy Cooking Everyone!

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a touch of Gold

Hello Everyone! I realize that Christmas is over, but I thought to share just one more holiday tablescape with you. While visiting my mother in law over the holidays, I found some beautiful stemware in her china cabinet along with some gold bowls and napkin rings. Of course an idea came to mind for a festive and table! Upon returning to Berlin with the treasures in hand I set out to create the following tablescape.

Hope Everyone is having a happy day. Be sure to stop and join my new blog party called 

"New Recipe Sunday"

and as always make sure to take a moment and check out more wonderful tablescapes at 

Between Naps on the Porch

I am also participating in following blog parties:

the Girl Creative

made by you monday

German Championship in cycling in my town!

This weekend we have a live sports event---and the cool thing---all I have to do is look out my living room window and watch the action. Here are a few pictures I took this morning. Unfortunately it is raining off and on so I did not spend a lot of time out there!

I´ll have a green Christmas....

This year, while out shopping with 2 visiting girlfriends I came across little green sparkly Santa Boots....you guessed it, I was inspired! I bought the last 6 I could get (how I wish I could have bought more!) and upon returning home I started to create our 2011 Advent Table!

The glass chargers ( a gift from Mary ) are from the Nachtman Crystal Company

The green wrapping paper that is being used as a tablecloth comes from one of my favorite stores-Strauss Inovation (an after Christmas Sale in 2010!)

The white dishes are my wedding dishes from the Rosental Company.  I love these dishes--we were lucky enough to get a near complete set when we got married---22 years ago!

The silver napkin rings are from another favorite store of mine-Nanu Nana---and get this the first time I saw them on sale they were 50 cents, when I went back a few days later they were only 25 cents!!!

Happy New Year Everyone---I look forward to many wonderful and inspiring tablescapes this year!

Christmas Gifts from friends and families!

I was one lucky "cupcake" girl this holiday season. My girlfriend Adriana gave me cupcake ornaments! My nieces kept the theme going, by giving me pink cupcake ornaments-these with the cupcake liner!

Hope your holidays were a happy time---it is so hard to get back in the swing of things! Wishing you all a great start in the new year.

Margarete

Wow, how can this be the end of December? It is about 8-10 degrees Celsius outside and yet we are celebrating Christmas!

My mother in law moved into assisted living this past fall and I thought it would be nice for her to have some of her own plants to decorate her terrace-we all knew that the plant would not last long it being fall and all, but look it here, it is the 26th of  December and the plant is still blooming! Just goes to show you that global warming has everything under control!

Have a happy day everyone!!