Silvester.....New Year´s Eve

 Hi Everyone! Today is my day to work from home, so I am taking a few minutes to work on my tablescape entry for the week. This past new years my family traveled back to Cloppenburg to ring in the new year with my mom, my sisters, and their families! I think we were 12 plus Henry the dog! We all love our Christmas Dishes soo much, that we decided to make our Tablescape a New Years Eve with a Christmas Twist!
Dinner was Racellete. As you can see in the pictures, everyone had their own small pan to create delicious treats with, while the top of the racellete was to fry the meat.

 

 

Happy Days Everyone! Be sure to stop by on Sunday and share a new recipe with us!



Linking to: Tablescape Thursday. the tablescaper

Peanut Butter

Hi Everyone and Welcome to New Recipe Sunday----#2 for this 2013!

Today I would like to share with you something soo easy and soo good, you will never buy store bought again....PEANUT BUTTER!  Yes, that´s right...home made peanut butter. So good and what I like is I know what ingredients went into it. Simply peanuts and oil. NO extra yucky stuff

Ingredients:

400 grams peanuts

and a slosh of oil!

Now I used the thermomix to grind the peanuts, but any good quality food processor should do the trick also!

Christmas Day!

Okay, before anyone says anything---I know the table cloth is way too long and very NOT ironed!!! But we were in a hurry and I did not want my nephew-in-law to have to iron on Christmas! By the way that is Timo in the back round---quickly getting some pictures before the gang stormed through the door!

Love the wall unit in the backround.....it belonged to an aunt of ours and I am soooo happy that my niece gets to enjoy it!

The pretty Christmas dishes are from IKEA!

Oh, I do believe these are my favorite of all my decorations!

  

 

Recognize the lantern? Ikea of course and the best part, they have them in lots of colors!

Christmas was a hetic, crazy season this year. The whole family got spent the holidays together in Cloppenburg. All 17 of us! It was the first time in like forever that the entire family sat around a beautiful Christmas Tree.

Linking to: Tablescape Thursday, The Tablescaper

New Recipe Sunday is back and ready to cook!

Welcome Back to new recipe Sunday! Today I would like to share with the cheese cake that I made today. Not quite new, I have to admit, but also not quite old! Today I added a cherry topping! YUMMY!

You can find the recipe in Cynthia Barcomi´s Backbuch or just drop me a note I will send the recipe to you(need to translate first)!

Happy Week Everyone! I look forward to all the new recipes this year!


Linking to: Masterpiece Monday

January 05 2013!

Wow, is it really 2013 already? I certainly do not feel very 2013ish! Yesterday I took down the Christmas decorations....was it not just yesterday that I put them all up? Well, no sense in dwelling on it, time to jump with both feet into 2013, before another year slips by on me.

For the better part of December, I have been absent from Blogger world. Simply too much going on--at th office an at home and well then came the holidays and we were off to Cloppenburg(about a 4 hour drive to celebrate with family. You see, this year was something special......my mother was able to spend Christmas and New years with all her daughters and of course the husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends, grandchildren, and great grandchildren! Heck, even Henry the dog was a part of the party.

In the coming posts I would like to share with you some of the new recipes(New Recipe Sunday Blog Party here at cook bake love), some great tables(Tablescape Thursday at Between Naps on the Porch) and even a little pink!(Pink Saturday at How Sweet the Sound)

the stars of our family....the kiddies!

May 2013 be YOUR YEAR! 365 days to make lots of fun tablescapes, try out recipes, and make some special memories.  For my family 2013 marks some highlights. My husband will retire in May(Lord, stand by me!) and my son turns the big 18!!!!! Lots of planning for me to do. I pray that we all stay healthy and happy. Here´s to 2013! CHEERS!

St. Nikolaus Day Dinner

Happy Holidays Everyone! Here is my first holiday Tablescape...sure hope you all like it and that it inspires you to create a special tablescape of your own.

My Christmas Dishes......

love my tablecloth...red poinsettas....

Love the Christmas Bulbs.......

Happy 2nd Advent...take time and check out more great holiday tablescapes at....

Between Naps on the Porch
the tablescaper

and of course check the following blog parties for more holiday inspiration.....

Wow us Wednesday
Feature yourself Friday
Masterpiece Monday
Lets Dish Wednesday
Show and Tell Friday


and be sure to stop by this Sunday, for new Recipe Sunday here at Cook Bake Love

a wonderful surprise

What a wonderful surprise I found in my mailbox this morning---a package for me! Now,you are probably wondering; mail on Sunday? Of course that was not the case, we just didn´t check the mailbox yesterday! And, I am sort of glad we waited till today, because I was having a blue day and this package put a great big smile on my face. We used to live in cloppenburg where we had the best landlords one could ask for. Berni and Lisa were not only our landlord, but also my second set of parents. Their oldest daughter Gaby lives in Berlin and recently we all were able to sit down and have dinner together. Well, the package was from them! 3 handmade wooden mushrooms(Berni is a carpenter), made from a tree out of Gaby´s backyard! Double good! This package once again reminds me that I have family and friends scattered allover this world and that distance does not stop me from feeling so very loved by all of them.

Although, not pink I still wanted to share this picture with you on this Pink Saturday