Spring is here!

 

Today we had the first strawberries of the year!

 

 

Look, a daisy!

 

Fun in the kitchen

 Today we had big fun during baking

 What do you think about a Mc Backpacker?

Is that an animal 

I is not the beach...

 We helped to cook baked banana....

 

It was so jummy 

Preparations for the Owlparty

 Here is a belated picture of the first of April. In France, this day has a lot to do with fish, it's the most common April fools joke to attach a paper fish to the back of your victim.

 

We helped with some preparations for the upcoming owlparty.

 

 

Later we admired the great postcards Maite got today.

 

Easter in Alsace

We wish you all a happy Easter.

We have caught us two little bunnies.

We have the whole house decorated for Easter.

a beautiful Easter card

we could help to bake a tipical Alsatian Easter lamb.

A stormy windy rainy day

Very bad stormy windy rainy day. Better stay home on the typical alsacian fire place

Macarons

Today we made "macarons". Macaron cookie reciepe dates back to the Renaissance. When Arabs introduced almonds in Europe.

Are they big or are we tiny???

Cant résist to taste them arrrrrrrmmmiam

A french expression says "haut comme 3 pommes" hoch wie 3 Apfel... But Im haut comme 3 macarons...

Did you know that Gingy or Little Biscuit/ptit biscuit, live talkging gingerbread Man in Shrek films comes from Alsace?

In Alsace we call them Manala or Manele that means little man. They are the cousin of your deutsch Dambedei

Day two at Maites work!

Maite quickly draw on a plate for us some "foie gras" with rhubarb

The History of foie gras is very old. We gave ducks and geese already since the Time of the pharaohs and the roman empire with dried figs. Then we gave with corn which was discovered by Columbus in America. We cook foie gras on Alsace since 1778

 

We worked Well. So Maite offered us a "charlotte au chocolat" with strawberry coulis. Charlotte was créated at the beginning of XIX century as à tribute to Queen Charlotte Mecklembourg-Strelitz the grandmother of Queen Victoria....