Roots!

My veggie box blessed my with a real winter veggie mix today: a beetroot, oranges, clementines, carrots, chicory, white cabbage and - turnips! So for dinner it was turnips with carrots and beef.

Here's how I prepared it:

1. Cut two turnips, two carrots and one onion into smallish dice.

2. stir fry in sunflower oil, add about a cup of vegetable broth and simmer until the veggies are done and the broth is reduce to a minimum amount of liquid.

3. add about 1/4 pound of ground beef and stir fry (not for too long, it should stay juicy)

4. season with freshly ground pepper and a fair amount of salt.

Mine looked like this:

YUM!

party preparations II

Chilling the vodka - the very early first snow is good for something!

party preparations I

Lighting the candle

Vacation!

Long time no read over here - because I was on vacation!


View from the hotel in Athens:




At a winery at the outskirts of Athens:

"The Breakfast Club" in London:

London Shoreditch:

Chard with Bratwurst

1. cut chard (Mangold) in small pieces, wash, steam
2. in a pan, fry a sliced onion and one or two sweet apples, cut into small pieces, in sunflower oil
3. cut two fresh sausages (grobe Bratwurst) into pieces and fry with onions and apples
4. add steamed chard
5. season with salt, pepper and some sugar

Fall

La Traviata live at the Zurich train station

If you like classical music or simply cool, innovative art events, you might be interested in a project that is live on arte TV right now. arte is a German-French-Swiss culture television channel. They are having a live broadcast from the main train station in Zurich where a performance Verdi's La Traviata is taking place. Yes, in the middle of the train station. With a full orchestra, and a normally running train traffic. It's amazing.

You can watch the video stream online for another three weeks. Go here for the performace itself and here for a stream of the performance from behind the scenes. You can read more about arte at http://www.arte.tv/. The site is available in German and French.