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I am having some visitors who are staying in our house for one week. 

I realized that I will not be able to  post much - but I'll be back!

Till next time!

    ♥ Emilie's daughter   ♥

Longing for summer holidays

Longing for this... on Mondays especially! ;o)

  ♥ Emilie's daughter   ♥

via Pinterest 

Cheese cake...

Let's dig in and enjoy it's lemonlike freshness!

Our plates in the end: Empty!
Our bellies: Happy!

I made this cheese cake yesterday morning - really early as we were expecting some guests for coffee.

The result was delicious and pleasing.

 It's worth trying it especially as the recipe is dead-easy and not much work.

Bottom:
200 g ladyfingers or rusk
1 pinch of salt
50 g butter, molten


Filling:
200 g crème fraîche
250 g low-fat curd
Vanilla sugar
4 eggs, yolks and egg-whites separated
160 g sugar
1 tbsp cornstarch
1 organic lemon, peel and juice


For the bottom crush the ladyfingers resp. rusk in a food processor or in a plastic bag using the rolling pin. Add the liquid butter and a pinch of salt, mix and spread on a bottom of a springform baking tin (26 cm). Grease the ring of the tin and put it all in the fridge.


For the filling mix the crème fraîche, the low-fat curd, vanilla sugar, the egg yolk, sugar, cornstarch and lemon peel and juice. Beat the egg white until stiff and fold in the crème fraîche mixture. Pour this mixture onto the ladyfinger resp. rusk bottom of your springform tin and put in the preheated oven at 180°C for about one hour. After baking let cool in the fridge and decorate with fresh fruits.

Happy Sunday everyone and thanks for visiting me!

    ♥ Emilie's daughter   ♥

A taste of Italy - part 5

That's how it all started - with beautiful squid 

and prawns...

flat leaf parsley

courgettes

and pasta leaves

Paul did all the cutting

... while I did all the cooking

this is what it looked like in the end - it tasted simply deliciously and so Italian!

This recipe from Anna of A Taste of Italy is worth copying (like all her recipes by the way!) The preparation is dead easy and quick! Just as we like it on a Friday evening.

You'll find the recipe on Anna's blog.

What else can I add to that? 

Well, maybe to have a glass of chilled Italian white wine or maybe even two...

♥ Emilie's daughter ♥

A joke a day...

keeps the doctor away!

My younger son is doing some research at school and has my camera with him the whole day. So no chance to take any pictures at the moment!

I hope you enjoy this singing sea bass - a friend of mine has one in her kitchen and when I visit him it is always a pleasure to press the button and sing!

   ♥ Emilie's daughter  ♥

A moment of peace

... while projecting your thoughts into this garden. It's the paradise of our friend Ina.

To me this pic is a like a painting and therefore will not add any other photo. 

I took more shots and will publish them on another occasion.

I hope you are all having a sunny day. 

To my dear readers from the States: 

Happy 4th of July!

xxx

  ♥ Emilie's daughter  ♥

Tailor's dummy

I love these elegant tailors' dummies and would not refuse to decorate 

my bedroom or entry with one of them!

See you tomorrow!

 ♥ Emilie's daughter  ♥

via web - do not remember where from, sorry...

Jeff Koons at Fondation Beyeler, Riehen Basle

The other day we went to see Jeff Koons' work at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Basle/Switzerland. Hereafter some words about him:

"Jeff Koons (b. 1955) is one of the best known and popular artists of the present day, who since the 1980s has caused a furore with art that refers directly to current pop culture. The Fondation Beyeler's Koons exhibition is the first ever to be shown in a Swiss museum. It focuses on three extensive groups of works from different periods, each of which lastingly shaped the development Koons's oeuvre". (credit www.museumspass.ch)

Unfortunately I was not allowed to take pics in the museum and I therefore refer to a You Tube video:

I love his balloon dogs! They have something cheer- and playful about them. 

One of his work I absolutely adore are the tulips

and the cracked egg...

and his paintings of cakes. If you stand close to the painting you'll see that what looks like foil now, is a kind of trompe l'oeil. It looks only shiny from far. I was also amazed how real the biscuit is painted - when standing close one sees that it's the structure was painted in small dots. A warden of the museum told us that at the preview such pieces of cakes were distributed to the visitors. 

My friend Ina has come close to Jeff...

Winter bears

Outside the museum the split rocker - thousands of flowers - ingenious!

 

"Naked" Split rocker...

I assume you all know the puppy in Bilbao. That's where I "met" Jeff Koons the first time.

Another flower - the balloon flower -

Meet the artist...

If you have the chance to visit the exhibition - do so. It'll last until September 2, 2012 - see here.

Well, it's time for me to have coffee - excuse me!

 ♥ Emilie's daughter  ♥

PS. Dear Fiona from Raindrops and Daisies:

 I have sent you all the sunshine to Ireland 

(that's why it is rainy here) 

and I hope it has arrived and you enjoy it to the fullest!

source Fondation Beyeler, igougo, google