December 2011
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Glühwein
Christmas markets and Glühwein were always nightmares to me. Terrible curation of market stalls and very bad Glühwein. I couldn’t believe that there wasn’t a proper recipe which does justice to this popular mid European drink which is like a hot sangria haha
I’m not a fan of cinnamon, but think it’s very essential for Glühwein. I’ve googled my way and found a few...
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The Godfather I: Clemenza Spaghetti Sauce
My love surprised me with some Christmas movies and proposed to stay home last Saturday to relax. He didn’t came back with Beethoven, Home Alone, The Holiday or another romantic comedy, but The Godfather Trilogy hahaha.
I never watched it because I thought it was too macho, violent and didn’t want to go into the ‘its-classic-hype’. And yes men love this movie, because of...
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BabyCakes book to the rescue
A gift tip or a life saver? Well, both I guess. My sister bought the Babycakes NYC book and we tried some vegan recipes out. I totally fell in love with the raspberry scones and couldn’t believe that something without animal ingredients could taste that good. Tasted terrible vegan cupcakes before and am happy to hear and taste that vegan can be good too.
The recipes are so easy to...
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Stop the water while using Lemon Honey
Another gift tip with an awesome, yet simple concept: Stop the water while using me soap from Germany. I always turn off my water as a habit, but think this lovely soap is a nice way to remind you doing it.
Suckers for food, fragrant beauty products, simplicity and graphic design will love these next to their sink. A simple item which says a lot!
For the Dutchies, The Lemon Honey Soap 200 ml...
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Always bring your Coffeespot
I received this present @Nalden HQ and was so happy that my Wine Record book finally had a friend! Another must have for in your analog world made by Not too Arty from Belgium.
Love the simple design of the compact book and think graphic designers and notebook lovers will appreciate this too. Unfortunately, I switched to decaf, since I’m too sensitive for caffeine. Now my decaf adventures...
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Frozen Fountain selection of sweets
Buying gifts is always a difficult adventure for me. Why? I always get distracted with nice items I’d like to have myself. Frozen Fountain in Amsterdam is one of my favorite stores. One of the relevant places to find beautiful and clever designed items in all price ranges. For small trifle gifts check out their candy table with delicious Dolfin Chocolate, beautiful wrapped old school candy...
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Golden Lollipop
Like to buy something gold for you loved ones for Christmas and are low on budget? Droog Design sells lollipops with 24K gold foil. Classy! This lollipop comes in a bizarre series of lolli’s tho’, yet thought it was very fascinating when I saw it for the first time. Black ants with peppermint, scorpions with vodka or worms in tequila flavored candy. All these protein rich bugs are...
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Melly's Cookie bar
Yesterday, I had a-tourist-in-her-own-city- moment with my sister. I live in the centre of Amsterdam and most of the time I avoid eating in the centre. Why? Because it’s poor quality of food targeted to the mass tourist without taste. But still, there are some good spots you need to visit. Just like Melly’s Cookie bar across the awful Magna Plaza behind the Nieuwe kerk, Damsquare.
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Kitchen Essentials pt.2
It has been a while that I wrote Kitchen Essentials pt.1. A blogpost about your must have kitchen essentials. I totally had no idea how to follow up in a short blogpost about knives or pans, since I knew less when I was reading more about it.
While working at home today, because I wasn’t feeling good, I catched up with some old school reading and found Super Normal, Sensations of the...