Strawberry time

May is one of the best month of the year. The elderflowers and the lilac are blossoming and when I pass these on my bike I smell the sweet scent. It is like a perfume that fills the air in a very light way.  It is also the month where you can buy these sweet strawberries, my absolute favorite fruit.

Picture: Lantliv

Impressions from Spring

Everything is blossoming and summer is finally about to come, these are a few pictures from my parents' garden that I would like to share with you. This is the only thing that I am missing in our apartment right now, to have a garden or even a balcony would be nice. Therefore it is always nice to come to my parents and be in their garden and help them with their gardening.

Spring time

One of the things I like the most in spring is coming back home and walking through our backyard with all the trees that blossom and they have this very sweet scent. No matter how hard the day was I feel relief when entering it. I'm really happy that I have this little secret oasis in the center of Munich right in front of my window:

Isabell

Bye bye Christmas

It's only been a few days ago that I have said bye bye to Christmas. It was very hard for me to stow away everything and to take away all decorations this year. I guess it's because the last 3 month have been so incredibly busy that I just wanted to keep the coziness of Christmas a little longer. But all is put back into boxes and back in the attic, waiting for next time.

And as always after Christmas I'm waiting for Spring to come, waiting for the light and the birds to return and the first crocus ...

Ramsons leaves soup

Another great thing about May and Spring is all the fantastic food you can get. As the ramsons season is very short and this soup is such a delicious and easy dish, hurry up and try it! :) I got these ramsons leaves from my parents' garden but you can get it in greengroceries, too.

This is all you need: 

2 small shallots, approx. 3 hands full of ramsons leaves, 150 gr creme fraiche or sour cream, 0.5 l stock

Start with the shallots, peel them and cut into cubes and sweat in a pan with a little bit of oil or butter, if you like your soup to be thicker add 1/2- 1 teaspoon of flour be careful not to burn it. Cut the ramsons leaves in small stripes and add to the pan, add the stock. if you have used the flour make sure to lift the pan away from the oven when filling in the stock, to avoid lumps in the soup. let cook for approx. 5 minutes. Add the creme fraiche and use a hand blender for the soup:

And the result: 

Hope you will like it as much as I do, but be sure not to have a meeting with a customer the same day because it really smells like garlic. :)

Kram,

Isabell

Lent lilies - Osterglocken

One of the signs for Spring and Easter for me are lent lilies. This flower is one of the first to come when the snow starts to thaw a little. You know that I try to have flowers all year-round and bought these, but I must admit this flower is only beautiful but doesn't smell very good. I think that's why it's not a typical flower you find in bouquets, because after some days it's really an awful and intense smell. These flowers are nice to look at- outside!

Kram,

Isabell

Amaryllis starts to blossom - time to stow Christmas into boxes

My Amaryllis have begun to blossom, even if it's a flower that you have during Christmas, for me it's another step towards spring. As we will be Snowboarding this weekend and I will visit my parents, I'll start to put away the ornaments from our Christmas tree already today.

Even if I love Christmas, I also look forward to have the clean lines and forms of our apartment back, to have everything cleaned and all the Christmas decoration stowed in boxes until next year. It's funny because I'm one of these persons that start to think about Christmas already in August... But enough is enough.

Kram,

Isabell