Saturday, April 18, 2009

Easter in Baden-Baden

In Germany, in the kindergarten „Le petit prince“, the Easter bunny comes every year to bring a little nest to the children. This year we celebrated Easter a little differently. The children built a large nest out of sticks in the forest. Some days later, they hiked to the nest that they had made and actually found some Easter eggs, little rabbits and chicks, all made of chocolate, as well as other goodies.
Happily loaded with their treasures, they returned to the kindergarten, where Nikolaj’s father had prepared a huge buffet with hard-boiled eggs, tomatoes, cucumbers, bread and other delicacies. This is how we celebrated Easter this year.
Heidi Quéré

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Friendship

Potato Soup - Germany


Ingredients:



400g potatoes, diced

½ celery, diced

2 carrots, diced

1 parsley root or parsnip, diced

100g leek, sliced in rings

1 large onion, finely sliced

40g butter oil

1½ liter meat broth

1-2 tomatoes, skinned

salt, pepper, nutmeg, marjoram or savory

½ bay leaf

100g crème fraîche (lightly sour cream) or cream

parsley and chives, finely sliced


Lightly braise (sauté) the potatoes, soup vegetables and onions in the butter oil.

Pour in the broth and add the tomatoes, as well as the spices and fine herbs.

Let it cook for about 20 minutes.

Remove the bay leaf.

The soup can be either strained or pureed.

Stir in the crème fraîche (lightly sour cream) or cream.

Sprinkle with parsley and chives.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Happy Easter


Friday, April 3, 2009

Presentation of vegetables from each country

from France :
from Portugal :
from Estonie :
from Bulgaria :
from Germany :