Travelog for: Drescher

Today I finally arrived at my new host's place. I had been very happy to see them all and to get out of my package. My host says thank you for the postcard and stickers.






We decided to listen to the White Christmas Album while we baked a Hannchen Jensen cake, which you can see on the left page. We baked it with peaches, because we don't like cherries in it.






While we took care for the Hannchen Jensen cake, Petra baked some cookies. You see, it isn't that easy to hold Mi-Go back from eating everything. He just threw us around when he jumped up to catch some of the finished warm cookies.

Today we baked a braided yeast bun, because Petra's one son had a belated birthday party. It tasted really fine - and once more we had to take care for Mi-Go to not eat it all before any other person had a chance to get a slice of it.

Today we wanted to create some tea-light holder. We needed four pieces of hard transparency foil and napkins with small ornaments on them and some glue for napkins and white colour.

At first I had to rip out some ornaments of my napkin.






Then I had to glue it on the foil.




After it was dry again, I stamped some white colour around the ornament.




Some even used golden colour.




Petra helped us to staple them together.

Today we helped Petra to bake two large apple cakes, because tomorrow is the last day of her son's alternative service.
We prepared the dough and cut apples into pieces, added cinnamon, raisins and sliced almonds to the apples and cooked them. Then we made a part of the dough in the plate and filled it with the warm apples and covered it with dough again. I would so love to make this internet able to give you a hint of the smell in the kitchen, yummy.

While we all worked really hard, one of us sat around and only listened to music of the cd-played. Of course one whose name is Priscilla can only listen to music of Elvis, especially when it is Christmas time and it is a Christmas album.






The first of us, who discovered the new cd was Henry the Adventure Hound.








We needed a lot of flour for the cake.

This weekend there is a special event in Bruchsal. There is a second Christmas market for three days around the palace. The weather wasn't that great - no snow, but it was cold enough and the place was full of people.

At first we listend to the trombone choir playing Christmas songs. We also took a look into all the tents, but it was too crowded to take photos there.






We left the Christmas market and took a photo of the front of the palace by night before we drove home again.

While our host was teaching at school, it started to snow. We asked her to go out with us, but she said, that the snow is rather wet and that it isn't nice outside. Nevertheless she took some photos with me to show the roofs covered with some snow.




Here you see the two towers of the church St. Peter.

Petra has time to do some more baking. At first we all sat down at our place, where Petra wanted us to sit.




We took the book and searched for some nice recipes. You can see, which recipes we picked out for baking today.










We also baked some other sorts of cookies.

Today is a very special day. We all were allowed to help packing the presents for Christmas.




Later we helped to cook chicken fricassee in the clay pot and some corn salad and of course we helped to eat everything




Later we ate some of our selfmade cookies.

Merry Christmas to you!




In the morning we watched a movie, which Petra got as present yesterday evening: Elvis: That's the way it is.
I must say, that he was a really cute guy and I also like some of his songs.




Our sheep waited in the stable with the sheep.




Then we all went to the crib with the newborn Jesus.

Today we helped to cook again. We had lamb, dumplings, vegetables (carrots, onions, oranges and dates) with red pepper pearls. It tasted very very fine, although it was a diet recipe - without the dumplings.




Then everyone went away and we were alone at home. We prepared everything for dinner: raclette. Look at this amount of black olives.

Today we went to Petra's parents in law to celebrate Christmas with them and her husbands' sisters families. We saw some nice angels and another beautiful Christmas tree.

The weather was a bit better, so we decided to go on a short walk over the graveyard, which is close to where I live right now. There is a beautiful baroque church next to the graveyard. It's called St. Peter.




We also visited to Jewish graveyard.




Next to the newapostolic church on the left we had a good view over a part of Bruchsal. The big house on the right is the backside of Sancta Maria.




Next to Sancta Maria we had another good view over the city. I hope, that I will come closer to those towers to see exactly, what these buildings look like. Petra told me, that from left to right you can see the tower of the city church Our holy lady, church St. Damian and Hugo, which belongs to the palace and the old tower of the ancient castle.




Here is the front of Sancta Maria. It is a school for soon to be kindergardeners and also home for some Franciscan nuns.

It's the last day of 2011 and we start to bake a new year pretzel. At first we had to take flour, some warm milk and fresh barm. We prepared a yeast sponge. Later we added honey and melted butter and salt.

Happy New Year

We celebrated with friends and had a lot of fun. At midnight we watched the fireworks.



I'm sorry, it was really difficult to take a nice photo. This one isn't really a nice one.

Mandy Sheep read a lot about Baden-Württemberg, because she joins in the Big German Round Robin. After hours of searching for information about the state we're living with our host right now, she got bored of reading so much, so she decided to listen to a nice song on youtube. Maybe you will watch it to. It is "Crawfish" from Elvis Presley's movie "King Creole".






She called us to join her.