Thinking of you

Weather is still cold and we have frosty mornings here… so we keep enjoying our visits to the old Viennese Cafés… this time we visited Café Central again – because of the piano music – and look what we had: delicious hot chocolate with Amaretto liqueur and chocolate cake (me) and coffee with wipped cream and a very delicious “round chocolaty thing” (hubby) – it tasted wonderful and it was embellished with small pieces of gold! Our afternoon there was like a full day of vacation!

(Don´t ask for the amount of calories…)

Today I´d like to share with you a card with a digi by Mo Manning – I love this drawing!

I colored it with watercolors:

 
 
While I was doing mine, my aunt did the same card with colors I like a lot more!
 
I only chose the deep red of my card because of the person I wanted to give the card to. But I like the light blue a lot more!

Here´s her card:

 
 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a nice week!

Challenges:
http://www.alyssundaychallenge.blogspot.com/
http://www.cardcupids.org/blog/
http://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/

2011

A few years ago I had severe problems with my skin – the doctor said, I should minimize stress – so that´s what I do !  :-)

So I thought it´s a good idea to begin 2011 as I ended 2010: with a nice afternoon at a Viennese Café.

My hubby and I visited Café Museum… here´s what we had:

Sweet-chestnut-cake and hot chocolate with Cointreau and whipped cream – topped with fresh incredibly good smelling orange zest:

Hubby had raspberry-mousse-cake with his favourite “Einspänner”…

…. and then Café Sobiesky, which is Mokka with Wodka and honey

So I had a quite stress-free afternoon ;-) we stayed there for nearly 3 hours and enjoyed the treats, talking and reading newspapers and magazines...

Enjoy your Sunday!

OK, I  don´t want to leave you with that now... here´s what I can offer you:

MY FAVOURITE RECIPE FOR APPLE CAKE... it is quick, easy and incredibly delicious smelling while baking - I love, when the whole house smells like a vanilla blossom!

* Cover a baking sheet or baking tin with puff pastry (ready from the supermarket).

* Peel some apples, cut them in slices and cover the dough.

* Beat 2 egg-whites

* Mix 2 yolks with 100g sugar and 10g vanilla suger until light and creamy, then add 500g sour cream (or 250g sour cream and 250g curd/quark) and 1 pack of pudding powder (size:usually enough for 0,5litre milk)

* Fold in the beaten egg-whites and pour this on the apples - smooth down

* Bake that for approx. 30min. at 175°Celsius (depends on your oven!) and enjoy the spreading scent of vanilla!

ENJOY WHILE STILL A LITTLE BIT WARM !!

New Episode…

....… of our Viennese Café Tour.


This time we visited Café Prückel in the Inner City, but it´s not our favourite. They do not separate the smokers from the non-smokers properly… nevertheless we enjoyed the afternoon…

 They have a nice ceiling there ;-)
 

Have a nice Wednesday!

Vintage...

It is still cold outside....

... so my hubby and I continue enhancing the "sunny side" of life...

We visited "Café Bräunerhof".
It is near the Habsburg city palace. Every Saturday there is live music at the café with a small orchestra of 3 playing waltzes and classical music. The furniture is from the 1920´s.
Bräunerhof has probably the largest selection of newspapers of all cafés in Vienna. According to its owner in 1996, the café spent 1600 dollars monthly on newspapers.(Wikipedia)

We had a cozy afternoon there ...

..... "Einspänner" coffee and plum cake and 
(curd) cheese strudel

... my all-time favourite : hot chocolate

And now to my project... something "vintagy" (is that a word?)

I link it up to  http://papersundaes.blogspot.com/2010/12/paper-sundaes-challenge-47-gift-it.html

Thanks for stopping by! Have a nice day!

Improving wintry afternoons...

My hubby and I made the decision to cheer up those cold, wintry months with visits to the famous old Viennese cafés… most of them are existing now for more than 100yrs. – and it´s a special atmosphere there….

Last Saturday we visited the Café Central in the Inner City of Vienna – it´s a very beautiful café with piano music…it has been opened in 1868 … we had a really nice and cozy afternoon …. ignoring the cold and windy weather outside, reading magazines and enjoying coffee and hot chocolate for 4 hours!!

Want to have a look? You´ll find pictures from 100 yrs. ago and from today…
http://www.viennatouristguide.at/Altstadt/Kaffeehaus/Central/cc.htm

Here are some of my pics:

... the piano man

... Empress Elisabeth

... a quite nice selection

... Mango-tartlet and a "Pharisäer" (=coffee with a slug of Rum and whipped cream)

... sweet chestnut roulade and a hot chocolate with Amaretto ... very delicious!

... a "Einspänner" (coffee with whipped cream not in a cup, but a glass-mug. In former times coachmen preferred this type of coffe, because it stayed longer hot and they could hold it in one hand while they had the reins in the other)

Inspired by those former times I created a SNB (sticky-notes-booklet) which could be from the estate of an elegant lady anno 1890/1900…

Thanks for enduring such a long blog post ;-)

Have a nice day!