Alof Café Munich

One of the many advantages of living in a city like Munich is that there are so many restaurants and cafés which you can try and you could spend years and would still not be able to try every single one.

This weekend I will go to a café I haven't been before: Alof Café in Hans-Sachs Street. I've heard that this place is very cozy and everything is homemade. I look forward to going there and will be back with a feedback soon. :)

Picture: yelp

Danish Design Homes

Danish Design and Scandinavian Design in general is very clean but also very nice. I like the white base with the geometric forms and the grey and brown and the pastel colors. These are two typical pictures, this is how the apartments of my Danish friends look like, I could ask them to take pictures and send them to interior magazines :)

Picture: bolig magasin

Picture: bolig magasin

Thoughts about Time

When I was a child time seemed to be so much longer. I still remember the feeling during the long summer holidays, how long a single day could be at that time. Playing outside and no need to care about anything.

I sometimes wish a had the same time feeling now that I had back then. A soon as you start to work time just flies and certainly not because you're having fun. When I arrive at work within the blink of an eye it's time for lunch and the next time I look at the clock it's time to leave. The days seem to pass away so fast and the circle of getting up and it is still dark outside and coming home and it is dark again, with almost no time spent outside is something that sometimes gives me a nostalgic feeling. I would love to have more time for myself and for my family. I wish it was a summer holiday and I was in Sweden right now...

VILA Clothes

When I was in Stockholm in december, I found a new brand: VILA. They have modern and very stylish items. Even though it is certainly too cold outside for this dress at the moment, I couldn't resist. Maybe it's the longing for summer, maybe it's just that I need something new that reminds me of summer in my wardrobe. I look forward to the postman bringing it :)

picture: Vila

picture: Vila

Chocolate cake in a jar

It is snowing outside and I'm in a mood for chocolate today. Rich and dark chocolate cake… yummie. I have a really good and easy recipe which I've used today and would like to share with you.

You need:

3 jars ( preserving jars) 1/4 l volume each

100 g dark chocolate ( 70 % chocolate)

3 tsp of cream

100 g butter

3 eggs

100 g sugar

1 sachet of vanilla sugar ( or 1/2 tsp of vanilla essence)

a pinch of salt
200 g ground hazelnuts

1 tsp of butter

2 tsp of cacao powder


Preheat the oven to 160 °C or 320 °F. Butter the jars and add the cacao powder so that the entire jar is buttered and has a cacao layer.

Separate the eggs and beat the eggwhites until stiff. Heat the cream in a pot at low heat, break the chocolate into pieces and add to the cream together with the butter which you cut into small pieces before adding it. Melt everything in the pot until while whisking. Whisk it until everything is of a single consistency. Let cool down a little bit.

In a bowl, whisk together the egg yolk the sugar, vanilla sugar and salt until it’s all mixed up evenly. Add the ground hazelnuts and fold in the stiff eggwhites. Divide the batter evenly among the 3 jars, filling each about 1/3 full.

Put the jars on a baking sheet and slide into the oven. Bake for 30-40 minutes, until a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean.

Serve warm with a little scoop of vanilla ice cream. :)

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 ...