At the very last minute I created the menu for the thank you dinner I held last Thursday for the two friends who sanded the floors of the apartment for me – the two of them and their partners that is. I was able to enlist the help of yet another friend who is a very good cook to make this something really special. I called it „D³“, which only makes sense in German: „Das Danke Dinner“ (the thank you dinner).
(Un?)Fortunately, my creativity didn’t reach a level that allowed for an adequate centerpiece as well so I had the flower shop around the corner take care of that and I have to say I absolutely love what they came up with. We then started out with a tea cocktail, followed by an avocado-papaya salad served with king prawns with a coriander-garlic stuffing. An absolutely fabulous cucumber-ginger sherbet constituted an intermediate course before we moved on to chicken à là créole. We then had a little room left to accomodate crêpes Suzette with walnut ice-cream and apricot brandy. Yummy!!

Tag: August 29, 2010
Birthday card
My new creative corner has yielded the first results! I admit that the monkey ended up looking more like he was participating in the javelin competition at the jungle games rather than brachiating from branch to branch but anyway – it was the perfect birthday card for my sister: my present was a „coupon“ for a day spent together at the zoo… hopefully being able to visit the recently constructed hippodome at Cologne’s Zoo. It’s supposed to be quite the experience…
There have been more results of my newly awakening creativity in paper crafts… Still no Christmas cards, though 😦 But now let me put together the entry on more output I’ve had recently! ~Barbara