Prinzessinnen Garten

Oma came over to stay with us for a couple of days. She has an amazing kitchen garden back in Holland, so I wanted to go and visit the Prinzessinnen Garten with her today.

6.000 square meter hidden behind a round-a-bout in Kreuzberg. Boxes and crates full of herbs and vegetables. Of course not really the right time, vegetable wise, but it all looks great anyway. Oma explained the girls about Jerusalem artichoke, we bought seeds for her garden. We had coffee, lemonade and carrot cake in the shadow of the foliage.

It is a beautifully warm and sunny day for the time of year and this is one of the best spots to be on a day like this. It feels fresh in their shadow, the atmosphere is extremely relaxed. People around us drinking coffee or beetroot juice. Ordering a plate of the daily special or opening the lunch box they brought themselves. What also strikes me is the diversity in people that sit here. It’s not just the organics one might expect, there also are tourist, business people, groups of friends catching up, hipsters and three generation families. That’s us

Chocolate Cake

We baked a chocolate cake today. As healthy as possible. Actually it is a beet and chocolate cake. Me, I don’t like chocolate that much. Honestly. Sometimes a little bit, then flush it away with loads of tea. I do like beets tough, I love them and could eat them every single day.

The girls do love chocolate, so this cake is the perfect combination. What I like most is the bite the raw beets give to the cake. We left it a little too long in the oven, so it went a bit dry, but solved this by eating it with some unsweetened whipped cream. You can find the recipe right HERE

Yam Yam

Sometimes during a Sunday walk the girls fall asleep in their stroller and when they do we quickly walk to a nearby terrace. Today I’m happy to be in the neighborhood of Yam Yam, a small Korean restaurant I’ve been wanting to go to for a while now to try their Bibimbap. It indeed is a very comforting dish.

The girls woke up before the food was on the table, but that was more than ok. We ordered them some fried Mandu (dumplings), so they were happy as  well. The noodles were a bit too spicy for me, but if you do like spicy this also is the place to go. We had a wonderful lunch. Hopefully next time they’ll fall asleep around the corner of Yam Yam again

Walrus

What a beautiful end of the summer day. We walk up to daddy’s office, through the Mauerpark. Cooling a bit with the two water spitting walruses

Veggies

It's all about the veg again. We added tasting and smelling to the ritual, besides poking and pinching

Sparrow

There’s two species that dominate Berlins summers. Sparrows and Wasps. It’s been many times this summer we had to change places or leave a terrace, because circled by these small striped insects. I do get nervous when the wasps around the kids. And those Berlin sparrows, those guys really are as cheeky as can be. You can’t turn your back on anything eatable.

Today they were totally lurking us at Kiezkind. Just chilling out with some sausage sandwiches and mango lassies. They almost got hold of Lou’s lunch. Nothing that can make her more mad than trying to steal her food, especially when sausages. She completely told them off, those sparrows