Recipe: Hollandaise Sauce

Ingredients:

• 250g butter, melted
• 3 egg yolks
• Seasoning
• 40ml water
• 1 squeeze of lemon juice.

Instructions:

1. Whisk all the ingredients, except for the butter, in a bain marie.

2. Continue to whisk, gradually adding the butter. Whisk briskly until thickened.

Tip: This sauce can quickly go too far. Mine did and it looked like melted butter again. Luckily the hubby was on hand to save it with an ice cube and extra egg yolk.

Make it Monday - November Birthday Cards

This month I managed to mix it up a bit. The most exciting one for me was the one you see on the right. The other two use techniques I've used before while this one is for an older man. I found the creativty to mix old stock and new, and I like the results.

Weekly Wisdom

The body needs movement, the mind needs stillness.

The Saturday Update

It's been a really busy week, starting with our breakfast with friends on Sunday and going to the kids' theatre after. It was a nice trip out.

In the evening Dad arrived with my nephew and we had a fun few days with swimming on Monday, a day trip to Bremen on Tuesday and a day playing at home on rainy Wednesday.

Isabella had a busy week at Kindergarten despite her day off with photos, swimming and gym.

I've missed my sports but cycled almost every day and focused on studying around the usual daily grind.

Next week is also busy with a family birthday, lantern festival and the clothes party but hopefully less stressed once today is over!

Links!

Yum!

Advice with hindsight.

New (to me) mummy blog.

I've put most of these on Isabella's wish list.

Beautiful motherhood photos.

Cool idea.

Intriguing.

Love these too.

October Goals Review

It has not been a great month on the goal front. October has gone so fast, I can hardly believe it's November next week. Here's how I did:

• Speak as much German as possible before my C1 exam! - kind of, could have done more...
• Send two postcards. - done!
• Try two new recipes. - done!
• Get back on the health kick after the holidays. - nope.
• Learn to play backgammon. - nope.

Reading Review

The Hard Way - Lee Childs

Another one from the 200+ freebies, I took this one on holiday with me for a quick read and it certainly was that. It was enjoyable and interesting but I didn't enjoy it as much as some of his other works as I had the twist figured out much too early. Either I'm reading too many of these books or I'm getting clever!

Veni, Vidi, Vici - Peter Jones

I started reading this on holiday. From the non-fiction section, it explains everything you wanted to know about the Romans and then some!

At first I found it very interesting, especially the linguistic tidbits but towards the end, it was very dry and hard work to read.

Jackdaws - Ken Follett

This was a fantastic read. I love Ken Follett's novels but I've never read his earlier works before.

Jackdaws follows the female protaganist Flick, and her mission behind enemy lines towards the end of World War Two. There was no cross over with his other works and it was a real page turner. Cannot recommend it enough.