Week 4 : Berlin

A cold week, the birthday of my mother once again from far way, the surprise and tenderness of my mother who discovers the "deliveries for your birthday" from Amazon and reminds brutally of the late 90s E-card - a must of every 11 years old in 1997. Or of Corel Draw and it's all a whole nostalgia again. From the dinner point of view, nothing exciting, rather .

Berlin, Eberswalderstr. January 2015

Monday, 19 January 2015:  Nice creamy soup with parsil roots, leek and potatos.
Tuesday, 20 January 2015: Pasta (fusilli?) by the boyfriend with sour cream, champignons and speck.
Wednesday, 21 January 2015: a salad with only gren leaves.
Thursday, 22 January 2015: on this day I went for the first time since I leave in Berlin  to the Reichstag as part of an office team event. I was schocked by the size of the frightening German eagle and by the fact that most member of the Parliament do not have even proper seats with a reclinable table nor a microphone nor electronic vote system.
The inside of the chamber looks also surprisingly like a cheap building of the 90s with the pale beige round column and the moquette, the majesty of the Dome by Norman Foster doesn't improve the very German impression it made on me. The dinner, according to my notes, was a homey regular Spaghetti with fresh tomato sauce.
Friday, 23 January 2015: Pizza + leftovers (I have no memory of this Friday, I might have left the office at 8 pm)
Saturday, 24 January 2015: I had dinner with the family of a friend in a place I would not recommend to anybody Tucholsky. I had a regular kasseler but absolutely not worth it, justa pity that I didn't know and they were visiting.
Sunday, 25 January 2015: sweet bitter onions with pig filet cooked with milk, thymian and onions.

Week 3 : Berlin

The toughest week so far...busy, gray and demotivating all around. Even the cat decided to attack me on Saturday afternoon, he must have felt the stress no doubt. A pizza and delicious dinner invitations transformed the week.

Ask the boyfriend to save the day and the dinner with a pizza, he'll come home with one single pizza for two people.

Monday, 12 of January 2015: Risotto with leek and fresh salmon
Tuesday, 13 of January 2015: ravioli with goat cheese and spinach and ricotta woth simple tomato and onion sauce
Wednesday, 14 of January 2015: take a way quattrostagioni portrayed above
Thursday, 15 of January 2015: tagliatelle with black truffle home alone dinner (great)
Friday, 16 of January 2015: wonderful whisky tasting at friends with cheese selection to go along. Amazed by several ones (7in total)  a Glenlivet 18 and a Glengoyne  Port Cash Finish 1996-2010 stole my heart)
Saturday, 17 of January 2015:friends over for dinner -risotto allo zafferano by me, gulash by R. Great wines altogether. A good wine can save your dinner. Freixenet carta nevada semi seco to start with, mumm rosé to close, in between terra ventoux 2013 and other reds.
Sunday, 18 of January 2015: leftovers for the glory of Sunday.

Week 2 : Berlin

It was a nice way of starting again the new year at work. Slow, with the boss unexpectedly abroad and without snow.

It's not a lemon, it's cedar! 

Monday, 5 January 2015: glorious Christmas rests: la crescia di Urbino with Pecorino and lonzino  (please open the link and take a look at that blog!!it' esclusively dedicated to cured meats!)

Tuesday 6 January 2015 : grilled tofu with grilled parsnip, carrot.

Wednesday, 7 January 2015 : home made gigantic pizza topped with everything, my part with anchovies and olives. I used 40 gr of fresh yeast for around 350 gr of all-purpose flour and it became the fluffiest pizza I ever made.

Thursday, 8 January 2015 - green salad with oranges and cedar (s. pic)

Friday, 9 January 2015: gratin with potatoes, leek and spined loach (according to wiki) after Cavoletto

Saturday, 10 January 2015: dinner out YES! Tapas with R. And E. at the borser between Neukölln and Kreuzberg at Manuela

Sunday, 11 January 2015: grilled beef steak.

Week 1 : Berlin

Ptschhhh!! Ciao 2014

Monday, December 29, 2014: having had a belated glorious lunch at 15/16 at Peking Ente  we skipped dinner and went directly to the cinema to watch awful Interstellar.
Tuesday, December 30, 2014: Italian souvenirs Crescia di Urbino con salame e primo sale. Followed by Todo sobre mi madre.
Wednesday, December 31, 2014: Spring rolls , Cheese selection (pecorino from Tuscany, Sardinia, Marche, cow thing from French and Gorgonzola) with fruit mustards and the crunchiest of all wrong gone pizzas. Lenticchie and cotechino only for my joy and that of another guest. Salad with oranges, celery, fennel and pomegranate. Dessert vegan mousse au chocolat. Remaining wine after the cat made a bottle of Nero d'avola on the floor, Grillo, Riesling and the last Montepulciano d'Abruzzo. Bloody cat.
Thursday, January 1, 2015: leftover of the NYE dinner. Cheese and lentils. Eaten while watching Personal Belongings.
Friday, January 2, 2015: chicken breasts in a honey lemon marinade plus pistachios and wild fennel to remember Sicily + olive all'ascolana to remember LE MARCHE + a salad.
Saturday, January 3, 2015: a taboulé and a campari in a bar meeying friends
Sunday, January 4, 2015: tagliatelle al tartufo.

Long first week full of movies and food. Smooth start into this new year...

2015: here we go, again.

I started my first Dinner Project in 2011, following the dear Norwegian blogger Astrid. I did so because I knew it was going to be a rather complicated year in which I was going to move several times through several countries, I would travel a lot and be very stressed and I felt that commit to a regular report/routine would help me and that food would be the way of remaining present and awake.

Alps from above, going South thanks God.

Some would say aware. Too much of an avanguarde.

I managed to stick to my rule of reporting my food habits through the whole year and it turned very much into an intimate diary with notes and souvenirs about each week. I loved it, it was a tough year with a fil rouge of love and food.

And then I stopped blogging, moved to another country and got very confused. 

Things haven't get any clearer now and I hate new year's resolutions because I feel under pressure and I am afraid of disappointments but I thought that starting again from food would be the most natural thing of all. 

If there's something I discovered since 2011 is that I miss people. Friends, family, interstellar voices, transmedial entities. So I do not start alone this time, this will be a scrapbook journal of two friends living far away and sending each other love recipes.

Taking care of myself and the dearest around me and beside acting to my written words again, but together with a dear friend.