dani - silli - tommy dinner: final judgement

based on a "esh glühweinstandl" meeting in last years december, dani, silli and me had a nice conversation about our cuisine, ending up in a variation of the famous "das perfekte promi-dinner" series on tv: "das dani - silli - tommy dinner".
making appointments not that easy, it took exactly a year to have all three of us cook for the others, including their partners of course. it was great fun and at least for me quite a challange to create a menu being worth of taking part in that competition.
U now might wanna know what i did:
cold italian antipasti as a starter
lamb-ginger-ravioli on brown butter
red-wine-roast with malfati
tiramisu

jsut wanna mention the personal highlights of the competitiors creations: silli made the best soup i ever had in my life: rieslingschaumsoup and dani's duck with the serviettenködel was the highlight of her dinner.

to sum it up: on the 13th of december we had the final judgement combined with a "mike-dinner", the master of all cooks. i dont wanna go in any details, it was just what we expected: the best of all - thats why he was not part of the competition ;) at least i had possibility to assist the master during preperation:



and in the end mike announced the results:
the winner is: silli, followed by myself and dani as a superb third place.

for 2009 the next competition is in preperation.

lebkuchenhaus (gingerbread house)

on the last weekend my wife eva and i have been very diligent and creative. we constructed a gingerbreadhouse. not just a simple one, we made some detailled plannes prior to cutting the elements and glueing them all together with evas patented heavy duty sugar glue ;)

check out the results in the following pics.

for all us windows user out there

the matrix runs on windows ;)

and by the way: today there will be a nice "welcome carneval" party in the it department. we already purchased some beer, wine and a lot of cakes, cookies and stuff to eat are expected to "attend".
so letz see what we can do...

surfin' around

hi ppl! today i am just surfing around in the web and i - do u have another chance? - also stopped by youtube.
when searching for the top austrian comedy movies "muttertag" and "indien" i occasionally found some very nice clips dealing with traffic.

so here we go:
why the hell do we need roundabouts if it could be so easy?
this one definitely is amazing

and i found one of my favorite cabaret scenes performed by lukas resetarits long time ago
feel free to post ur own favorites as comments to this entry

one night in eva hotel's t(h)ommy room

a bit later than thought we made it to cash our "1 night in the eva hotel - double room t(h)ommy" voucher we got from angie at our wedding to be used for our first aniversary. as we have been in france on that day, we postboned it a bit.
and as we know now, with a lot of advantages: the landscape looks great with the starting autumn and all the leaves getting colored yellow and red, and the weather was just gorgeous: blue sky and temperatures of 15C and more.
we were really getting hot on hiking up the alps and me getting a "nice" sunburn on the forehead and my nose ;)

and as usual i made a google map with all the important places and routes of this trip, which u can visit here.

besides of walking quite a lot (for our measurements ;)) we relaxed in the wellness area of the hotel and eva and me had a nice massage. a very nice dinner made the stay at the eva hotel quite a nice experience.

so, we both, eva and i, have to really really thank angie for this voucher!

the next day, after our second hiking experience, where we nearly passed the border between salzburg and tirol - if i would have know before we definitely would have proceeded the last mile - we visited zell am see for a small walk at the lake, watching some psychotic birds and having a nice cake and cafe.

so another great, relaxing weekend with eva reached its end.
i really have to look forward saving more time for that kind of adventures, its amazingly realxing and re-energizing to have no it equipment in reach.