Because fresh berries are available all year.

 

So easy but so special.

Why not serve Bavarian Cream next time. 

For Dessert, Bavarian Cream with Raspberries and whipped cream laced with 23 carat gold, 

Danziger Goldwasser Liqueur.

Recipe for Bavarian Cream

Mix 1 cup sugar with 1 quart raspberries. Let stand for 30 minutes

Soak 2 tsp gelatin in 3 TB of water, dissolve in 3 TB boiling water, stir this into berries

when cooled fold in 2 cups whipping cream laced with Liqueur.

Pour into mold or individual serving glasses. Chill for at least 6 hours. Serve with fresh blueberries and/or additional raspberries.

Speaking of Goldwasser Liqueur, those are 23 karat gold flakes floating at the bottom of the bottle. 

Goldwasser is now produced in Berlin, Germany. 

It was first produced in 1598 in the German town of Danzig, my Father's birthplace. 

Who knows, could Goldwasser be the cure all. 

It contains more than thirty herbs and spices. 

King Louis the XIV and Catherine the Great favored it.  

The recipe is a secret.  There is only one person who knows it.

The owner of the recipe is a German by the name of 

Graf Carl von Hardenberg. 

Have a wonderful week dear friends. 

Gina

Have you been to Kientzheim?

What about Ora, Italy?

 Kientzheim, where the streets are lined with half-timbered houses and Storks build their nests on top of chimneys.

When traveling by car in Europe, you sometimes end up in the most unexpected places.  Kientzheim, south of Strasbourg, in the Haut-Rhin region of the Alsace, is such a place.

Something happened with our rental car. 

It  needed to be hoisted onto a flatbed and taken in for repairs. 

The Hostellerie Schwendi, in Kientzmeim, was recommended for an overnight stay.  It turned out to be a fine Hotel with an award winning Restaurant. 
http://schwendi.pagesperso-orange.fr/


This was not the only incident with our rental car.  (I'll save that for another time)

Now on to Ora, Italy

Ora (Italian)  Auer (German)

See those stripes on the wooden shutters.  I used to know their meaning.  I think that red and white striped shutters designate a Hotel.  Green and white or blue and white  stripes mean something else.  Very convenient when you're out in the country side. Maybe my readers know the real scoop.

Ora, Italy with an incredible restaurant with an impossible name,

Tschurtsch.

Ora is a tiny village in the northern Italian region of the Trento Adige, not far from Bolzano.  Often, we travel to Europe in September and October.  We rent a car and set out with no particular plans except we usually make a round trip from Paris to Umbria, Italy,  and back to Paris. 

That is how we found Ora.  Our  modus operandi is always to start looking for a place by about 3 or 4 in the afternoon.  We head for a very small village and locate the village church tower.  That is where you find the best lodgings.  Lodgings which have provided a good meal and bed for many travelers through the centuries.

Strolling through Ora we came upon this intriguing looking Restaurant. 

Would you have gone inside?

If you had, you would have been served one of the finest meals in all of Europe.  

http://www.tschurtsch.it/de/essen.htm

Have a look at their very unusual Menu.

Have a great week my dear Blogging Friends!

Gina

Addendum Please note: Ownership of Tschurtsch Restaurant has changed.  For now, I can not recommend it. January 5, 2014. 
1/4/2018 Not recommended.

 

Tickets are purchased

Reserved our favorite seats to Paris,

at the bulkhead, on the right

Then heading straight to Germany, Austria and then over the Alps to my beloved Italy

Beauty along the way

Every opportunity taken for more flowers

There will be a castle or two to stay in

A Palladian Villa to visit near Vicenza

Young people meeting after Church in northern Italy

Colorful Inns just across the Alps serving breakfasts to last all day

A town square or two, the fellow flailing his arms is Gene enjoying Vicenza

More opportunities for flowers

It's so tempting

Gina