the first meal of 2016: the watermelon cake

I spent New Year’s Eve with Natalia and Alice, cooking food, drinking sparkling wine and baking a watermelon cake. That meant we spent the entire evening in aprons, constantly eating, laughing and building a mountain of dishes in the sink. This is the third year in a row that I spend New Year’s Eve with Natalia.Continue reading “the first meal of 2016: the watermelon cake”

reminders from the past (April 2015)

While in Saint Petersburg, Mr. P made friends with a family of babushka’s. It feels like such a remote thing in time, something that happened in another stage of life, our visit to Saint Petersburg – but I found this picture among the edited-but-not-uploaded photos and it was such a pretty one. They really match,Continue reading “reminders from the past (April 2015)”