citybeach opening

fantastic citybeach evening last friday;-)
Snow flakes outside while having a cool prosecco at the pool between palms and sand inside;-)

I think Citybeach found the right winter spot this time, compared to Cityhall last year, Dreispitzhalle is much bigger and better organised ...

happy summer feelings until April 2010..

my granny's recipe - bragiole al sugo!

tonight I am going to make bragiole al sugo, a secret recipe from my granny giuseppina in Italy;-)

But since I'm a nice person, here you are the secret recipe you can try out yourself:
- buy 3-4 slice of beef meat, thinn slices
- put some olive oil, garlic in a pan
- put some thinn sliced garlic, cheese, parsley in the middle of the meat
- roll the slice of meat and stick both ends with a toothstick
in the meantime
- put some celery in the big pan with the bragiole (the meat you just sticked with the toothstick)
- put two types of different tomato sauce
- boil for 2 hours!!!!

And voilà, you can enjoy the bragiole al sugo;-)

Nerocafé - lounge and winebar

A new lounge and winebar is open since two weeks in Adelfia (Bari). Take a look at the latest recension!

So far I can only suggest a Dec Espressino at the bar since I went there this morning with my father for breakfast;-)

But I will try to taste their wines and food also sometime next week.

Happy holidays from Bella Italia;-)

all you need is love...

....especially on xmas day...!!!

Today after two years, my over 80 grandparents made peace wishing merry xmas to each other, my grandfather kissed my grandmother on her cheecks wishing her a merry christmas and both of them started to cry;-) ...all you need is LOVE to overcome barriers in families. Merry Christmas to everyone...

Xmas in Italy 2009

Xmas in South Italy is totally different than spending Xmas in Switzerland...it starts with the strong catholic traditions of decorating the house with a nativity scene instead of a xmas tree, preparing typical xmas coockies made of almonds and having a definetely warmer temperature than cold and snowy switzerland. Instead of a xmas dinner on 24th, people here have a big lunch on 24th and 25th...with the high risk that you gain 10 kilos by end of all festivities. Merry Xmas 2009;-)

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Weinmesse Basel

The Basler Weinmesse is always a MUST Event for everyone living here! I tasted different wines last night from south africa and Italy of course...but the winner was definetely

VINI D'AMATO once again, they have for me the best wines in town! I started from north Italy down to the south and the winners were:

the piemontese Dolcetto D'alba DOC 2008 for reasonable CHF 14.80 a bottle

the sicilian DonnaFugata Tancredi Contessa Entellina DOC, 2006 for CHF 32.50 a bottle

well what can I say, LIFE IS GOOD!

HBA Event - what is missing from your resume?

One of the most interesting presentation about how to enhance RESUMEs was held last night at Safran Zunft in Basel by the HBA Women Association.

The Lappin Company was founded in Boston as a general recruitment firm over twenty years ago. Bonnie Lappin is the company owner, if you get a chance to assist to one of her presentation sometime, I can only recommend it!

If everything is followed then by a nice pumpkin soup and a spätzli teller, even better;-)

Pumpkin soup - perfect autumn supper!

As soon as the colour of the leaves start to change into red, orange and gold, the autunm season is for sure here. 

Beautiful sunshine days and warm nature colours surround you with a feeling of cozyness and beauty. Every now and then you see farmers exposing the different shapes of pumpkins in different coloured patterns.

Perfect time for a delicious pumpkin soup with bread croutons. You can add potatoes if you want or just do it plain with lots of cream...hmm just wonderful.

Be careful of the calories though;-) 

Hotel Restaurant Krone, Weil am Rhein, Germany

For the cordon blue lovers like me, I can recommend this cozy and familiar restaurant in Weil am Rhein, Germany!

Hotel Restaurant Krone

Hauptstrasse 58

D-79576 Weil am Rhein

Much better value compared to switzerland;-)