Happy New Year! And Happy The-Morning-After

Time just flies when you are having fun. Here we are again, ready for the New Year celebration and arrival of 2014, and it seems like just a few days ago we were wishing everyone a Happy 2013.

Our traditional New Year kransekage by the recipe of Claus Meyer baked and decorated, champagne chilled, fireworks bought, the outfit is ready, so now we have a bit of time to reflect over the past 12 months and be grateful for all the wonderful things, new opportunities and challenging experiences this year has brought us. 

Happy New Year to you all and a great, fun celebration tonight! And to ensure you meet the morning-after in your best shape, here're a few tips and recipes on how to deal with over-indulging on a new year night. HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

Baking Spree

There is no better time to over-indulge in all our favourite foods (and drinks) than Christmas. We went on a true baking spree this holiday season, starting with oatmeal-chocolate Christmas cookies, moving on to an insanely delicious, rich and decadent chocolate cake with a funny name of Kladdkaka (aka chokoladekage med fudge-frosting): we found this amazing recipe on our favourite Danish baking blog Cute Carbs. And once you had enough of all things chocolate, you may want to try our old times favourite, albeit in a new shape: this mouth-watering Ukrainian cheese-cake, aka Syrnyk, is a real treat (forever thank you Nata:)
Happy Holidays !

All I Want for Christmas

It seems just yesterday we were celebrating Easter, and voila, it's less than 4 days left till Christmas. This year it hasn't really been all traditional Christmassy, and were running a risk of doing any Christmas shopping at the airports duty-free. With so many days and nights spent away from home on business in the past few months, this Christmas is especially sweet and cozy, and we are so looking forward to family hygge: just staying in, enjoying our gorgeous little Christmas tree, unwrapping all the presents, over-indulging in Christmas food, sipping delicious cocktails, laughing, stopping to smell the roses, and just being grateful for this wonderful year. Merry Christmas !

Have a wonderful week

What is your definition of a perfect weekend? 
Here in Copenhagen, a few things that made just such a weekend, include the following - in no particular order: a rich, spicy, delicious Bloody Mary, first snow caught on Christmas decorated Stroeget, Game of Thrones marathon on HBO, home-made Apple Crumble with nougat ice-cream, a walk in a beautiful Frederiksberg Have (Gardens) and of course tonnes of sunshine this morning. Now, just one more episode of Thrones, and we are fully recharged and ready for the week ahead. Have a good one!

Staying in

Sometimes, if we are lucky, there are these jewels of a weekend: sleeping in, for many-many hours, uninterrupted, no plans, no trips, no pressure of waking up at 4am next day to fly on business somewhere… Just staying in. Enjoying the view from the terrace. Catching up on reading, with some really good books. TV-drama-marathon with the best new tv-series. Indulging in some home spa treatments. And of course eating lots of yummies, with fresh coffee and hot chocolate throughout the day. Bliss.
Have a wonderful, cozy weekend.

Living it up in Berlin

Planning a trip to Berlin soon? Here's a fun and elaborate definite guide to Living it Up in Berlin from Refinery29. Tell us of your favourite hot spots in cool and cozy Berlin!

Beware of burnout

Have you been working (too) hard lately? To prevent and proactively mitigate any signs of serious stress, check out this article in the Huffington post: 4 Red Flags That You're Headed for Burnout. Our own health is in our own hands, and it's important to watch out for the loved ones, too. Now if you see any of these signs in yourself or those close to you, you know what to do, asap.