"Kulinarische Weinprobe" in Kiedrich

Last weekend we went to a so-called "culinary wine tasting" meaning you get really good food while tasting several wines of a winery. Two friends of ours were the "chefs" for the tasting and I think everyone agreed that they did a great job. I just forgot to take a photo of the main course. Here is the menu (in German and English):

Cremesuppe vom Riesling-Sauerkraut mit Nuss - Croutons
Riesling-Sauerkraut creme soup with nut croutons

Feldsalat mit warmen Ziegenkäsetalern
Field salad with warm goat cheese (marinated with honey!)

Zwiebel-Balsamico-Blutwurst im Wirsingmantel
Onion-balsamico-blood sausage in savoy cabbage

Filet vom Schwein auf Bratkartoffel-Rosenkohl-Bett
Pork filet on a potato-brussels sprout-bed

Dreierlei vom Pfannenkuchen mit süßem Kern
Three kinds of pancakes with sweet inside

The wines were really good as well! To find out more about the winery, check out their website:
http://www.weingut-speicher-schuth.de/

Kloster Eberbach - Dormitory

This is another view of the former dormitory of the monks at Kloster Eberbach. This room (amongst others at Kloster Eberbach) was part of the film-set of "The Name of the Rose" (book written by Umberto Eco) with Sean Connery.

The small door you see on the right is actually a "magic door" ;) - whenever Sean Connery stepped through it, he ended up in Italy where they filmed the library which supposedly was hidden behind the door.

Check out the other photo of the dormitory on my Rheingau Daily Photo blog.

Burmesian Building - view 2

Another view of the burmesian building in Oestrich-Winkel. For more information check our my Rheingau Daily Photo blog.

Kloster Eberbach - Cloister

This is the cloister at Kloster Eberbach, a former abbey in the Rheingau. I somehow always like the atmosphere of these buildings and especially the cloister. It has something very calming to me. Can't put my fingers down on what it is... maybe the absence of a lot of distracting things (noise, other people, etc.), maybe the garden that is in the middle of it (check out the photo of it here), maybe even the repetitive structure of the ceiling...

For more pictures from Kloster Eberbach visit my Rheingau Daily Photo Blog!

11th International Easter Egg Fair

Here are some more photos from the Easter Egg Fair in Kloster Eberbach:






The artists all worked with real eggs (no plastic or some other materials, unless they explained it somewhere). You can imagine how delicate some of the eggs were - especially the ones on the second photo where they used a dentist's drill to get those patterns or figures into the eggshell.

The woman on the third photo is working with different colored wax, heated on a little stove and applied with different sized needles. It was very interesting to see her doing it - she was very nice and allowed me to take a photo of her while she was doing her artwork.

At the fair was also a stand where you could also buy the raw (emptied but not processed any further) eggs from birds like quail (very small ones) to ostrich (quite large eggs) . It's been very interesting!

Related links:
More Easter Eggs from the fair (using a stitching technique)
Picture from the hall where the fair was held
Easter Eggs (Wikipedia)

High water in Rhine River

I've been already writing about it in my Rheingau Daily Photo Blog: the water in the Rhine went up since yesterday. There are several points where you can check the water level as the one in the photo (that is already in a flooded area). I just don't know what the measurement of this pole is (could it be feet??). Maybe you know...?

Anyways, it's usually not a big thing since it's quite a regular "spring happening". It just depends on how high the water will rise.

Luckily the house we live in is on a hill so we won't get the water in our basement. The problem is that the main road connecting all the villages of the Rheingau goes right along the Rhine river, so if the water climbs too high, the street might be flooded and all the traffic has to go through the wine yards which is usually quite chaotic. We'll see what happens...

Last picture for Carnival

This is one of my favorite pictures from the parade yesterday. I have so many, but unfortunately I cannot post all of them (as I alreday said, check my Rheingau and Wiesbaden blogs for more).

Carnival parade in Kiedrich

I went to the "Rosenmontags- umzug" (carnival parade) in Kiedrich today. It's one of the biggest in the Rheingau - up to 61 groups participated. I took lots of pictures which I will share with you tomorrow (check my Rheingau and Wiesbaden daily photo blogs). The picture on the right is a little preview.

The funny thing was that we had all kinds of weathers. Some sunshine in between but mostly overcast and then it started snowing - it was as if the sky wanted to participate in all that confetti and candy throwing...

Berliner or Kreppel

Carnival food! Well, to be honest, you can get those throughout the whole year nowadays but they are very typical for the carnival season: Kreppel, Berliner or Krapfen (they all mean the same; it only depends on the region). They are not that different from Donuts (as you can see with the two decorated donuts on the upper right), just without the hole in the middle. Some of them are filled with a teaspoon of jelly (mostly strawberry or apricot, depending on the bakery).