Christmas In Wuppertal

Here are some pictures of our traditional Christmas lunch on December,25th at my sister's home.

As every year, she decorated the Christmas tree in a very aesthetic way. Also the table was a vision of delight.

As a starter, we had a salad with shrimps and avocado cream.

As the main course we had "Tafelspitz". That is a traditional Austrian meal with a thinly sliced lean boiled piece of beef from the shoulder . This is served with chive-sauce and "Apfelkren". "Apfelkren" is made of apple puree and horseradish. As a side dish we had spinach leaves and dumplings. Doesn't make this picture your mouth water?

For dessert, we had Mousse au chocolat. Hmmm, yummy yummy....!!

After lunch, we had a little rest and after that, it was time for exchanging gifts. But as we are a musical family, the children played some christmas songs for us before.

Also "Uncle Markus" had the chance to play some tunes on his old piano, which I bequeathed to my nephew, because my new appartment is too small for it. Sniff...

But I took comfort in a wonderful piece of chocolate layer cake.

So finally all went well this Christmas day and I left my old piano with a tear in my eye but very well-fed.