Pretzels

I am afraid I have a new obsession. Freshly baked pretzels.. Oh my goodness! And.. for those following my detox and juicing journey.. what a way to break it..

I have to admit that for this baking session, we bought frozen dough which is specially for pretzels. Our next challenge is to make it from scratch.. perhaps next week?

The kids had fun rolling out the sausages and making the special shape a pretzel comes in. Morgan says he read that they are that shape to symbolise the Pope crossing his arms. This is in fact true, but not true; as there are a number of claims for the origin of the shape of the pretzel.

It is generally believed that the pretzel that the first pretzel was made in 610 by monks. Some believe it was a reaction toward the pagan breads eaten at festivals and other support that it was a bread made with out eggs or milk and could be consumed during lent. Others suggest that a monk invested it to give to children as a reward for learning their prayers. 

No matter what the origin is, this is a delicious treat, and I am embarrassed to say - we ate the lot - straight out of the oven.. mmmmmm

Juicing, raw foods and taking stock

Its been a bit quiet on my blog, I realise.  No doubt you know that we are in Germany for 7 weeks looking after a sweet little cat called Cleo.

We've been to this part of Germany before and have 'done 'alot of the touristy stuff with an hour and a halfs drive. 

We have all been a bit exhausted both mentally and physically so its been a real blessing to have somewhere to just sit still and take stock. 

I'd originally planned this time as a space to write , but with the intense one one one sessions I'm doing with Morgan and Lilly on Literacy and maths, I'm too exhausted mentally to be creative.  Its important for the kids to be confident with key skills and concepts for next years entry back into mainstream school. They will just about have been out of mainstream for two years, so it will be a shock for both of them to have to sit at desks, talk to other kids and good grief ( Lilly) follow instructions with chucking a huge tantrum or arguing for an hour.

Germany possibly isn't the ideal place to be vegetarian, nor trying to avoid grains. However, for the first week we were here, we did a 100% juicing program. The kids continues with one per day and I continued 100% for a second week.

I've now introduced raw foods treats like my choc mousse and carrot and orange chilled soup. ( see below) the variety of things to juice is limited and my key ingredients are expensive ( I like to use three or four avocados a day and at up to 2 euros each - thats nearly 4 Aussie dollars- i've had to scale back) things like coconut cream is super expensive and cocoa butter, macca and other items Id always use impossible to find. 

We have three and a bit weeks left, so Ive decided to focus on the kids key skills and tidy up my writing files. I'll attempt to edit some long forgotten articles to submit and try to get a system started for my writing again. 

There is so much I 'm still not ready or able to tackle or look at.

Polish Lesson 9 - months of the year

styczeń - January

luty - February

marzec - March

kwiecień - April

maj - May

czerwiec - June

lipiec - July

sierpień - August

wrzesień - September

październik - October

listopad - November

grudzień - December