Crunchy Christmasy oatmeal cookies

As I am now completely into baking cookies (having to make 10 bags of homemade cookies 2 weeks ago for sale by the kindergarten at our bank), I experimented with another type of oatmeal cookies that turned Christmasy. It's more crunchy than than my previous recipe!

Ingredients: chunky and broken down oats 70g each, regular flour 60g, sugar 30g (can be doubled), pinch of salt, vegetable oil 4 Table spoon, water or milk 4 Table spoon, cardamum 20g (can also add ginger and cinnamon), white chocolate 30g, handful of dry cranberries, handful of walnuts.

Instruction: Mix the dry ingredients and add oil and water with a wooden spoon. Add the cardamum, white chocolate, dry cranberries, and walnuts and mix further. On a baking sheet, place the balls of dough and press down with hand to flatten out. Bake in 180 degrees for 20 minutes.

Albrecht Dürer was from Nuremberg

While the museum cautioned there were very few paintings remaining by him in Nuremberg, it was still very nice to see the major pieces he painted here at his house, including his own portrait. The intricacy of his brush work reminded me of the Girl with Pearl Earrings a bit, maybe influenced by the shelf and imagining how these artists all created the colors themselves (like in the Vermeer novel).

My first ever real Christmas tree

While apparently it is most traditional to put up Christmas trees at home on Christmas Eve here in Germany, we went ahead and put up the Christmas tree more than a week ago as we will be in Sweden over Christmas. It is the first time for me to buy a real tree and decorate it all by ourselves, so it feels extra special in addition to the lovely ornaments we picked from stall to stall in Nuremberg.

Nuremberg Christmas market

Nuremberg was honestly a very exciting Christmas shopping place indeed, albeit the minus 5-degree weather! The stores are filled with German made candies and decorations (hopefully all or most of what we got!), which are hanging very nicely from our Christmas tree right now. I especially loved the cookie decoration which apparently you cannot eat, and will last for 3 to 4 years.

Okinawa beach life

Upside down dolphin