Cooking with friends: German X-mas cookies

Christmas time is here!
And even if this year I don´t want December to come along, I can´t deny it, I love Christmas!

X-mas decoration and lights have already invaded the city. And if you can´t resist to this fact, well, join it!

With Isa´s mother´s recipes for Christmas cookies we decided to drop out the Grinch spirit and bake!
(I can´t give right now the recipes, because they´re in German, once translated, if you wanted them, you should ask me).

Original German Chrismas cookies

Orange cookies, glazed and with candied orange peel on top. And Butter cookies with colored icing.

I gave them as a present to my mother yesterday, and we´ve already eaten them all.

Goluptious!!!

Malasaña revisited

Great ideas are what makes this world go round, even if they are little great ideas.

So that´s it!, last Saturday we went out around Malasaña. Visited some great bars, some more famous, some more bizarre.

Started out in a little unknown bar called Pablu´s (Luchana st, 12, Madrid), a very dark place, with great Spanish music from the 80-90´s and very interesting people to meet. I had some really great moments there, and I really recommend it.
Moving into the party zone, Tupperware (Corredera alta de San Pablo, 26) is a bar/pub with, what a believe it´s a great kitsch decoration: old TVs with action figures and toys from the 50-60´s inside, Naranjito figures, a roof full of big eyes that keep staring at you, murals of superheros and Ziggy Stardust and a wall where they project some old movies (last Saturday was The Rocky horror picture house). And then the music!, great indie rock-pop and some classics. Sometimes it gets a little crowded for me, but it´s a wonderful place to dance if you get enough space for that.
Just by the Tupperware, El Penta, what a bar!, I mean, I love that place, it´s dark and they play great music (mainly Spanish hits). In its walls Antonio Vega´s lyrics and pictures. It brings back good memories for me. And even if you have to queue for a while in order to get in, it´s worth it. I like it when they are closing and they always play "La chica de ayer" by Antonio Vega.

To end the night out, Moby Dick Club (Av de Brasil, 5). I can´t be objective about it. I love it. I usually go there about twice a month, it´s like home to me. The music, the DJs, the barmans and I don´t now, just the people that goes there.It´s wonderful. And I´ve always had great moments there. Besides that, I live really near, which makes it almost perfect!
(NOTE: the MobyDick club is not in Malasaña)

What a night!
Well, that was the great idea!
What do you think?

Long blogging holidays...!, (Baby I´m back!)

 Hi everyone!, and especial hi to Belen (from Lines in the sand) which is almost the only loyal reader I´ve got.

Well, since the summer, days have been a little hard. I´ve prepared my pre-doctoral Thesis about Hematopoietic progenitors transplan in patients with primary immunodeficiency, and that let me with no time for anything else, not even blogging!
Happily everything went well, and here I am back again.

Last weekend, I did something I had never thought I would do: filming a short movie, with LOMOKINO, the new analogue movie camera from Lomography (www.lomography.com). And I must say, it´s an  incredible different experience, and more difficult than you think. It was a Lomography workshop. Previously we had to write a speechless scripts and vote the ones we liked the most, and then acted them down and filmed with Lomokino. The final result I´ll show it to you when it´s ready. We had fun, and in my group the script was about a girl who is reading a book and in its pages she finds out a picture of her ex boyfriend, suddenly the picture gets blown by the wind, and she starts following it overcoming obstacles (you know I´m not telling you the end of the story, especially when the movie is called: An unexpected end). The movie is being developed, but until it´s ready you can watch some videos at www.lomokino.com. Hope you enjoy them!

 

Photo and video from: www.lomography.com and www.Youtube.com

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