The Wall: As Fall Goes By

DIY: Coloured branches

If you want to be creative and bring some nature in your home this is something nice. While painting the branches or painting a pattern on it you can enjoy the concentration on doing just this one thing. I thought it was really relaxing and calming painting the branches.
So first you have to collect some branches or drift wood. Then you can paint them as you like. Drift wood is especially nice cause it has no treebark left. I took acrylic paint which vanished a little bit on the branches which I had on the balcony. Still it looks nice. These shown on the picture are decorating the bathroom.

Selfmade Hummus

This is a thing I wanted to try out for so long and it's really easy!
A friend of mine gave me this recipe.
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1 can chickpeas (just leave a little bit of the water)

3-4 spoonfull of tahini

1-2 garlic cloves

1-2 lemons

olive oil 

salt

Mix it all together and wait 2 hours. Then put in on bread or in a sandwich.

Plum Crumble Cake

Autumn time is harvest time. When I am at my fathers house I use to help him harvesting the plums from the trees in the garden. We put up a ladder to reach the ones we can't pick from the ground. Sometimes the leaves are wet from the rain and it's misty around the garden. The plums are quite sweet and tasty. He uses to make jam out of them. This year I am not home for harvesting plums by myself.
Still I wanted to bake a plumcake,

so here is the recipe:
Beat 1 egg, 80 g butter, 80 sugar and a little bot of vanilla sugar until the mixture is fluffy.
Add 200 g flour and half a teaspoon baking powder.
To make the dough softer add 4 spoons of milk and 2 spoons of rum.
Put the dough in a form and place the cutted plums without the pit on it.
For the crumble (streusel) mix cold butter, flour, sugar and cinnamon, the mixture will crumble by itself if you are lucky. Sprinkle the streusel over the cake and put it in the oven for about 40 minutes. I did in a gas stove, so I can't give any exact information about the heat. In general I use to improvise a lot when I cook or bake.

Blueberries

When I was at home during summer holidays we were hiking up the mountain around my village and found the perfect spot for blueberry picking. Unfortunately it was raining, and the blueberries were so small, so it would take hours to get a good  amount. So we were just eating them right away. I like these berries so much, although they are not linked to any childhood memory but to my love to scandinavia. But not even there I did pick a lot of them. It was last summer on my travels to Estonia, that we discovered a lot of them, much bigger than those you can find in Germany.
Well to disappoint you, the ones in the muffins are from the supermarket, but who cares when there is so much memories linked to them?