Recipe suggestion for a whole year by Catharina Elisabeth Goethe (1731-1808), mother of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
"Take twelve months, cleanse them of bitterness, avarice, pedantry and fear, and divide each month into 30 or 31 parts, so that the supply lasts exactly for a year.
Each day is prepared separately from one part work and two parts cheerfulness and humor.
Add three heaped tablespoons of optimism, a teaspoon of tolerance, a grain of irony and a pinch of tact.
Then pour a generous amount of love over the mixture.
Decorate the finished dish with bouquets of nice tokens and serve it daily with cheerfulness and a good refreshing cup of tea."
We hope you enjoy preparing and enjoying it.
Istanbul and Nelly wish you a happy New Year's Eve and good luck in the New Year.
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Dear Istanbul
Thank you very much for this great recipe for 2013 and the kind wishes that came with it. We from the Migipedia team also wish you and Nelly only the very best for 2013, but above all good health!
I'm already looking forward to more posts from you next year :-)
All the best!
Best regards
Tanja, Migipedia team
@Istanbul: I would like to echo Tanja's words and also THANK YOU very much for these inspiring lines at the end of the year as well as for your invaluable contributions here on Migipedia, your often very concrete help, explanations, links...USW.
WHAT, WHERE and HOW would Migipedia be without your tireless commitment [!??] From which - and not least I find this very beautiful and valuable - it often emerges that you probably not only know quite a few of the "recipes" or suggestions for such quoted above, but also know about the ingredients, have them available, cook, prepare, garnish and serve them - with attention and dedication.
I wish you AND your wife lots of wonderful things in the new year that will soon be upon us; small and large events that make you happy, do you good and allow you both to enjoy the coming months as Mrs. C.E. Goethe described. with a warm greeting and MANY THANKS for everything!
@Tanja: I would also like to take this opportunity to say a big THANK YOU to you AND the WHOLE Migipedia team and to send you our best wishes for 2013. That on Migipedia - as well as in other areas - a lot of good things will come your way, give you courage and strength and that as little of the dark side as possible can continue...best wishes and MERCI for everything!
A simple, albeit elaborate recipe with guaranteed success that I will take to heart! Happy 2013!
@trixvi: gell-:)...
inexperienced cooks/"cooking muffins" [here], may stand in the kitchen a little longer or several times until a reasonably digestible mass is made, but with constant practice...
happy 2013 to you too!