Give Me Bananas

 

Friends!

So I survived the day of doom and am so glad that I have 364 days of peace and quiet ahead. There’s no particular reason why I hate my birthday. I just do. Either there’s way too much attention so that I feel extremely uncomfortable or there’s too little (ok, that has never happened before..) which makes (or would make) me feel like no one really cares. I’m definitely NOT scared of getting older. Why do people freak out when they turn 30, 40 or 50?? Some people tell me that I “think like that” because “I’m still young” but I honestly think that age doesn’t matter. Take my grandmother for example; she’s over 70 and the most beautiful person (inside and out) I know! I embrace getting older (and wiser) .

But you know what? Yesterday wasn’t that bad though I didn’t do much. Ok let’s be honest: I didn’t do anything at all. After getting up I had a fabulous bowl of porridge, did some working out on the stepping machine (for 1,5 hours.. how did that happen?) then it was already 1pm. Sure, it wouldn’t be such a shocker if I would have gotten up at 10am but I was actually wide awake by 7am.

 

Lunch was perfect. Pure beauty.

Lettuce with balsamic vinegar, edamame, brown rice mochi, almond and sesame seed tofu.

 

Insert note about Florence: I will post a proper recap tomorrow. My camera died after two days and I will get my boyfriend’s camera’s pics tonight. Thanks for being patient

 

At 2pm I went into the city and bought some exciting things (like socks.. and carrots..) and met up with my mum. It was a gorgeous day but I had asked her if she wanted to come to our place to watch New Moon. You know, my mum loves the Twilight saga and the film doesn’t get released until April 18 over here. So when I saw the DVD in Florence I knew I had to buy it for mum. (I’m totally getting some brownie points )

My sis came home at 6:30pm or so and we dove right into some Chianti and a snack plate that she prepared.

I obviously ate all of the meat. JK

 

For dinner we went to one of my favourite restaurants in Bern..

Metzgerstübli literally means something like the butcher’s (small) living room. Definitely the perfect place for a vegetarian .

But all joking aside; besides the amazing flavour of their dishes I’m really impressed that they buy their veggies on the market right in front of the restaurant and also only use meat of small local farms and declare from where (aka from which butcher) they buy it. Sure, I am a supporter of animal rights but I also think it’s nice that some restaurants care for the origin of the meat and that the animal is treated well (even though it ends up being served on a plate).

The bread was served with an amazing sundried tomato pâté of sorts.

 

For starters I had a fresh salad.

 

and then I got a mind-blowing risotto. It was made with some Riesling sauce, sea grass and vanilla bourbon (!). They also added some flower petals.

There was a small hint of vanilla which was amazing. I will definitely re-create this menu at home.

 

My annoying lovely family talked about my birthday when the waitress brought the wine and after dinner she presented me with a passion fruit sorbet. How nice of her!

 

Tonight I’ll go and have dinner with Silvio. He was too busy yesterday which was a bummer but I’m really looking forward to tonight’s date.

 

Q: Do you dislike getting older? If yes: Why is it bothering you? I admit that (maybe) some wrinkles and, you know, the “boobs moving southwards” would bother me at first but I think that any age is beautiful. I want to get wrinkly because it would show that I’ve had my fair share of laughs and other funny facial movements .

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