I had breakfast this morning with the Brambrings. Sabine made the best orange jelly in the entire world! I absolutely had to get the recipe, so voila!
Orange Jelly
2:1 Pressed Orange Juice (without pulp) to Jelly Sugar
1 cut vanilla bean (scrape insides out into the jelly, cook the entire bean, but remove the shell before serving)
2t lemon juice
cook on low heat for 3-4 minutes, stirring the entire time
remove
add 1 shot orange liqueur
put immediately into glasses and flip upside-down for 5 or so minutes.
After breakfast we met up with everyone who had slept in the hotel at Josef Albers Museum. Apparently he's a German artist that the American's adopted. (I honestly have no clue why.) He does not paint just squares-it's a mind trick! He paints a square within a border within a border, and there is a whole mathematical equation behind it. Ziad and I discovered that exact equation! So, you have to look at the paintings from 10,25 cm away, and then you discover that (y4x2 + 2xy – y)/(x – 1) = axn + bxn − 1 Of course, it's much easier to reach this conclusion with Beethoven easy-listening music playing in the background. The funny thing is that the Germans actually took the entire visit seriously and sincerely enjoyed the exhibit.
Orange Jelly
2:1 Pressed Orange Juice (without pulp) to Jelly Sugar
1 cut vanilla bean (scrape insides out into the jelly, cook the entire bean, but remove the shell before serving)
2t lemon juice
cook on low heat for 3-4 minutes, stirring the entire time
remove
add 1 shot orange liqueur
put immediately into glasses and flip upside-down for 5 or so minutes.
After breakfast we met up with everyone who had slept in the hotel at Josef Albers Museum. Apparently he's a German artist that the American's adopted. (I honestly have no clue why.) He does not paint just squares-it's a mind trick! He paints a square within a border within a border, and there is a whole mathematical equation behind it. Ziad and I discovered that exact equation! So, you have to look at the paintings from 10,25 cm away, and then you discover that (y4x2 + 2xy – y)/(x – 1) = axn + bxn − 1 Of course, it's much easier to reach this conclusion with Beethoven easy-listening music playing in the background. The funny thing is that the Germans actually took the entire visit seriously and sincerely enjoyed the exhibit.
Thankfully, the second half of the exhibit were dinosaurs!
We had lunch at the German Rotary President's home. He presented our President with a Josef Albers painting (I wonder if he'll actually hang it in his home), and Jean-Michel gave him a bottle of nice wine.
I really like Germany. The people are nice, the weather is about the same as in the Nord-Pas-De-Calais, the homes are nice, the towns are clean, it's in Europe, and it reminds me a lot of the US. I only wish I could speak the language.
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