At office parties the guys from our IT department mix cocktails. Their Long Island Iced Tea is terrific and their Strawberry Daiquiri is outstanding. It's a crazy world.

Happy Food Year to you too, CP. Debauchery with alcohol means, that I drank a glass of wine or a digestiv every day over the festive season (for about 2 weeks). Usually we drink one bottle of wine on weekends - that's no rock'n roll lifestyle. I arrive at home from work at 5.30-6 pm. But I turn into the Hulk when I'm hungry. To protect my environment, I eat my dinner at lunchtime Today we visited a Turkish restaurant. Stuffed eggplant (Imam Bayildi) with rice and salad. 2 tangerines made the dessert. I like smoked fish too. I think, I like all kinds of fish dishes

A very Happy New Year to everyone. Wow, Passion Fruit Souffle, that sounds fantastic, CP. Yesterday's boiled beef made a terrific soup today, upgraded with noodles and semolina dumplings. After 4 weeks of total food debauchery (sweets, meat, alcohol) I'm looking forward to my daily diet. (Alcohol on weekends only, almost no sweets, no eating after 4 pm on weekdays) Next festive season: Carnival

That's cool. Hope you had fun.

Our traditional New Year's Eve dinner: Prime boiled beef fillet (Tafelspitz) with horseradish sauce and a special chives sauce, roasted potatoes, green beans, corn salat The Secco (a sparkling wine) is my favourite sparkling wine/champagne/prosecco/whatever. We order it directly from the winemaker.

Haven't heard this for ages - a time machine to my 14/15 year old me ...

The few times I drank these famous wines and champagnes I was disappointed. The Chateau Neuf-du-Pape tasted like a Chateau du Clochard. Really awful. Maybe the "cheap" versions of these very very expensive high-end wines are crap? Trout, a fish, yes. It tasts delicious.

Thanks, CP. The Grand Cru was quite nice but not outstanding. I got a red wine from Côtes du Luberon as a christmas present and I'm looking forward to this bottle. I love the French wines. Today's menu: Char or trout (don't know what's the accurate translation) stuffed with fresh parsley and dill - it was fantastic Horseradish sauce, compound butter, potatoes and corn salat And the wonderful Grüne Veltliner white wine from South Tyrol Next stop: New Year's Eve dinner

Roasted duck with red cabbage and potato dumplings Château Puy-Blanquet, Grand Cru Saint-Émilion A.C., 2007 Marzipan, poppy seed cake A Slivovitz as digestif And now we're watching The Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers

I like all kinds of Lebkuchen

Der Kommissar was sooooooo cool when it came out It's a pity Falco took too much stuff, I liked his music.

No it isn't but it's very nice

Soft rime, so beautiful and fragil

Rolling Stones, Supertramp (I know that there's no love for Supertramp. But I don't care. I love their music very very much), Style Council, Jam, Specials, Beatles, Queen (70s only), Who, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Massive Attack and so on. I like classical and world music too.

The dark things are chocolate cherry cookies. An Amarena cherry surrounded by a perfectly soft and fluffy chocolate pastry. And I suppose that eating is a better way to consume them then smoking. But a nice Kirsch could be good company

Delicious christmas cookies - homemade by my mother-in-law

Happy birthday, Kiwi. Have a great day.