With all these cold rainy days piling up one after another, its obvious that winter is coming. Sooner rather than later. This makes me – 1). really really sad that I have no more Game of Thrones to watch at the moment and 2). remember how much I love casseroles, savory pies and roast dinners. …
Somehow I’ve found myself back in the freezing cold of America’s Midwest. Originally I came to join my husband on his business trip, but that all went a bit wrong and now I find myself here for two weeks without him. This is less than ideal, but sometimes you can plan all you want but …
I love chestnuts. I love the weirdly creamy but crumbly texture that makes you want to keep eating and eating. I love when it starts getting cold here in Germany and you can find the little food carts selling freshly roasted chestnuts. I love sitting by the fire at Christmas peeling open freshly roasted chestnuts. …
With such mild weather here in this part of the world, I’m fully embracing autumn. All the orange colored vegetables are out in the supermarkets and the apples are everywhere to be seen. You know it’s autumn here when the tasty Federweisser (fresh pressed white grapes that have started fermentation) can be found just about …
When this time of year comes around all I see is millions of pumpkin recipes. Pies, loaves, cupcakes, oatmeal, stews, just about anything you can squeeze a little taste of pumpkin into. I get super excited because its autumn and it’s all very festive. But after awhile it sometimes just feels too much. Blasphemous, I …
One of my favorite English christmas traditions that has stuck with my family over the years has to be these Mince Pies. Nothing tastes like Christmas like a bite of one of these. Once made, they never last very long around the house as I consider them a perfect replacement for breakfast, a mid-afternoon snack, …
My mother is a visiting nurse. She spends her days visiting patients in their homes and her evenings filling out piles and piles of paperwork for each of these patients. On some days she might see up to 10 patients, each with their own different ailment and most importantly their own story. My mother, being …
One of the cuisines that I miss the most while away traveling is most definitely mexican. I miss it even more because it’s rather rare to find a half decent mexican restaurant or even the ingredients on this side of the world. When I’m back in the states, I usually pack quite a few ingredients that I …
Last week my sister and I had the opportunity to enjoy a girls night in watching movies and eating junk food. The husband was out on a work do leaving us alone to our own devices. Since we have lived in opposite sides of the world for the last 10 years this was a rare …
All summer I’ve been dreaming of a huge vegetable garden with loads of varieties of tomatoes. It’s a dream and not reality yet because of two things: one- we live in an apartment with minimal sunlight on our balcony which is not so great for growing veggies (but surprisingly great for weeds!) and two- I’m …