Zita and Ivan are having a baby!!! Hurrah little Adam is almost here – he will be a Taurus child, strong and hearty. **Flash update: Adorable Adam arrived April 30th with 3850 grams and 56 cms – now that is strong and hearty!!!** He will love the great outdoors and later enjoy a small garden ...
So far the weather this year has been fickle. Snow, melt, snow melt, 1 day cold, 1 day warm… even the birds’ chirping has been tentative as if they are unsure if they didn’t return north too soon. Local produce here in Germany remains decisively wintery except for the wonderful citrus produce from Spain and ...
I have been in need of comfort lately. Much more than usual, the events in Connecticut and the ensuing discussions throughout the US have shaken me to the bones. I long for comfort food, family dinners in pretty decorated dining rooms, some chatter with my husband and child and a sense of normality in such ...
Since I first saw them in Italian cookbooks, on blogs, TV cooking specials and in the raw in Italian markets I have wanted to make stuffed Zucchini blossoms. By I have never been able to get them here in Frankfurt at the markets and have feared bringing them back from my travels in my suitcase ...
I feel a particular affinity to Julia Child. I believe it has grown out of several roots: being French and American, having learned all about French Food at my Grandmaman’s knee both in my childhood summers and twice living with her outside of Paris for a year in the 1960’s, loving to cook and discover ...
Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don; And through the blue heavens above us, The very clouds move on. Heinrich Heine, Book of Song Yes May has cometh! It brings flowers, blossoms, greenery, green grass, green leaves and green asparagus. Asparagus, a delicate, low calorie and beneficial spring vegetable, a perennial of the ...
It’s new, new, new! New home, new kitchen, new pots! The move went like a whirlwind – 6 weeks from the initial apartment visit to actually living in our new place. It was exhasting, in parts frustrating, definitely expensive as moving can be. But the best part is: I LOVE THE NEW APARTMENT! I love ...
Fall is upon us bringing along that special appetite for hearty dishes. Such as cauliflower and other cabbage dishes. We are not generally fond of flatulent vegetables but we need to eat more veg and less meat and the cauliflowers looked so beautiful at the market that we took one home. Now how to prepare ...
Being on a family diet is a real challenge for this passionate foodie especially during BBQ season! But then it’s also a good opportunity to indulge in more vegetables, cut out the brats and the heavenly but heavy full-grain German bread to opt for yeast-less Turkish flour tortillas, very similar to Mexican ones. They’re great ...
Ahhhh Spring is upon us here in Germany – so why sauerkraut you say?? Because the nights are still chilly although the days are sunny and our bodies are tired from the changing of seasons and want something comforting in their tummy to weather the change… pun intended. And of course sauerkraut is so easy ...