Today I thought I would share a new recipe with you. I have to admit that this was not completely made from scratch (which I prefer 99.9% of the time), but I did add some more ingredients to make it a little bit more complicated and I was going to...
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I finally went to the Whole Foods market today. When we lived in LA, we had a Whole Foods down the street from where we lived and even though we did most of our shopping at Trader Joe’s and the local supermarket, there were a few things that we would...
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J and I don’t eat out very often. Besides the fact that we just love home-cooked dinners, eating out is way too expensive. I am aware that eating out in the US is much, much more common than in Europe (and therefore overall also cheaper). In the US, you go...
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I thought it would be fun to share some random food facts (inspired by an earlier post from Katelin last month). Some of these facts may not be news to you, because I have mentioned them some other place before. 1. I LOVE (real!) bread. I would easily skip any...
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Election Day Sunday morning, after we had cleaned up the party remains and had had breakfast, we took showers and got dressed to take a stroll downtown (there was “verkaufsoffener Sonntag” and City Fall Festival). We also stopped at the polling place to vote. I made it to Germany right on time for...
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Thursday morning was the first morning that I could sleep in a litte bit. I had set my alarm for 9 a.m. because my sister was going to come by around 10, but I slept through my alarm and was woken up when my sister came over. I got dressed,...
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Wednesday night my Mom made one of my favorite German dishes, which I always ‘request’ when I come home to visit: Reibekuchen (potato pancakes). We eat Reibekuchen the kölsche (colognian) way… with dark rye bread and sugar beet syrup and/or apple sauce. OMG, so freakin’ delicious! Later, my sister, my...
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J and I went out to dinner Friday night. There is a fairly new Sushi restaurant right across the street from where we live and instead of ordering out, we decided to go over there and have a night out. Sushi is one thing I have really come to love...
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