You know what I seriously love about the summer? It’s all the yummy fruits that are available. In the summer, I could practically live off fruit. Even though California has a huge selection of fruit all year around, there are definitely “seasonal fruits” that are only available for a certain...
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I had the busiest weekend of my life. Ok, maybe not of my life, but definitely of this year :) I had something lined up EVERY single day. That is quite unusual. On Friday, I went to the German butcher shop to pick up some fresh pork belly for the...
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So, I went to the German Butcher Shop Friday morning to pick up some pork belly for the BBQ at Susi‘s and J’s. I was all excited when I got there, just to find out that they were out of pork belly that day. Goddammit. Who in the hell snatched up...
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On Tuesday, I went to another meeting of the German Meetup group. We had coffee at a Starbucks and best piece of information of the evening was: I was told about a German butcher shop where I can get “Bauchfleisch” (pork belly). Oh, if you could see me drooling right...
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Our Easter weekend was nice and peaceful. Since we don’t get Good Friday and Easter Monday off, like you lucky people in Germany, it didn’t really feel like a holiday weekend to me. I had thought about coloring some eggs, like I did two years ago, but then J and...
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J and I spontaneously decided to spend a night in San Francisco as a belated birthday celebration and we searched for a last-minute hotel deal on Saturday morning. Little did we know that we would hit the jackpot, because we found a ridiculous deal for a one-night stay at the world-famous Fairmont! My...
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As mentioned many, many times on this blog, say it with me, I am NOT really a coffee drinker. I just like a little coffee flavor in my milk :) However, I am very particular about that “little flavor”. You probably think that with all the milk in the coffee, I won’t...
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