20: Recipe | Roasted Thanksgiving Chicken
When we celebrated Thanksgiving by ourselves in the last few years, we’ve never made a whole turkey. It’s simply too big for two people. We usually get a small whole chicken instead and stuff it...
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19: Family Vacation Recap – Lake Tahoe, Tahoe City and the Farmers Market
On Saturday (10/8), we took a spontaneous trip up to Lake Tahoe. We had been to South Lake Tahoe before, so we decided to pay North Lake Tahoe a visit this time. The weather was...
18: 5 Holiday Foods
Today I am linking up with Running on Happy and Fairytales and Fitness for Friday Five 2.0 Linkup. Ah, the holidays. Let’s talk about the holidays. This seems like such a good idea right now,...
17: Family Vacation Recap – Folsom, NBA, and a new couch
On Thursday (10/6), we had some time to kill in the morning and headed to the historic downtown area in Folsom. Can you imagine that I had never been there? It’s such a cute, historic...
16: Secret Santa Mug Swap
I polled on Twitter a couple of weeks ago if anybody was interested in a holiday mug swap and a few people responded, so I wanted to give this a go as a little act...
15: November Link Love
Sorry you guys, I don’t know how you’ve been dealing the last week, either turning away from TV and news completely or like me, inhaling article after article after article. I just need to stay...
14: Things you wouldn’t know: more German idioms
I’ve done posts like these in the last few years for NaBloPoMo, because learning idioms from other languages is fun and gives you insight on how language works. Let’s see if I can come up...
13: Recipe | (Rhineland) Potato Soup with Green Beans + Pancetta
We love our Rhineland potato soup and I honestly should make it more often. It might not look like much, but I promise you, it’s so good. Usually I would add “Mettwürstchen” (which is a kind of cured...