We just returned from our yearly 4th of July Long Beach outing and that means summer has finally started in the Pacific Northwest. We didn’t waste any time and started off summer with a fresh Dungeness crab dinner caught by Mike and Sam and turned all the left over crab into scrumptious crab cakes. I…
Wow what happened – a blink of an eye – and now its 4 months later and lots of stuff to catch up on. Almost a yearly tradition we rung in the New Year with our friends the Sudore’s in Fishlake. We were lucky and had snow this year and Mike motivated us to build an…
And another Christmas in the bag – the 14th with my hubby – we counted it a couple of days ago on our drive to Burger King; this was a first for me, eating a Whopper on Christmas eve Where most other folks would stay away from fast food on a holiday and prepare something…
The day after Thanksgiving – ahhhh…since I don’t care for Black Friday, I finally have time to make myself a nice breakfast and write down a couple of recipes. It has been a busy month, mainly because I decided to go back to Microsoft – can’t live with – can’t live without :-). This is…
These days there is somewhat of a “doom and gloom” atmosphere here in Seattle, or should I say in all of the US? It seems like nature as well as human kind has gone on a rampage. As if its not enough that every day there are news about hurricanes, flooding’s and earthquakes, taking thousand…
Just when you thought I am done with posting a travel blog, I decided to surprise my parents and spontaneously flew to Germany for my dad’s birthday. Our “grandiose” planned surprise was detoured when I walked into the courtyard of my parents condo and my dad run into me….now what are the odds that this…
Wow – it took me 9 months to actually bring our Indochina trip to live on my blog – and today is the day of my final entry – yeah! This was a trip of epic proportions where everything just came together at the right time in the right place. Here in Seattle I run…
Day 16: September 29th: Sapa After a somewhat rough night on the Victoria night express to Sapa we meet Mao, our Hmong tour guide at the Sapa railway station. We arrive at 6:00 am in the morning after maybe a couple hours of sleep on a very bumpy train ride. I “usually” don’t think…OMG…
The dog days are here and it is finally summer in Seattle. I know for sure summer is here when my strawberries are ready to be harvested. This year I used most of my strawberries as is over vanilla ice cream, its just the best and my new obsession – Acai Bowls – where have…
Day 14: Tuesday September 27th – Halong Bay We wake up to a beautiful day in Halong Bay and start the day off with a private Tai Chi lesson. Mike and I have so much fun doing Tai Chi “for beginners” that we are motivated to look for Tai Chi lessons once we are…
Ah…do I need to say more…pasta, sausage and cream …AND it only takes one pot and 20 minutes from start to finish, but wait there is more, its not just another boring pasta recipe, you can load this dish with quite a few fresh vegetables (I only use onions and tomatoes but you could also…
Yesterday was mothers day and so I called my mum in Germany, chatted a little bit with her and told her I was making beesting cake (Bienenstich), a cake that is a little bit time consuming (as all yeast doughs are) and so she was sharing with me how in Germany lots of restaurants and…
