My Sunday morning calls with my mum back in Germany are always a highlight of the week and at the same time also make me wonder, which American media produced horror story was picked up by the European media this time, that my mum is eager to discuss with me. So I brace myself for…
I had never heard of a Monte Cristo Sandwich maybe until 5-6 years ago when Mike took me to a little hole in the wall in Georgetown in Seattle called Smarty Pants. Once I tasted the ham and cheese sandwich on egg dipped fried bread with powdered sugar and jam on the side, I was…
This was a great weekend, sleeping in, hubby making omelet breakfast, no chores to run, finishing up my book (Gone Girl – I was so upset about the ending for a couple of days, fortunately now I am over it and started a new book – An Anonymous Girl), spending time with the dogs, picking…
Its August now and we are still living in the surreal world of Covid, its kind of like an alternate universe, something you’ve seen in a sci-fi movie and can’t believe its really happening to you. For months now I work from home and fate had it that I had to drive into the office…
Mike and I spent another 4th of July in Long Beach, escaping the Covid craziness and just enjoying ourselves at the beach with the dogs. We even skipped collecting wood on the beach and didn’t make the usual big beach fire and instead watched the fireworks in our cozy cabin, taking life easy, which was…
Covid 19, People quarantined for over 3 months now,, summer vacation plans cancelled, Riots across the world, “Anarchy” in Capitol Hill (or not..depending on who you ask) historically unprecedented unemployment, toxic media coverage of everything and anything that is currently going on in the world and in all this mayhem, NASA launches the first private…
The last two weeks of my quarantine have been filled with delicious food since I am cooking every day and I have also been incredibly caffeinated, thanks to this newly discovered coffee inspired by South Korean candy of the same name. One of my colleagues at work shared a photo of this coffee with me…
So what do you do when you can’t go anywhere? I cook and bake, if you are more ambitioned you might be cleaning out your closets or the king of ambition – you tackle a remodel. I can’t put my mind to anything meaningful but baking and just so that I feel somewhat accomplished I…
I’ve seen it happening in the movies but never thought I would find myself in the middle of a full blown worldwide pandemic – COVID 19 outbreak – a new virus from China – with Washington being one of the top epicenters in the United States. Now if you belong to the lucky ones,…
A pot of hot rice pudding is simmering on the stove, I am tucked away on the couch with a blanket, the dogs are on my lab and we are waiting for the Seahawks – Packers game to start and the forecasted artic storm to hit. Perfect conditions to catch up on my blog. FY19…
Wow what a week it has been – new frontiers for sure have been conquered. Mike had his first ever (Meniscus) surgery and everybody who ever had surgery knows how stressful the process of getting ready for surgery can be. Personally I hate nothing more than getting into that ugly gown and blue stretchy surgery…
Wow where should I start, it has been 5 months since my last blog entry and as you can imagine a lot has happened. I think I should get the sad news out first, I had to say good bye to my beloved dog Sky and unfortunately I couldn’t even be with her during her…
Snowmaggedon – yeah right – the weather people for years now forecast a big snowstorm at one point of time in winter here in Seattle and Mike and I are getting all excited and what happens – nothing, if we are lucky a super light dusting, far different than a snowstorm, well not this time,…
Maybe a little bit late to the party but why not extend the holiday memories with some holiday food? To me this is the ultimate Holiday dessert, the house smells like Christmas when you poach the pears with cinnamon, anise, orange and allspice. This is a super versatile dessert, you can slice the pears and…
Good Bye fun Christmas time!! Since I just posted an extensive blog about the last 3 months nothing exciting to report – it was more a “sobering” week than exciting. The Seahawks lost against the Dallas Cowboys – unnecessary in my humble opinion; we “de-holidized” the house and took all the lights down, put the…
