Time flies when you have fun but time really does not fly when you are doing a kitchen remodel! It took us a good 6 weeks to be back to normal but now I can finally enjoy my gourmet kitchen and don’t have to worry about remodeling for a while. My next recipe hopefully will…
I can’t tell you how exited I am about my upcoming vacation! I think I already mentioned it in one of my prior posts and finally we are close to the countdown, 11 more days and Mike and I are taking off for a trip of a lifetime. Its our 10th year wedding anniversary and we…
No stories from the “field” today, live is busy with work, garden stuff and just hanging with friends and the occasional dinner that is cooked from scratch like this awesome Chicken Pasta Bake. Its one of those dishes I like to start making on a Friday night when its not hectic and can make a…
Life is busy but uneventful these days – get up, go to work, work, come home, feed the animals, cook, eat, crash on the couch, go to bed and start over. Mike and I are crazy busy at work, my company has its last quarter of the fiscal year and the already busy schedule gets…
And here we go again, I don’t think it was the first power outage we had this year, but they always sting a little bit more in winter, when its cold, rainy and dark and you can’t just sit outside, drink beer, BBQ, enjoy the night and then go to bed. No instead we are huddled…
Since I work a few days from home I have a challenge around lunch time – what is for lunch? Not having a cafeteria close by I often find myself eating the worst stuff for lunch…meaning whatever I can find laying around like a chocolate bar or bag of chips. So I have started to use…
So I am reading the beginning of David Lebowitz’s book “The sweet life in Paris” and he is reflecting on the Moment he became “Parisian”. Listing a couple of Parisian life episodes where every American would have rolled their eyes or be in awe about the situation (like a bank not having change or running into your Dr.’s…
I love chicken wings, especially Mike’s chicken wings, they are the perfect mix of juicy, spicy and crisp – very tasty! You know the “Franks Hot Sauce” Commercial with the old lady saying: “I put this sh*** on everything? Try it on chicken wings, its the best! Just season the wings with salt, pepper and garlic salt,…
When preparing for the Easter Raclette I run across an interesting chicken skewer recipe that not only makes for a good Raclette dish but also for a really good BBQ dish. Not that it is already summer in Seattle, we are far away from that but I am already freaking out about the same old same…
Look who I met in Vegas – Rocky and PeeWee photo bombed us. That’s Vegas! Its nice to be back home – One week of Vegas took a toll on me. No matter how hard I tried, there just was no way to get to bed prior to midnight, not even on a business trip, or maybe just…
A German in Seattle 