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…
Its a national holiday in the US – Memorial Day – and in my opinion time to be grateful for our standard of living and peace – more so than maybe on Thanksgiving. To be honest – I take it for granted to live in peace – and can’t even imagine, nor do I ever want…
Its Football Post Season and the Seahawks lost last week against the North Carolina Panthers :-(. Now I have lots of time again on Saturdays and Sunday to cook and bake. First I baked this ultra delicious and light Raspberry Biscuit Roulade. I am so glad I finally put this recipe on my blog because…
So you know how sometimes you have this vision of how you want to present your recipe on your blog and you think …oh next weekend I will have sufficient time to bake the cake, take really cool pictures and post them. Then the weekend comes around and chores that just piled up during the week…
The Bathroom is finally done – yeah! What a nice feeling to walk into a warm bathroom with heated floors! And I think Mike and I did a pretty good job in “designing” it a little bit more modern. I even got my own “sit down make up place”. See for yourself! Now that the bathroom…
You might have heard of Apple or other fruit strudels, but a zesty cabbage strudel? Yes its possible and absolutely delicious. You can actually put any vegetable into a strudel, just cook it with some onion, garlic, butter, seasoning, herbs, roll it up, bake and serve it as the veggie part of your dish or…
Elisenlebkuchen are traditional German Christmas cookies so you could say I am a dollar short and a day late with posting this recipe, but who is to say you can eat certain cookies only at certain times? Astrid and I baked these cookies a couple of weeks ago and they were so delicious and flavorful that…
Happy New Year! Hope you all had a great start into the New Year – mine/ours was outstanding. The most noteworthy I would say has to be the fireworks display the Sudore’s put on. The 4th of July display in Longbeach is already quite the spectacle but being right underneath your own fireworks that keep…
I am finally getting into Christmas mood. The Christmas tree is up and decorated and I got around to some Christmas Cookie baking – its not really Christmas time for me until I have baked a few German Christmas cookies. My favorite one being “Zimtsterne” (Cinnamon Stars). I was really lucky that my friend Astrid…
I know I am not being very “holidayish” these days…haven’t posted any X-mas cookie recipes or anything about Thanksgiving – to my excuse – I did very little cooking for Thanksgiving and Mike and I enjoyed a great meal and time with our friends the Sudore’s and their family – on top of the great food and…
A German in Seattle 