It’s the last day of the year and I am sure all of us can’t wait for this year to be over. Thankfully the Covid vaccine will be available for all of us soon and life can go back to normal and I can finally fly to Germany to see my parents. Since the last…
Bye Bye 2018 – Another Christmas is wrapped up and the countdown to 2019 starts in a little bit over 24 hours…I am ready for a New Year, I like New Beginnings and another chance of broadening my horizon to new opportunities. Do you take inventory of the past 12 months at this time of…
My friend Astrid gave me a bread baking class for my birthday – I couldn’t have gotten a better birthday present! I am trying to master the art of bread baking now for a good 6 months or so and still haven’t found the perfect recipe for a Sourdough Bread. I am pretty close to…
Today is a very special day for kids in Germany – it was always my most favorite day after Christmas – Today is Nikolaus! Saint Nicholas was a historic 4th-century Christian saint. Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession he is also known as Nikolaos the Wonderworker; he had a reputation for secret gift-giving,…
Oh the smell of bread – makes me so happy! That must be German because my friends are not really crazy about bread where I could eat an entire loaf a day. The smell of bread is comfort to me, it also reminds me of my young(er) adult time in Germany when I was working in a bakery…
I love bread, almost as much as I love chocolate. I don’t know why I haven’t baked bread sooner, but now that I am somewhat serious about actually cooking/baking all the recipes I have collected over my entire lifetime, I wanted to give the bread baking a try, especially since I wanted to make my…
A German in Seattle 