Making mirabelle plum wine

We went down to the orchard today and harvested about 22 pounds (10 kilos) of mirabelle plums from our trees. We really should have harvested them a week or so earlier, but we simply haven’t had the time. Thank God we found Nico, our new farm hand, when we did...

Where’s my chimichanga?

Since I grew up in Texas, I’m a big fan of TexMex food. But finding good TexMex or Mexican food around Frankfurt is next to impossible. We went to a “Mexican” restaurant several years ago and ordered fajitas. What came out was a few strips of beef,...
Cannabis Ice Cream You Can Make Now

Cannabis Ice Cream You Can Make Now

The sizzling summer makes the mercury rise. Beat the heat with a nice serving of cannabis ice cream, your choice of THC psychoactive or CBD. The dessert’s potency is up to you – stick with 3 grams of weed for a light hit. This may be the dream of stoners all over, but...

A very special Valentine’s Day feast ;-)

Stefan has been talking for some time (read about 5 years) about how much he loves Eggplant Parmesan. He’d looked for a recipe a few times (especially last year when we had our own eggplants in the garden) but apparently always came up with nothing because he...
Why Start a Website?

Why Start a Website?

With Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and many other forms of social media taking over the world lately, you might wonder if the humble website has had its day. Well, we don’t think so! Websites are still hugely important for many kinds of people and deserve to be seen....