Meal plan: Revisiting some favorites

    I finally got back into making meal plans again. I went all out this time and did 3 weeks at once. I haven’t stuck to it too well so far but at least our freezer is FULL of food and when I do feel like being a good homemaker, I have a variety of things to choose...

    Goodbye dear old friend

    It’s sperrmüll time again here and that means there are piles of junk on every street corner in our town, along with tons of white panel vans with Polish license plates cruising around. The vans started appearing on Saturday morning already, waiting with...

    Making wine without all the extras

    We had the privilege and pleasure of being invited to visit friends in Karlsruhe on Saturday during a family wine making day. We weren’t really sure what we were getting ourselves into but when we arrived, we found out it was us along with 3 generations of one...

    Vegetable soup with options

    Prepare yourself for a long recipe here…but this is first a basic Hearty Vegetable soup that we canned and then a few variations which you can use when you open up a can of this goodness to eat it. This way you can eat the same soup over and over again without...

    Yep, we’re gonna be needing one of those…

    We decided to do some canning this weekend. Well, I made the decision and Stefan thankfully helped out along the way. During the process, one thing became extremely clear – we need an outdoor kitchen. We’ve been trying to decide what to do with the little...