Spargel season is slowly beginning here in Germany, which generally goes hand-in-hand with strawberry season. At the moment, a lot of what is available is still from France (especially the strawberries) but the first devilishly expensive German strawberries are also hitting the markets and it will be no time at all before there are Spargel […]

What do you know…two weeks in a row again! 😉 The theme for You Capture this week is “spring” — and who would want to pass that up. Hopefully some wonderfully creative people have also taken the assignment literally and will be sharing pictures of springs — the idea actually just came to be while […]

Several years ago, I got one of the most wonderful Christmas gifts ever from my in-laws. If you saw the title of this post, you’ve probably already guessed what it was — a KitchenAid Pro mixer. And if you’ve got one yourself, or ever seen one of the Pro or Artisan mixers in the stores, […]

Have you decided to take the leap of moving to a foreign country and joining the ranks of expats around the world? Do you just like to think about what it might be like to live somewhere overseas? Did you just move to a faraway land and now have no idea what to do with […]

April is nearly over (I can hardly believe it!) and I certainly hope that winter will not be coming back for many months. We did have a bit of a cool snap here in Germany and it is definitely still very “fresh” when we wake up in the morning (around 50 degrees) but in the […]