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 […]

We love-love-LOVE breakfast here in the Casa del Muehli’s and generally go the sweet route with pancakes or French toast (especially now that we have a griddle again after our last one melted down.) But some mornings, we’re craving something with a little more heartiness behind it, so we scramble some eggs, grab some potatoes, […]

In America, it was quite easy. You went into the grocery story, you picked up a bag of flour, you took it home and you did whatever you wanted with it. It was the flour called for in every recipe known to man: all-purpose flour. And it would make sense that this multipurpose, good for […]

In the movie About a Boy, Hugh Grant plays a man who has more money than pure interest in life, and he talks about how he breaks down each day into “units” of 30 minutes. This not only helps him to structure his day, but most tasks he participates in take about this amount of […]