Our Christmas Eve dinner was a very hefty T-Bone steak from our local butcher, lobster tails, baked sweet potatoes and a lovely lamb’s lettuce salad with fried smoked bacon and champagne vinegar. SO delicious and way too much food. We all ate the lovely filet cut out of our steaks and left the rest, which […]

I’m finally starting to get back into my work groove even though Stefan is still on vacation. It’s usually not that easy for me, but somehow now that he’s been on vacation over a week and the holiday chaos is behind us, I’m ready for work to resume. And I certainly have plenty in store […]

When you’ve got a little one at home in diapers, you seem to go through an unlimited supply of baby wipes every week. I know there are some people out there that make their own baby wipes with old towels, rags or socks…and I’m sure you could use those with this solution as well. But […]

If you’re like us, you have eaten and eaten and eaten over the last week until you feel like you’re going to burst. We’ve got leftovers galore filling our fridge and will easily be eating off of it for the next week, as long as we stay creative in the kitchen and don’t get sick […]

Christmas in Germany cannot be celebrated without Lebkuchen. They are  a traditional German cookie that is a bit like gingerbread, but usually has a bit more substance added to the dough like carrots, raisins and nuts. They were originally created by Medieval monks in Franconia, Germany in the 13th century and bakers in Nuremberg were […]