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 […]

As I sit here typing this, a winter storm is moving in from the North-West that is going to blanket most of Germany in snow. We’re only supposed to get a couple of inches but other places will get almost a foot. And in this region, that’s pretty much unheard of. We’ve been here in […]

When you live with a little kid, Christmas starts to take on a whole new life again. I’ve always been a fan of Christmas, but there were definitely a few years before we had Mackenzie that we we starting to feel a bit fed up with all the commercialism. When you’ve got a toddler at […]

It’s always important to have a few meals in your repertoire that involve ingredients that you seem to always have on hand. For us, that is usually shrimp (because we buy it on sale and but don’t usually eat it that often) and asparagus (because I always seem to want to eat it when it […]