June 15th, 2010

Pour Me a Bowl of Mini Wheats

This morning I rolled out of bed, grabbed a bowl, and took the milk out of the fridge. I reached for the box of Mini Wheats that I bought last night and opened them. Imagine my surprise when I looked down into the box of cereal and saw Lucky Charms. I had forgot that [...]

April 26th, 2010

Pork Hock Sauce

Internet,

For dinner last night I made the family-favourite Pork Hock Sauce. It was my first time making this. I took some photos of the process. My favourites are:

thick enough to hold up a spoon; real men don’t use a lid (the woman cleans up, of course); pork stringing off a breadstick; the [...]

April 8th, 2010

Ate some funny tasting fish; if I don’t make it…

Tonight I ate some funny tasting fish for dinner. If I don’t wake up tomorrow you’ll know why.

April 7th, 2010

Was it really much of a challenge? Hershey Eggies vs. Cadbury Mini Eggs

A coworker of mine had purchased some Hershey Eggies on sale after this past Easter weekend. This lead us to discuss the differences between Eggies and Cadbury’s Mini Eggs. He challenged me on what I thought was universally agreed: Cadbury Mini Eggs are better than Hershey Eggies. His statement was that they are the [...]

March 7th, 2010

Dinner – Pan-seared chicken breast with balsamic vinegar, garlic, and onion sauce

Let me tell you about dinner.

Soup was a tomato and roasted red pepper soup from the PC blue menu. I added some fresh basil to give it that edge. We had some fresh buns that went really well with the soup.

The entree was a pan-seared chicken breast topped a balsamic vinegar sauce [...]

November 29th, 2009

Gourmet Sloppy Joes

Tonight we started with my home made feta pate, served with sliced fresh baguette. This was followed by an Italian tomato and bocconcini salad with fresh basil in a balsamic vinegar and olive oil dressing.

For the entree I served sloppy joes topped with a slice of avocado and a side of fresh, baked [...]

September 14th, 2009

Berlin Wrap-Up

I was in Berlin. The proof: I know about the Ampelmann. Oh, and there are my photos from the trip.

Church was lively and fun, the Currywurst museum was great, and the rain saved itself until the end of my weekend. Well, actually, it rained about an hour before I had to set out [...]

September 9th, 2009

I Have Started a Thing

I know that there is at least one person who has read that headline and become very afraid about what this post is about. But fear not: this is a follow-up to my pumpkin pie story!

You’ll recall that I recently hosted dinner and pumpkin pie for a few colleagues. At lunch today I [...]

August 17th, 2009

Currywurst Museum

I found something else to do in Berlin: the Deutsches Currywurst Museum.