Day 16, and the fairies in my head are beginning to lose the plot. Despite the last weeks worth of evening walks in the most golden of gin hours, they (the fairies) have chosen to bemoan the dry papery wind that is howling over the wheat pastures from the beckoning Rhine. I’ve run out of … More Recipe: Grilled Vegetable Salad.
My Mom used to make a soup for dinner, way back in the days when we were kids. It was tomato and barley with bacon chopped into it, and I absolutely loved it. But she made it so seldom that I never had a chance to ask her about it. Barley wasn’t prevalent in our … More Recipe: Beef, Bacon and Barley Casserole
I saw a post on Facebook early last week that made me scratch my head in disbelief. At first I couldn’t decide if it was a tongue in cheek article, or if it was genuine display of solidarity. It was a local Strasbourg blog where the authors shared their admiration for the continuation of work … More Recipe: 4 Bean Salad
If you remember, I spent 12 years eating food at boarding schools. 1980′ and 1990’s government boarding schools mind you; not private boarding schools with a veritable buffet selection, but a ‘eat what we put in front of you‘ selection. At HHS (Howick High School) where the food was literally 100 times better than RPS … More Recipes for Lockdown: Chicken Curry
2020 dawned, with people full of positivity and wishes for a good start to the new decade. But just as soon as we had got over our hangovers, and Christmas food belly’s, we started seeing news from China of this flu pandemic, the corona virus. To cut out all the rhetoric you already have read, … More TĂ©lĂ©travail, Homeschooling and all that pertains to Covid-19
Pinot, Bretzels, and Cathedrals 