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A few recipes
Two great things. Florence, Italy. The Florence post will go up tomorrow. Meanwhile, here are some recipes for you to try. It just so happens that I am serving this for dinner tonight: Pulled Pork Barbecue (cooking it in a crock pot) Spicy Slaw No Egg Tirimasu Edited to add: Aledys tells me that she [...]
What happens when we run out of Stroopwafels
(my least favourite) I won’t tell you how many boxes of Daelman‘s double packs we brought over with us, but now they’re GONE. So as of yesterday, we’re going cold turkey and switching over to 100% British biscuits. A real hardship, you know ;-) Interestingly, we can buy Daelman’s stroopwafels at our local post office [...]
New Recipes
“Five Minute Chocolate Cake” in cupcake form straight out of the microwave. Not beautiful but certainly delicious. I haven’t talked about cooking much lately–I guess because I’ve kind of been in automatic mode (same-old, same-old). But here are some recipes I’ve tried recently that we’ve really enjoyed. Paula Deen’s Salmon Croquettes. A wonderful, old-fashioned recipe [...]
Ask an Expat: Ice in drinks
In the comments from last week’s Ask an Expat, Julia left me this question: I think it’s interesting that you want less from the U.S. I don’t know what I’d miss the most if I left. Maybe ice since I hear that you can never get ice in your drink in Europe. Is that true? [...]
Ask an Expat: Hagelslag and other Dutch treats
Mini boxes for sampling :-) When Mr. DJ first started working here in Den Haag a couple of years ago, he would often bring back these little boxes of sprinkles for Roxi. We couldn’t believe that the Dutch ate sprinkles on their toast for BREAKFAST. When we moved here last Summer, Roxi ate this every [...]
And drops of a different sort
I saw these in my back garden this weekend. Snowdrops… surely this means spring is near? Daffodils in March and Tulips in April, perhaps? Dear Mother Nature, don’t forget March starts next week. Love from one of your most devoted Springtime fans :-) Three years of recipes in a pretty 3″ binder. This is my [...]
Ask an Expat: Breakfast of Champions ;-)
This was actually going to be my Wordless Wednesday post yesterday, but I thought it needed a bit of explaining. One of the things Roxi likes best about the cereals here in the Netherlands is they contain REAL chocolate. This is the best one we’ve tried so far: Quaker’s (yes, like Quaker Oats, I think!) [...]
Dutch Pea Soup (Erwtensoep)
I was at Albert Heijn’s yesterday to pick up some stuff to make BD treats for Roxi’s math class (they need all the sugar they can get–LOL!) when I saw this Erwtensoep kit in the veggie section. Erwtensoep is a hearty split pea soup and though I’ve eaten it a couple of times, I’ve never [...]
Wordless Wednesday ~ 26: Some mornings you need that second cup
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Köln (Cologne), Germany
We’re back and exhausted! Three full days of walking and shopping will do that to you, I suppose. ;-) I have a bunch of photos to share, but first things first: Our Thanksgiving Dinner! It was a Herr, not a Fräulein, who brought us our beer. And it was in a glass, not a stein. [...]
