"Jump to recipe!" After my last post, I thought, why not offer something new to the blog to help those of us who are keen to get ...

Rhubarb, for many, is an acquired taste, often not acquired till adulthood. I did not acquire the taste until a few years after I moved to...

On a Spring day in April, I packed my camera gear and props to make the roughly one-and-a-half-hour drive from Weimar to Eichsfeld. The we...

The basket brimming with fresh fruit, vegetables and a few early spring flowers are loaded into the boot of my car. It is a lovely sunny m...

To me it never really feels like summer until cherries arrive in the markets. Cherries announce the beginning of the stone-fruit season a...

Martinshörnchen are available only once a year. From November 10 th to 11 th bakeries in our region, especially around Weimar and Erfu...

I’m spoiling you with tomatoes again. You see, I’ve had a good crop and the harvest has been plentiful. After eating them mostly naked an...

  [Farinata | Image for Köstlich Vegetarisch Italian Special 04/2013] Time has been speeding past me like a super-high speed jet. It’s like ...

I disliked it the first time, finding it tedious and struggled my way through it for most of my school years. I had to work hard at it....

After my return from Dubai I was thinking of taking a few days out before jumping into the familiar high powered routine I usually have....

  How did this happen? And how come it happened so soon? And am I really ready? Do I have a choice? These were just a few of the many quest...

  Could these possibly be the last of the strawberries for the year? It seems not too long ago that we were just getting excited about the s...

  She was always very meticulous and precise in the kitchen, never a hint of chaos or hectic surrounding her. The perfect hostess at the sev...

Have you all bought and packed your Christmas presents yet? Just 10 days till the big day, you know. This whole week we have been get...

Dreams are magnificent journeys that never cost us anything, but are invaluable in the way they make us thrive, inspire us and push us to as...

  Change. It looks like such an elementary word written on a blank piece of paper. As my cursor blinked at the end of the word however, I re...

   Incredible how fast the days have swept by.  Like the soft rains of April, sweet, refreshing and short, it has left a scent heavy with th...

  It started to snow on Monday. Big, fluffy flakes, so that now Weimar is under a slightly light white blanket. But it’s not going to s...

    One of the things I enjoy the most is creating a recipe on the spur of the moment. The ideas seem to emerge in my head and I feel the im...

   This weekend I was able to create a milestone to call my own. A milestone that fills me entirely with pride and honor. This weekend I b...