For the Love of Food

I have come down with a bit of a cold after being sick with something else last week.   I will be back in a few days.

Update (Jan 14): It looks like I have the stomach flu too…  it looks like it will be a few days longer.

Happy 2009 everyone!

I decided to analyze my blog from January 2008 – December 2008 to see what you like.

Why?
I want to see more of you around my blog more often. And, that means finding out what you like.

How?
I looked at all my posts and saw what you commented most on and I learned quite a lot.

What? Continue Reading »

This year I “discovered” a small, warm,and romantic Christmas market in my town. Who knew my town had 2 Christmas markets??!!

Apparently, each year for 10 days during Advent there is a Christmas market in the historic downtown of my town (Fürth). And, it’s a more traditional one – or so I would guess.

It just finished this Saturday, but it will be back next year.

There we found:

An Iron Smith:

A glass blower:

A Carpenter:

A Tin Man:

Felt Crafters:

A Paper Book/Journal Crafter:

Warm drinks and friendly chatter:

And this guy…who closes the market every evening:

It’s a small market…but a fine one.

Last month I blogged about a book my husband found and we bought and read called “Twelve Hours Sleep by Twelve Weeks Old” (by Suzy Giordano, Lisa Abidin) recommended by Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing.

I am SOOO HAPPY to let you know that all the recommendations in this book not only work, they are easy too.  There was very little crying involved, eventhough my son was 21 months old when we started (now he’s 22 months old).  And, this method worked from day one.  We started seeing results slowly – we did have a few nights the first 2 weeks of sitting next to a night light re-reading some recommendations.  But, by week 3 our son was sleeping through the night and taking 1 nap a day on time – AND we were all well rested and in a good mood.

Now, 4 weeks later, he knows when his bed time is and there’s no complaining involved – not even at nap time! The “key” is having a schedule.  You can have any schedule you like, but you have to stick to it.  Ours is as follows: Continue Reading »

I just wanted to remind you all that sign-up for Taste&Create ended on the 8th of December BUT, I am extending it by a few days/hours.

So, if you can get your info into me by 5am tomorrow I will put you on the partner list. I’m in the time zone of UTC +1 – that’s 11pm Eastern Standard Time tonight, or 3pm on Thursday in Sydney, Australia.

If you’ve never heard of Taste&Create you can find out more here.

Please send your sign-up request to tasteandcreate [at] rezimo [dot] com

with the following information:

your name
the name of your blog
your blog’s address
your email address

My husband turned this “ordinary” old music cabinet that we got on Ebay into an awesome multi functional cabinet.

As I said in my last post:

I have to say that it is the most exciting piece of furniture in our apartment because it works as a tromp l’oeil. It goes from being this: Continue Reading »

So, slowly I have been opening my home to you. And, I have been putting off showing you my living room, bedroom, and hallway. Decorating takes a while when you want it to grow organically, but I have hit the proverbial wall when it comes to parts of my living room, so I am asking for some help.

For those of you solely interested in the Music Cabinet Hack: please see this post with all the details.

Ok…so about my living room. Continue Reading »

I’d like to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving.

Even though I am in Germany, I am also preparing for a big meal to share with my closest friends.

My next post will be on Sunday. And, it will be a mega post with 11 recipes in one post!! I may even throw in 3 more recipes…not so sure yet. If this post freaks you out as much as it does me (because of it’s insane size), rest assured that I will be posting the recipes in single form after the fact.

Off to some more baking!

I want to apologize to all of you.

I promised I would have a video today on how to make pie crust. Well, I have a video that I made with my cell phone that looks great and sounds great on my phone, but my computer doesn’t seem to support the sound files. So, it will take me a few days to figure out where I can find a program to properly read a .3pg file. And, with Thanksgiving just around the corner, I regret that it may come to the fact that this will be posted after the fact. It really bums me out.  Any of you know any good free software I could use??? My husband found something…they are converting…and maybe I can have something for you guys this week!!

But, on a happier note, I can show you all some more finished rooms in my apartment after they were renovated.

So, the image above is of my son’s room (the nursery) and my husband’s office.  They are in one large room together and are devided in half by some great Ikea shelves. Continue Reading »

As promised yesterday, as well as the day before, I am going to give you a tour of my “new” kitchen.

Many of you know that my apartment has been a work in progress since November of 2004. And, we are almost done – it’s just so hard to motivate the people you contract out to to do the last few little things!!

Anyways, the kitchen is done, and I want to share it with you… Continue Reading »