Mmmmm… quiche!

I have a ridiculous amount of emails to write. I’m such a bad correspondent, but people still send me emails, which I feel increasingly guilty about not getting to, until they are inevitably lapped by the next email from the same person. Terrible, I know. If I owe you an email out there in reader-land, [...]

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Gulasch with polenta

I made some wonderful gulasch this weekend, but Stefan ended up not being able to eat any because of a serious sore throat following his surgery. Too spicy. I love gulasch, it’s a perfect winter food and really easy to prepare, though it does have to cook for a while. For 2 servings, you’ll need [...]

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Love is creating spreadsheets

While I wait for work to come in this morning, I thought I’d write about last week’s blogroll question (I’m behind already!): What do you eat when you’re alone? I like this question. Meals are almost always a compromise, aren’t they? Last night for example. We were out looking at cars (we’re thinking about replacing [...]

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Dentists and dumplings

Yet another journal entry swallowed by the black hole that is my computer. I was at the dentist yesterday, finally got up the courage to make an appointment. Ever since I had my first cavity and the Austrian dentist filling it without anesthetic (costs extra and you have to know to ask for it pretty [...]

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Couch update plus Asian snowpea stir fry

OK, now for my third attempt to write this post without Word crashing. The two programs we have to have open in order to translate (Word and Translator’s Workbench) do not always jive, so crashes are pretty common. They tend to come in waves, strangely enough. No crashes for weeks and then a crash every [...]

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How far have you ever traveled for food?

The blogroll subject of the week is “How far have you traveled for food”. Unfortunately, I don’t have any spectacular story of intercontinental journeys for tacos. I guess the farthest I’ve traveled would be clear across Vienna, on foot, for a hot dog (I’m using the term hotdog for all the myriad kinds of sausages sold at [...]

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Dumplings

Haven’t posted much recently, but we had a barrage of visitors and then I was sick. Just a cold, but it was the cold from hell (TM). Still is, in fact. It’s been a week and I don’t feel 100% well yet, but I can’t justify staying at home, you know? I did take two [...]

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Warm zucchini salad

Here’s something simple yet delicious, which we like to eat as an alternative to salad. You’ll need: a zucchini a clove of garlic a spring onion (optional) salt & pepper olive oil and balsamic vinegar Dice the zucchini.  The amount totally depends on how many servings you want.  Slice the garlic and spring onion into [...]

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Veggie Soup

It’s been kind of a lousy week.  I’m just in one of those crabby moods, you know, the kind you just can’t get out of.  I’m sure it doesn’t help that the weather has been cold and wet.  I did manage to get some of my sewing done yesterday though.  I’ve had a pile of [...]

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Pudding

Stefan had a hankering for pudding yesterday afternoon, so I went to go make some.  Come to find out we don’t have any pudding mix!  Then Stefan wandered into the kitchen and happened to see the cornstarch in the same “baking” drawer where the pudding mix would’ve been if we’d had any.  “You can make [...]

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