Food & Thoughts

Even more her best friend when she realizes she hasn't posted to her dear blog for, well, ages, AND her exam is just a little less than a month away. When she then on top of that realizes she's had just a bit too much fun with chocolate (and other food items) during the past four months for her to have really prepared for any of that - I guess you know how it goes, don't you? It's That Time Of Year where I try to cram, cram and cram some more and try to get ready for my exam. If I'm lucky, I'll even have some chocolatey friends to help me. Except maybe not the one in the top right corner. We weren't friends, and really, it was all his fault, 'cause he could just have come out of that Bundt pan already, yes he could! They are, from top to bottom, Classic Sour Cream Chocolate Chip Cake - Heirloom Devil's Food Layer Cake (My Birthday Cake this year) - and Milk Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake, all from Lisa Yockelson's ChocolateChocolate . (Btw., Luisa,...

And yesterday, I was one of them. Guess I should be - or at least I should know I am - seeing I'm the one doing most of our grocery shopping. But you know how it is: sometimes, the fridge and vegetable basket is just one big, blank, empty nothing. Either that, or my brain is one big: but how on earth can I put these things together and make them into something good ? Last night, my brain was my friend (maybe it's all the studying I've been doing lately that's making it try harder?) and the fridge was well stocked with jewels of spring. So I had this for dinner: freshly shelled peas, avocado, finely sliced radishes, baby salad leaves, cucumber, croutons and crumbled bacon. A spritz of lemon, a glug of good olive oil, salt, pepper - and a spoonful of homemade mayo for the croutons. Welcome back in my kitchen, spring!:-)

I wrote this post a while ago - to be exact, on the 12th. of February 2007. It's taken me a while to make the bread and take the pictures to go along with it, but it is no less real or emotionel for me for it. I still think about J almost every night, when I go to bed and lie there and am a little thankful for all the things I got. This one's for him. My Mom lost her best friend this past Sunday. I lost my ex-stepdad. He died of cancer, having been sick for a little longer than a year. He was just short of 60. And I don't know why, because for the last couple of years, he was nowhere near a part of my life - but I'm sad. So, so sad. I'm sad, because its too damn early for anyone to die. I'm sad because I know, this coming Thursday (my birthday) there wont be a handwritten card with a little erantis in it, carefully plucked from his garden, wishing me Happy Birthday, from him. There'll be no more of me calling my Mom, and her telling me how she's having ...

At your service, it's Dining with the Bloggers, coming to you LIVE from Copenhagen! Today, we're going to visit Susan. You probably know her as Farmgirl of the appropriately named Farmgirl Fare . She used to be a hardcore city chick, but these days, she lives with her donkey, dogs, cats and a herd of sheep (and a husband, no less) in Missouri. Farmgirl Fare is a foodblog, and then some. The most adorable stories about life on the farm, hilarious exchanges between chickens, gorgeous photos of farmlife and loads, loads more. I know there's a farmgirl hiding somewhere inside me, and there's no better place to live it out fully than at Susan's. If you don't know her already, you better get to know her - she's worth every minute. The way Susan cooks is as local as it gets. Vegetables from the garden , beef from their own cattle - local and organic as far as possible. I know, it's probably a whole lotta darn hard work. But it also sounds fantastic. What I real...

To say it has been a while since I participated in a blog event of any kind would be an understatement. Last time I did, it was for SHF 22 - heck, I can't even seem to answer the meme's I'm tagged for. I promise, I will - sooner or later (but if I was you, I'd put my money on later...) But. Onto the event at hand. Blog Party! This is an event, now at it's 21st. installment (hey, I was there for the first one !) held by Stephanie of Dispensing Happiness . Martin and I had the pleasure of meeting Stephanie (and Matt and her cute son, Alex) back when we travelled across USA last spring, staying for a couple of days with them in Knoxville. They took us book shopping (because surely, neither I, nor Stephanie own enough cookbooks) they took us to this gigantic market with only organic foods and we talked and talked for hours - about food, America and Americans, Europe and Europeans, tv-shows, dogs, children - you name it. It was fantastic being welcomed into the home o...