Category Food
I Heart Chocolate
Three bites of heaven. This is why you always go to weddings where the bride lives in Belgium. (The Maid of Honor was clearly onto something when she persuaded the guy with the left-overs to give her an extra box. If only I’d had the presence of mind to get in on the deal!)
Berlin – Wedding Day
Saturday morning before the wedding was a study in contrasts: Niko: He got up at a normal time, showered, strolled down to the dry cleaners to pick up the shirt he’d forgotten to get the day before, watched a few episodes of Portlandia online (per my recommendation the day before) in his pyjamas. Eventually it was time to […]
Berlin – Wedding’s Eve
So. Berlin. There and back in three days. Thirty-six hours of wedding-related eating, singing, partying, dancing, speaking French, not speaking German, renewing old friendships, making new ones, saying farewell until next time. No sight-seeing. Almost no sleeping. On that last point, I’m happy to report that jetlag actually makes it easier to keep up a breakneck pace […]
Breakfast in Amsterdam
We arrived in Amsterdam an hour ahead of schedule. Then the Dutch proved to be world champion passport controllers — through the line, stamped an out in under five minutes, definitely a record. So now I have two full hours to eat some breakfast, drink some Spa water (hands down the best water ever) and […]
Weekend Update
It’s Sunday night and, as I review my weekend activities for blog material, I’m feeling uninspired. Which is kind of unfortunate, because it was a perfectly good weekend. The problem is that I’ve been battling a headache all day, and I really just want to go to bed. I blame it on the surprise pre-General Conference Fast Sunday. First, though, here’s […]
Those silly Russians
The theater season has officially begun! Which means one of my favorite Friday routines is back: Step 1: Leave work early (i.e., at 6pm) and have dinner at Le Pain Quotidien while reading the French translation of a ridiculous “Swedish noir” crime novel. Open-faced sandwich with avocado and prosciutto(the prosciutto had been cooked so it was crspy like […]
In their shells
I’ve eaten snails before. They’re delicious. But I’ve always preferred to eat them when they look like little brown things swimming in butter and garlic (and perhaps topped by an egg). I other words, I’ve eaten snails, but only when they didn’t look like snails. Last night, while sitting on the terrasse at the French restaurant Petits […]
Vampire Jammies
So, if you get bitten by a hot vampire, then you turn into a hot vampire too, right? Isn’t that the moral of all those Twilight stories? Pretty sure that’s right. (Unless, of course, you just die — but let’s focus on the positive here.) But what happens if the vampire that bites you is more “warm and cozy” […]
Labor Day
Labor Day is one of the better holidays for visiting DC — you get the benefit of a holiday (no commuter traffic, parking regulations aren’t enforced) but it’s late enough in the year that the masses of tourists are gone (yay!). This means we had the place essentially to ourselves. Capitol TourWe started with a tour […]
Heather’s here!
Having sent her husband fishing and her children off to the mines their grandparents’, my darling twin sister has arrived in Washington, DC, for an extended Labor Day weekend. It’s her first visit to the nation’s capital, so there’s no end of Things To Do — and believe me, I’ve created quite the itinerary. When I asked her what […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 