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Life & TimesHighs and Lows.
What can I say, other than the past week has been filled with its fair share of highs and lows... The good? +Hanging out with Lou Barlow and Murph of Dinosaur…
February 19, 2013 · 2 min read
Life & TimesWhen Sickness Strikes...
Sickness has struck our household once again, and this translates to sleeping in, eating lots of fruit, and drinking lots of water and tea. There is plenty of…
February 15, 2013 · 3 min read
Life & TimesGraefekiez and its Surrounds.
When M. was growing up in what was once West Berlin, his neighborhood on Grimmstraße was considered a somewhat poor area on the outskirts of town. Now, it has…
February 12, 2013 · 3 min read
Eat & DrinkAppetite For Reduction: Basic Baked Tofu with Sweet & Salty Maple Baby Carrots & Silky Chickpea Gravy
Last weekend, the two of us made a relatively simple and standard meal with a combination of the Basic Baked Tofu (page 144), Sweet & Salty Maple Baby Carrots…
February 3, 2013 · 1 min read
Life & TimesFirst of February.
On Thursday evening, after a particularly taxing day of submitting my final Ph.D. application and attending German class, I announced that Friday would be a…
February 2, 2013 · 3 min read
Life & TimesWinter Walk.
Hard to believe that January is almost over, but it is. However, this weekend has been lovely thus far, particularly since M. returned from a business trip in…
January 27, 2013 · 3 min read
Eat & DrinkAppetite For Reduction: Eggplant Dengaku & Sushi Roll Edamame Salad with Green Onion-Miso Vinaigrette
After a couple weeks off, M. worked a whole 3 days in the beginning of the year before the weekend came around again. That Saturday, when we went shopping for…
January 26, 2013 · 2 min read
Life & TimesChristmas in Germany.
It's a month overdue, I know, but here's a little glimpse into our German Christmas this past year. It was a warm cozy evening full of family, food, and fun,…
January 24, 2013 · 2 min read
Life & TimesBerlin: Holy Shit Shopping
Every year in December, since 2004, a little something called Holy Shit Shopping comes to Berlin (some people may have heard of it, or its counterpart for the…
January 18, 2013 · 2 min read
Eat & DrinkResolutions, or: things I hope to accomplish this year.
The word "resolution" is a particularly tricky one, don't you think? I like to believe that people can make positive and lasting changes at any point in the…
January 17, 2013 · 7 min read
Eat & DrinkAppetite For Reduction: Eggplant Kibbeh & Hummus
After making the Eggplant Dengaku (coming soon), we happened to have quite a bit of leftover eggplant, so I searched for recipes that would use them up and…
January 12, 2013 · 2 min read
Life & TimesEllasaurus Pinot Noir Tortoise: April 20, 2004 - December 22, 2012
The death of a pet is a particularly strange thing, because non-pet owners often don't "get" it, and other pet owners know what it's like, but the loss of an…
January 5, 2013 · 10 min read