Holiday Gift Guide for the Tea Lover
I think you already know this by now, but I l-o-v-e tea. I probably drink anywhere from 3-7 cups of tea a day. When I have met fellow sole tea drinkers, they seem to love tea just as much as I do. So if you have any tea drinkers on your holiday shopping list, there […]
Nutella Brownie Bites
Last week, Jon’s office threw us a celebratory “apero” for our recent nuptials. I thought it was just a casual happy hour, so I arrived fashionably late, per usual. As I arrived, everyone was sitting down in a circle and there was an empty seat at the head of the circle, next to Jon, waiting […]
Sour Cream Apple Bars
Our friends, Colette and Jeffrey (you may remember his bloody mary’s), made a 2-day pit stop in Zurich on their vacation throughout Germany. We haven’t had many guests yet, but I think after this past weekend, we have created a nice little routine for future visitors. Unsurprisingly, it involves a lot of food…both sweet and […]
Pumpkin Snickerdoodles
A couple of weekends ago, we made a day trip to a farm outside of Zurich that had a pumpkin festival. I read that you could also go apple picking, but the closest thing we got to finding the apple orchard was finding the apple maze. Due to our lack of speaking the language, delicious […]
Salted Caramel Apple Pie
I have this bad habit when I bake. I seldom read the directions in full before I start making the recipe. I mean, I have good intentions to do so, but my impatience gets the best of me and I just start baking. My mom did not understand this. I would mess up whatever I […]
Homemade Vanilla Extract
I wonder how my days go by so quickly with so little accomplished. I’ve decided to blame it on the fact that everything takes longer than normal. Everything is still foreign to me. So, I guess I just take my sweet time trying to get used to these foreign things.