food and life in the foreign service
When we go shopping for groceries, sometimes I'm really good about planning the menu ahead of time, and sometimes we just grab things -- a pork loin here, chicken breasts there -- and say we'll come up with a recipe later. This roast pork loin was one of the former. I hunted around for a... Continue Reading →
So it finally happened: we found out where we will be living for the next two years! One of the many perks of Foreign Service life is that we are usually assigned housing from a pool of properties owned or rented by the US government. The size of one's house depends on the availability and... Continue Reading →
Grant has been sick, off and on, for the past few weeks. As a surprise for him when he finally began to feel better, I decided to try my hand at making cinnamon rolls from scratch. In Uzbekistan, one of our housekeeper’s specialties was cinnamon rolls, and they were incredibly delicious. While I was a... Continue Reading →
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