food and life in the foreign service
As I recently mentioned, it was Scarlett's birthday earlier this week. To celebrate it, I decided to make a cake, even though I haven't made one in years (literally. something happened to one of my cake pans before I arrived in Tashkent and I didn't purchase a new set until right before packout for Belgrade, so... Continue Reading →
I love watermelon and recently, I've been taking advantage of the rock-bottom prices (we've found them for as low as roughly 8 cents/lb) and delicious melons that Serbia has to offer. My latest thing is making watermelon granita. Not only is it delicious and refreshing but it also looks pretty impressive -- yet is incredibly... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
I know, a lot of pumpkin spice on the blog -- and not a whole lot of blogging; I'm full of reasons/excuses. First and foremost, Serbian takes up a lot of my brainpower, with not much left over for the blog. I'm trying to get better about it but it also happens to be college... Continue Reading →
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