by No Ordinary Homestead | Dec 6, 2010 | Food
I don’t know how things look where you are, but there is snow on the ground here and it’s about to get seriously cold once again. We’re talking -14°C (4°F) and there may be more snow heading our way. And all these cold temperatures just make me want to curl up with a...
by No Ordinary Homestead | Oct 29, 2010 | Food
When we bought our home and added the kitchen, I knew I had to have two ovens. I don’t use them both often — but when I do want to cook a feast and need them, it’s priceless. This is a concept that really hasn’t caught in Germany, mostly because people have rather...
by No Ordinary Homestead | Apr 13, 2010 | Food
Over Easter I bought all the goodies needed to have smoked salmon with potato pancakes for breakfast. But I ended up with way too much salmon (as usual) and not enough potato pancakes…so what to do? I’ve been to a few Italian restaurants where they served a smoked...
by No Ordinary Homestead | Nov 24, 2009 | Food
November 24, 2009 by Tiffany Leave a Comment (Edit) I was feeling adventurous this weekend and decided to try something totally new. A recent mental inventory of our freezer trunk reminded me we had a bunch of okra I froze and a bag of shrimp that were just begging to...
by No Ordinary Homestead | Nov 17, 2009 | Christmas, Entertaining, Food
Our Christmas menu, like New Year’s, is always a bit up in the air at this time of year. Last year it was fairly easy for us to decide because we wanted a Thanksgiving-style dinner since we skipped our Thanksgiving dinner last November. We figured it would be a bit...