I know I already talked about my food and blog-related resolutions for the year, but I have one more I want to share. It’s not directly food-related and it’s also not really a resolution, more like something I just decided I want to do. I decided that I want to attempt running a half-marathon, so [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Will run for food
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged race, running on Sunday, 28 February, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm
Posted in eesti keeles, eesti meeles, Väliseestlane, tagged Estonia on Wednesday, 24 February, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Täna on Eesti Vabariigi 92. sünnipäev. Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm, kui kaunis oled sa! Elagu Eesti! Estonian flag on Suur Munamägi, September 2005 Today is the 92nd anniversary of the Republic of Estonia– Estonia’s Independence Day. The title of the post comes from the first line of the Estonian national anthem: My native [...]
Master baker
Posted in I Cook Sometimes, tagged baking, biscotti, naan on Wednesday, 17 February, 2010 | 5 Comments »
OK, so I’m totally not a master baker. But so far this year I’ve tackled two baking projects that were sort of intimidating to me and I totally nailed them, so my confidence is the baking realm is soaring. The first project was biscotti. I wrote about my second batch here, but my premier batch [...]
Real guacamole
Posted in Expat, I Cook Sometimes, tagged avocado, guacamole on Wednesday, 10 February, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I made guacamole last night. Avocados were on sale at Rimi last weekend for 18 kroons per kilo (which is… um… about 72 American cents per pound. They usually cost about twice that). Anyway, I’d already been craving guacamole for a while, so I took advantage of the price and stocked up with a few [...]
Nutella follow-up
Posted in Blog Stuff, tagged Nutella on Wednesday, 10 February, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A picture of my lovely Nutella biscotti was included in the round-up for World Nutella Day. If you’d like to see it (and see about a MILLION other uses for Nutella), go here!