After noticing a sign on my walk to work yesterday morning that said “Tallinn Restaurant Week“, I may have picked up my pace a little so that I could get to my work computer and check out all the details online. Sure enough, the capital of Estonia is having its first ever Restaurant Week from [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Restaurant Week is coming!
Posted in Something to Eat, tagged Restaurant Week, Tallinn on Saturday, 29 October, 2011 | 1 Comment »
New Orleans cooking class
Posted in I Cook Sometimes, Travel, tagged bread pudding, cooking class, gumbo, jambalaya, New Orleans, praline on Wednesday, 26 October, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As I mentioned in my last post, J surprised me with two awesome gift certificates for my birthday– one for a manicure and pedicure right before our vacation so I could kick off the trip with pretty nails, and the other for a demonstration cooking class in New Orleans!! I was so excited to have [...]
New Orleans, LA
Posted in Expat, It's Drink O'Clock, Travel, tagged Abita, beignet, coffee, drinks, muffuletta, New Orleans, po' boy on Sunday, 23 October, 2011 | 2 Comments »
One of the first side trips we made after arriving in the States in August was to New Orleans, Louisiana (our “home base” was at my parents’ home in Maryland). Neither of us had ever been, and we discovered a colorful, lively city filled with the friendliest people ever! Let’s get started… Before we had [...]
Staying in
Posted in Family, I Cook Sometimes, tagged birthday, chicken, family, Greek, Moet & Chandon, sparkling wine on Sunday, 16 October, 2011 | 4 Comments »
When my mother was visiting Tallinn in June and July, we naturally went out a lot. Dinner at new restaurants, warm summer evenings of sipping drinks on terraces– all the kinds of things that people like to do when they’re on vacation. I like to go out to dinner as much as the next person, [...]
