I give you tempeh, made by my very own hands. The first picture is the raw deal, so to speak, and the second is what I ate for dinner tonight, tempeh dusted in flour and spices (onion powder, chili powder, ginger, salt, and pepper) and stir-fried with wok vegetables. I’ll understand if you’re skeptical–I was… Read More Fun with soybeans
In keeping with the conventions of my adopted homeland, I took down the Christmas trees yesterday. In truth, I generally like to do it a lot earlier than mid-January, but this year I had a hard time finding the energy to deal with it all, and waiting until St. Knut’s Day seemed a better reason… Read More That’s that tree plundered.
Shortly after I posted my list of things gone missing, I found my fingernail clippers buried among the clutter on Lydia’s desk (truthfully, that should always be the first place I look for anything that’s been misplaced). It was no accident that those clippers occupied first spot on the list–the value of good fingernail clippers… Read More Two down, one to go!
my good fingernail clippers Petra’s Nintendo DS Lite my wedding ring
It is COLD outside, even for northern Sweden in January. Depending on which of our thermometers you check, the temperature right now is anywhere from -17°C to -19°C (that’s right around zero, or even a little below, for you Fahrenheiters). That’s cold enough, even, for kids’ outside activities–like Saturday morning ice skating, for instance–to be… Read More Silver lining
Olof and I took the little kids outside at the stroke of midnight last night so that they could ooh and aah at the fireworks. We lasted about ten or fifteen minutes out there in the subzero chill before we moved ourselves inside and stationed Tage and Petra at the living room window (please excuse… Read More Gott Nytt År!
That Olof and I are drinking rum-spiked Kool-Aid this New Year’s Eve (with different color straws to set them apart from the kids’ drinks, of course), or that we actually think it tastes good?
Two of Petra’s favorite ways to entertain herself are walking with her eyes closed and walking while spinning around in circles. I can’t be sure, but I think she was engaged in one or the other last night when she tripped over a big box containing Lydia’s old Barbie dolls and ended up with the… Read More Her hair looks fine, but her eye is another story
The purchase several weeks ago of Wii Music brought to the fore in Olof an unprecedented need to make music. On the first day of his vacation (oh, didn’t I tell you? He’s been off work since December 15, and doesn’t go back until January 7 … it’s awesome), he came home with a big,… Read More We got the beat