If you’ve been following my puppy posts (all four of them) you know I’ve been super excited to finally be in a good space and situation in my life to add a puppy in the mix (read: not working a gazillion hours, traveling around the globe, and generally just being too stinking busy most of [...]
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Puppy Love
Posted in Frenchie, Sweden, life, video, tagged animals, best in show, dog, dogs, french bulldog, frogdog, new dog, new puppy, pets, puppies, youtube on August 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Jason Mraz ~ Something Old is Something New
Posted in Sweden, life, music, travel & adventures, video, tagged entertainment, feeling good, I'm Yours, Jason Mraz, Life is Wonderful, male singer, music, opinion, singer, songs, video, youtube on August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was fumbling through my iPod to resurrect some long forgotten tunes and I decided to give my older Jason Mraz CD’s a whirl again. I’ve been a fan of San Diego based Mraz for years but haven’t spun his older tracks in many moons. I’m sure you’ve heard his current hit, I’m Yours, that’s [...]
Janet’s Fabulous Salmon Cakes
Posted in Sweden, expat, food & wine, recipes, tagged dinner, family, fish, Food, midnight sun, old bay seasoning, recipe, salmon, salmon cakes, seafood, sister in law, tasty on July 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Janet for over twenty years. She has an amazing smile that sparkles from across the room, finds humor in even the small things, competes in triathlons AND in addition to be an incredible mom to the sweetest niece and nephew an aunt could want, coach & mentor of young [...]
A Little Slice of Heaven
Posted in Sweden, beauty, expat, fashion, interior design, life, photos, shopping, tagged antique, antiques, Audi A2, collecting, design, expensive, furniture, old, pictures, top secret, vintage on May 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Shhhh. Don’t tell anyone, but we know a guy who has a cousin who knows someone else who got us into this A.M.A.Z.I.N.G warehouse (read: not open to the public and or for sale in this country) stuffed to the gills with gorgeous antiques.
Now, those who know me and have been to any of my [...]
Polar Bread Pimped by a Reindeer
Posted in Sweden, expat, food & wine, life, random, shopping, tagged Food, grocery shopping, polar bread, reindeer on April 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Not something I would normally ever in a million years come in contact with back home in my Whole Foods Market, so you can imagine I was a bit jolted when I rounded the corner in the grocery store and laid my big brown eyes on this guy. He was marketing, Polar Bread or Polarbröd [...]
Who Knew I Would Need All That Math?
Posted in Sweden, expat, food & wine, life, tagged calculator, conversions, gadget, kitchen calculator, math, measurements, metric system, problem solving, scale, US customary units on April 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’m up to my eyeballs in conversions. Every day, all day long, I am converting something, someway in my teeny tiny head. Miles to kilometers, gallons to liters, inches to centimeters, USD to SEK, cups to deciliters, Fahrenheit to Celsius, acres to hectares, tablespoons to grams, pounds to kilos, feet to meters – when [...]
Who needs a haircut?
Posted in Sweden, expat, life, photos, random, tagged beef, country, country living, haircut, highland beef, meat, picture, Scottish highland beef, shaggy on April 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I noticed this joker on my way to the grocery store today.
He was hanging out with some of his friends and I thought it was some sort of bison - yeah, I know – shows my country ignorance, huh? Later in the evening chewing on a tasty dinner at Fattie’s parents place, I mentioned I had run into [...]
Date Week. Adventures in Water.
Posted in Sweden, humor, life, thoughts, travel & adventures, tagged funny, personal, shoes, Love, my life, relationships, swimming, date night, date week, dating, pool, working out, adventures, water, gym, Swedes, OCD, fitness, swimming pool, seniors, age, old, exercise on March 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I know, normally it’s date night but for us it has been date week.
We wanted to spend time together while doing something good for ourselves and our bodies. We quickly agreed on the answer. Regular trips to the gym followed by evenings of cooking for each other. With the upcoming nuptials and my latest attempt [...]
Quick and Simple Gravlax Carpaccio
Posted in Sweden, food & wine, recipes, tagged appetizer, appetizers, carpaccio, cooking, easy food, Emeril Lagasse, fish, Food, gravlax, home cooking, quick food, raw, raw food, recipe, recipes, salmon, Scandinavia, Scandinavian cooking, Sweden on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Of course, it’s always wonderful and such a treat to have someone cook dinner for you, but Fattie’s food is absolutely grubbing – so it’s double the fun.
He casually and ever so cutely whipped up this appetizer: gravlax carpaccio.
So, yeah, you know carpaccio is typically super thin slices of raw beef drizzled with a dressing [...]
