When I cook, I try to use mostly seasonal, local ingredients. However, there are times, when say I’ve just come back from a trip where I’ve been eating mostly sausage and potatoes, when all I want to eat is the vegetable soup that my mom used to make from a recipe that came from Weight Watchers some 20 years ago. In such as a case as that I might just buy zucchini and some tomatoes that were grown in some far off place where it’s currently summer and call it a day. After the starchy excesses of Berlin I was craving this soup something awful. It’s super simple, easy to make but feels really good.
Stockholm, Sweden
I feel that I’ve been everywhere in the past month or so, visiting friends and family in Los Angeles, Berlin, Stockholm and Paris.
Berlin, Germany
While it was nice to be away, and to see new places, it feels really good to be home again. I spent the first few days just lazing around the house, cleaning, organizing, and cooking. I made vegetable soup and croissants. I’ve sorted through the piles of mail, and life is returning to normal. When I begin to tire of normal life my film should be developed and I’ll be able to relive my adventures all over again.
Hallo from Berlin! If I’m a little absent from these here parts it’s because I’m putting on twenty five layers and enjoying the freezing cold temperatures while trudging through the city. Thankfully there’s gluhwein (a hot mulled wine) to be had, which warms you up for 3 euros or less, if only New York had such things. . . .
I’ll see you when I get back, and I’ll tell you all about it once I get all my film developed. In the meantime, check out the latest roundup of Gourmet Unbound!
tschüs!
* photo credit goes to Amir. If I had taken this photo it would have been a lot more crooked.
