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Yesterday we did a first batch of Kimchi. Do you know how hard it is to get Chinese cabbage in March? We toured for three hours then decided to try our luck at the Asia market, and voila, there we finally found three quite meagre exemplars. Come May there will hopefully be more of it, because kimchi is expensive here, I paid 10 Euro for half a kilo, and the amounts that wander in my daughter´s stomach do not bode well for my wallet. Theokbokki was good but not the way it was supposed to be, because one bag of rice cakes had miraculously deserted the fridge, so I had to put all of the fish cakes into the spicy sauce- makes spicy fish cakes instead of rice cakes. I don´t care, I love fish cakes!
Mail sent by Austrian post is a fickle thing. An old friend from Vorarlberg sent us gastronomic Easter specialities. The package contained mostly sausages and meat, blessedly cured, because it was supposed to arrive by no later than Monday but came in today only. No harm was done, but this was not the first time that packages sent from in-country take twice as long as those coming from Germany. Must be the mountains in between...
We had way too warm weather these last days, today it was a hot 24, but on Friday there will be rain again, and Saturday might bring us some snow flakes. Fortunately the palm trees which hubby has dragged into the garden aren´t delicate, as long as temperatures won´t go below minus four they will survive, which is good because husband mine most certainly won´t haul them back into the conservatory! Besides, I have to tidy the conservatory for Easter! Hopefully hubby will hunt down those big bad spiders which always find a way into this room before I walk in with the broom!



As pretty as this pic is, why do half of those on my Whatsapp list send it to me- in the space of two hours at that! That´s insane!

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Yesterday we did a first batch of Kimchi. Do you know how hard it is to get Chinese cabbage in March? We toured for three hours then decided to try our luck at the Asia market, and voila, there we finally found three quite meagre exemplars. Come May there will hopefully be more of it, because kimchi is expensive here, I paid 10 Euro for half a kilo, and the amounts that wander in my daughter´s stomach do not bode well for my wallet. Theokbokki was good but not the way it was supposed to be, because one bag of rice cakes had miraculously deserted the fridge, so I had to put all of the fish cakes into the spicy sauce- makes spicy fish cakes instead of rice cakes. I don´t care, I love fish cakes!
Mail sent by Austrian post is a fickle thing. An old friend from Vorarlberg sent us gastronomic Easter specialities. The package contained mostly sausages and meat, blessedly cured, because it was supposed to arrive by no later than Monday but came in today only. No harm was done, but this was not the first time that packages sent from in-country take twice as long as those coming from Germany. Must be the mountains in between...
We had way too warm weather these last days, today it was a hot 24, but on Friday there will be rain again, and Saturday might bring us some snow flakes. Fortunately the palm trees which hubby has dragged into the garden aren´t delicate, as long as temperatures won´t go below minus four they will survive, which is good because husband mine most certainly won´t haul them back into the conservatory! Besides, I have to tidy the conservatory for Easter! Hopefully hubby will hunt down those big bad spiders which always find a way into this room before I walk in with the broom!



As pretty as this pic is, why do half of those on my Whatsapp list send it to me- in the space of two hours at that! That´s insane!