Biscotti

I am making fig and walnut biscotti! from this recipe by deb over at smitten kitchen. again. i am in love with her. for five days over new year I had five teenage girls staying in my teeny flat. three from poland and two from croatia. they were here for the taize conference. they were…

happy three kings day!

I woke up yesterday to a good few inches of snow. It is beautifully distracting. And very very cold. After a week of wearing an inappropriately small amount of clothes for the season I am taking my mothers advice and wearing a ridiculous amount of layers. I may look like the michelin man every time…

I live here

Ice on the lake at Parc Leopold. And the typical Brussels skyline – cranes towering over huge construction sites. p.s. I live here!

hello 2009…

Photo credit: Nino Ostojic – photographer, thinker, techno-dancer, theologian, chef, wise-man, monk, friend…

Christmas Eve Rolls

For the last few years it has been a “tradition” for me to make these dinner rolls on Christmas Eve. The recipe comes via my American aunt Barb (the fact that she is American is not important to this recipe, but I have two aunt Barbaras so it’s important to distinguish) and she insists that…

distracted

the sun came out today after a week of fog and freezing rain and it is distracting me i keep finding myself gazing out the window instead of answering those last few emails before my holiday begins and i leave this office and the johnny cash music on the stereo head home to rush packing…