Posts Tagged ‘Food’

Clams in white wine sauce

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

We’re suffering here: cheese is expensive and bad… but, to make it up fish and shell fish is (relatively) cheap!  So last night we splashed out and got a bottle of wine ($14), 1kg of clams ($13), a really good french bread ($2.75) and made ourselves a fantastic dinner: Fry a small onion and garlic [...]

Konsumieren auf Kanadisch

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Unseren ersteren Einkaufversuch starten wir bei Saveway in der Annahme, dass eine derart große Warenhauskette preislich irgenwo in der Mitte liegt. Irgendwo ja, in der Mitte keinesfalls! Aber nach 4 Tagen haben wirs verstanden: Hier herrscht witzigerweise noch das Tante Emma Prinzip: Gemüse gibt’s günstig beim Gemüsehändler, Brot in der Bäckerei, Kosmetikartikel in der Drogerie… [...]

The first days – in English!

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

For those of you who don’t speak the German Lingo, I’ll write a short post to repeat, and maybe suppliment Chrissi’s fantastic posts. First off – we’ve arrived!  We had no trouble with the airline (even though we had a total of 156kg of luggage with us!), nor with immigration, nor with customs (we had [...]