Pickle Deli Square

Feb 19

Feb 19 Savory Bread Pudding

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Home Cooking

As a result of my macaron-making, I had 18 egg yolks stored in the fridge...

Feb 6

Feb 6 Daikon Calzone and Momofuku Lemongrass Pork Sausage

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Home Cooking

I just got the Momofuku cookbook as a present from my sister, and decided to try out the grilled lemongrass pork sausage to go with the bread I've been making in the Lodge Logic Dutch Oven...

Feb 2

Feb 2 Braun Food Processor

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Home Cooking

My New Year's present to myself this year was a Braun immersion blender / food processor set...

Feb 2

Feb 2 Dutch Oven

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Home Cooking

Not surprisingly, Dutch people don't refer to Dutch Ovens as Dutch Ovens...

Jan 29

Jan 29 Sign Language: SOS box

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Design

Here's an call box in the Rotterdam metro station...

Jan 29

Jan 29 Boijmans Coat Rack

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Design

I took a short little excursion to Rotterdam a couple weekends ago, and I visited the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen...

Jan 29

Jan 29 Macaron Flavors

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Home Cooking

Once I got the hang of the timing and temperament of macaron-making, I started to have fun making up new flavors...

Jan 29

After my last post about making macarons, I made 5 more batches so 8 batches of macaroons in total. And each batch of batter meant 3 trips each to the toaster oven due to size. So, I've learned quite a lot about making macarons. Here are some tips...

Jan 27

Jan 27 Big Week for Product Announcements

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Design

Amidst all of the news of the iPad introduction, the product announcement that really took my breath away was Air New Zealand's announcement of their new long haul product...

Jan 17

Jan 17 I Have Feet!

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Home Cooking

For a design project, I've started to make macarons...

Jan 17

Jan 17 Lufthansa Design

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Design

Around Frankfurt Airport, there are signs promising a bunch of improvements you can expect with their current renovation and expansion. Among the bullet points are more space, more gates... and "Lufthansa design."

Jan 17

Jan 17 Sign Language: FRA airport

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Sign Language

A look at various wayfinding signs at Frankfurt airport...

Jan 6

Jan 6 Changes Afoot at United

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Travel

For a while it was a bit sad being a loyal customer of United...

Jan 6

Jan 6 Trip Report: SAN-ORD-FRA-AMS part III

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Trip Report

Final air leg from San Diego to Amsterdam: lounges in Frankfurt and a short hop on Lufthansa to Amsterdam...

Jan 6

Jan 6 Trip Report: SAN-ORD-FRA-AMS part II

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Trip Report

Continuing on from Chicago to Frankfurt in United Airlines's Boeing 777s with the old recliner seats...

Jan 6

Jan 6 Trip Report: SAN-ORD-FRA-AMS part I

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Trip Report

Flying from San Diego to Chicago on United Airlines...

Jan 6

Jan 6 Didn't get the memo?

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Netherlands

Advertising after a scandal...

Jan 6

Jan 6 Gratuitous pictures of San Diego

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Travel

Ahh, beautiful San Diego.

Jan 6

Jan 6 "Fancy" Restaurants: San Diego

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Food

Casual restaurants like the eateries on Convoy or Souplantation are my favorite places to go in San Diego, but this trip afforded the opportunity to try out a couple fancy pants restaurants...

Jan 5

Jan 5 San Diego To Do List

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Expat Living

After living in the Netherlands for a few months, besides Mexican food, I had pent up demand for several other things...