Expats might love the food in their host country but sometimes there’s just no substituting a flavour from home. Last week I posted about one of the foods I can’t get in the UK that I ask visitors from the States to bring. Most things that I miss from home I can either buy online [...]

My cousins have been here this week. The cousins brought some snacks from home to have handy for their travels. Yesterday they moved on to their next destination and left behind a few snacks to lighten the load. One of those snacks were these little orange coloured, fish shaped crackers. They kept calling them Goldfish [...]

It sounds like a waste of time, right? Why bake the potatoes twice when once has always worked so well? American comfort food I’m not sure when or why this was developed, but I do remember I started seeing them in the States in the ’80′s and I loved them. They are a really basic [...]

I have a cute story to tell you. My kids may all be teenagers, but there’s still one or two ‘awwwww!’ stories I can pull out of my bag (even if, in this case, it isn’t about my own child). And because this story has been retold several times before it reached me, I may [...]

This post is for anyone who ever erroneously believed I am a perfect homemaker. Another title for this could be ‘A cautionary tale about making pumpkin pie while distracted.’ Caught up in the spirit of Thanksgiving but knowing I wouldn’t be hosting a dinner this year, I decided to make a pumpkin pie on Monday [...]

Cornbread is one of those things that takes a minor paradigm shift in order to enjoy if you haven’t grown up with it. It can appear in many forms–a loaf, a cake pan, muffin cases, there’s even cast iron pans with recesses shaped like ears of corn for making it. But whatever shape it takes, [...]

Well it’s the Fourth of July, I had to use ‘smores today! In Britain this day is known as the American’s Independence Day. I get asked, ‘do you celebrate Independence Day even though you’re in Britain?’ When I first moved here this was briefly confusing. ‘Oh, you men The Fourth of July!’ Which is weird [...]