Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Tuesday Night Dinner...

...so the jet lag has worn off.  In a way it is very nice to get up at five with at least an hour of free time.  Maybe I should make it my goal to get up earlier in the day...

Now back to the topic. Tuesday Night Dinner was - to the delight of both my girlies - leftover Linsen & Spaetzle, with mixed greens, and baked spaghetti squash.  Mia Rose has turned into a huge Spaetzle lover, and we already know about Alena and her affinity for lentils :).  It was an all around dinner success with both girls having seconds, and thirds.  Now, the leftovers are completely gone...
Linsen, Spaetzle, mixed greens, and spaghetti squash

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Halloween...

...really snuck up on us this year.  In previous years I have always decorated the house, and wrote the "trick or treating" post early.  Well, not this year - as you can see. The pumpkin was carved on Sunday night and that was our decoration. The costumes for the girls were not elaborate either, as they are not allowed to wear costumes to school.  They did however have an after school parade.  Mia Rose dressed up as a "Princess Vampire", and Alena as a "Fairy Vampire" - they came up with it all by themselves.  Sparkles, lipgloss, wings for the fairy, and a princess dress for the Princess :)


We went "Trick or Treating" after dinner - but already had a couple of "trick or treaters" ring our doorbell while eating.  The girls were so excited to hand out candy.  -  Before hand, they both inspected the treats.  I had gotten - as every year - the "Galactosemia Safe" candy.  Which includes Sunburst, Nerds, etc. and then I also found safe chocolate treats.  Whoo-hoo!!!  

We set off once it was dark, and the girls loved it.  At the first couple of houses, the girls asked whether they could have dairy free treats...but we explained to the ladies, that we can exchange "unsafe" candy for "safe" candy once we are back at home.  With that change in mind, they selected the treats for their bags by packaging.  Lot's and lot's of chocolate this year, but also lot's of Skittles, Sweet Tarts, temporary Tattoo's and other safe treats.  At home,  we unloaded the heavy bags and Alena divided her candy by safe and unsafe treats.  Ron helped Mia Rose divide her candy up.  Alena asked however "why do people mainly give candy? The tattoo's are so much better...."  Well, who knew! The ladies had a very successful night procuring candy :)  - and because since there is still so much "safe" candy left, there was no need to  exchange.  There will be plenty so, if they run out...
Alena sorting through her candy

I hope you also all had a fund and safe Fright Night :)

Mia Rose with her loot :)

Monday Night Dinner...

...it's chilly,  and we had to warm up before going Trick or Treating.  Dinner was one of Alena's favorite meal. "Linsen mit Spaetzle" a.k.a.lentil's with homemade Spaetzle, salad, and Wieners.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Sunday...it's the day before Halloween...

...another relaxing family day. Crescent rolls, and cereal for an early breakfast; lot's of reading, music, and games; long late morning baths for each lady; folowed by lunch at Foster Burger. Since our return from Europe we have not had any burgers so today was the ay :). By my book it's the best burger in town. We ordered the mini burgers for the girls - fabulous!!! One word of caution - none of the buns are safe, but there is a fantastic vietnamese aery right next door. Their baguette is "safe" and also available in a small, sandwich size. So we got the bread before we went to Foster Burger. We explained that the girls have a metabolic dsorder, and they served their burgers on the safe bread! Now that is also fantastic service, right?!
Here is the link www.fosterburger.com.

Now what about Halloween?! Later we gutted - don't the girlies look scary?! - and carved our one pumpkin...we are ready for Halloween. More about that tomorrow :))) Oh, and et me know if you would like to see a picture of the girls fantastic burger...

Alena and the Saturday Taco's :)

Alena is so happy to have a refried black bean, guacamole, and "sour cream" (Tofutti) taco...

Saturday..

...lazy, lazy day - restful and calm. The girls actually started German Saturday School at the http://sophieschollschule.org/ yesterday. Both girls liked it a lot and had fun. - Before we made the drive out to the school we stopped at Kettelman's for bagels.

By the time we got home in the early afternoon all of us was hungy. A perfect day for Taco's. Yum! Homemde Gacamole, refried black beans, beef, Tofutti sour cream, and plenty of shells. A lazy meal, for a blissfully, lazy rest of the day. The girlies, and the mothership got to enjoy the rare TV day, while Ron happily played his guitar...it is nice to be back home!!!

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Friday & Friday Dinner...

...fall is here and it started to rain yesterday. Hopefully it will not rain on Monday for Trick or Treating. Talking about Halloween, you know what happened yesterday? We got up let the cats out and then I saw it. Three of our four pumpkins on the front porch were missing! Yup, stolen the two pumpkins the girls picked out on the pumpkin patch last weekend and also mine. Who does something like that?! It is not funny and certainly was not the best start into the day....

The rest of the day turned out fine. Girls in school, both parental units at work, and for dinner we went out -> Friday night fun :) We decided to go to Apizza Scholls on Hawthorne. It is the best pizza in Portland. However to get a table for the first seating you have to get in line by 4:30 for the 5 PM opening. That is what the girlies and I did. Equipped with our umbrellas we waited for 20 minutes in the pouring rain. Does it sound crazy? Well, to me it is so Portland, and crazy at the same time. Oh, and let me assure you we were not the first - nor the last people in line. There were five people -for five tables- ahead of us and the line quickly got longer. For pizza you ask? Yes, pizza - it is the most amazing, delicious, fantastic pizza around and the salad is just as amazing. So worth it for the occasional treat. We ordered 1/2 sausage no cheese, and the other 1/2 sausage, peppers & cheese. Delicious - can you see how excited the girls are? Btw - the right side is without cheese and no, there were no leftovers....

Here is the link to Apizza Scholls http://apizzascholls.com/

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Thursday Night Dinner...

...pasta with "creamy" wild mushrooms and the ever present salad. Quite delicious! Shitake, Maitake, Chanatrelles, and Crimini along with some homegrown rosemary made this the perfect Thursday Night dinner.

Besides that our Thursday was - as I like it - uneventful and I am actually up past 7 p.m. whoo-hoo...

Wednedsday Dinner...

...you will not believe it. Well, maybe but this is a very rare occurrence :) We had leftover "Faulenzer Krautwickel" for dinner. I actually think it is better the second day around...I served it with roasted potatoes & apples (the combination is so good), and the ever present mixed salad...

As for the rest of our Wednesday? Blissfully uneventful - school for girls, work for the parental units, and both girlies had piano lesson after school. Yes, they are still readjusting but we are almost there. Well, at least the girls :)

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