In 1939, Nicholas Winton used a two-week vacation to go to Prague and ended up saving the lives of 669 children. I’ll let that sink in for a minute and then explain. He was a stock-broker — a regular guy — from London who was concerned about the Jewish people in Czechoslovakia due to the impending invasion […]
Homemade-fake Maple Syrup
I’m running a guesthouse (for adopting families) and I like to cook. This translates into pancakes and bacon a lot of mornings, which means I bring out the big guns: my jar of homemade syrup. It doesn’t take too many bites of syrup-laden pancake before someone finally asks, “so you really make your own maple […]
Site goals
My husband loves to say that you have to be a little bit crazy to sell your stuff and move to another country, and if you’re doing it because God told you to, then you’re definitely a bit off your rocker. We don’t mind being placed in that category. And we absolutely love the other […]
Super-fantabulous quick rise rolls
Every single time I make these rolls, someone asks for the recipe. So I figured I’d post it here to share it with you all at once. Thanks to my friend Laura for sharing it with me shortly after we moved to Nicaragua (when I was lamenting my loss of frozen bread dough, refrigerated bread […]