If given a last meal request, most people would request steak, fried food and creamy desserts. But not this crazy Italian. She’d request Bitter Italian Vegetables sauté. It’s a flavorful dish, easy to make and versatile. You can use it as a main meal adding sausage, as I did above, or toss it with penne pasta. [...]
This cooking thing is new to me. In my pre-Swiss life, I had a career and a two or three big hobbies that kept me too busy to try to do more than a few pastas, sautés, rice dishes, easy soups and salads. I’ve been trying for about a year to get my beef braising right. [...]
Pork Chops Porcini. I don’t know how I made it to this age (eleventy-seven) and being Italian, having never cooked with porcini mushrooms. I’ve eaten them in restaurants but never attempted cooking with them. Until I opened the book: Essentials of Italian Cooking. The Pork Chop above is complex in flavor and in preparation–well, at least for me–so I [...]
Mr. Wild Dingo is home. Loki is ecstatic to have his ultimate tug partner back. Juno’s thrilled to have the object of her disdain back. Nothing like a few husky huffs of disapproval to score some bites of French bread. The photo below was taken a few weeks ago on one of the docks in Morges. [...]
Herding Horses is Hard Work!
Juno’s home from the MRI. “Hey, it was nothin’ Big Boy, why are you so worried?” “Well, I was worried that they shaved your jodhpurs, but I see that they are intact, thank dog!”
A friend from the states recently noted that Loki gained a little weight. “He filled out since I last saw him,” he said when he first saw Loki this month. He last saw Loki in August, just 6 months ago. Oops. “Big Boy, you give new meaning to your nick name! But you’re not Sibe enough to [...]
As long time readers know, this fall, I introduced the cracker and the criminal to farm animals. The Swiss love to move their animals around to different locations for grazing so it’s always a surprise to come across a herd of goats and donkeys or bulls in a place that’s always been empty. “Princess, LOOK [...]
I’m not much of a holiday person. In fact, it wouldn’t be a stretch to call me Scrooge or Grinch on the holidays. I roll my eyes every time I see ridiculously overly decorated homes. I don’t put up a tree, but I’ll decorate the house a bit with lights, holiday colors and candles. Rather [...]
Oddly with a title like that, this post is not about Juno! It’s about Loki. Mr. Wild Dingo often comments that I portray Loki as dumb. Then I remind him that it was he who nicknamed him Retardo Montalban. And as much as I’d love to use that name on this blog, I know it [...]
Since we moved to Switzerland, pack dynamics have changed a bit. Juno’s hips have gotten a bit worse and she isn’t as likely to play rough with Loki anymore. I’m sure it bums out Loki not to have a really rough tumble anymore. Still, he’s bit of an idiot bully with her and tends to push her [...]
“WTF? Something is seriously wrong here.”
