Category: Food

• Proof that my Mother is Always Right

  We don’t have a television here.  That is something that boggles the mind of several family members and is something my children have put on a list to give to CPS when we’re finally investigated.  However, we have a computer and internet and access to YouTube.  Via YouTube I have been introduced to a number…

  Mindy Carlson

  June 2, 2015

  Food

  GBBO, Jane Brocket, Mary Berry, My mother is always right, The Great British Bake Off, Victoria Sandwich Cake, Victoria Sandwich Cupcakes, Vintage Cakes, whipped cream and jam, Yarn Storm

• Sweet Bretzels: The cookie that almost beat me

  By now all of you know how much I love to bake. It’s calming and therapeutic for me to cream together butter and sugar with eggs and then mix in flour to form any number of cookies or cakes. I get it from my mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. My DNA isn’t pairs of ATGC like…

  Mindy Carlson

  May 24, 2015

  Food, Homemaking

  Alsace, Alsatian, baking, Bretzel, cinnamon and sugar cookies, English Biscuits, Sweet Bretzel, sweet bretzel recipe, tea biscuits, The Great British Bake Off, The Swiss Family Carlson

• SFC Parents and A Restaurant Batman Would Love

  (or Bruce Wayne would own…. I haven’t quite figured it out yet.) We don’t just “go out” to eat here very often.  Usually we only eat out while we are traveling or we treat ourselves at the BIS’s Sports Club, a country club kind of place that the BIS owns for its employees.  However, we…

  Mindy Carlson

  May 4, 2015

  Food, The Swiss Family Carlson

  Basel, Basel restaurants, Blind Cow, Blindekuh, dark restaurant, eating in the dark, restaurant in the dark, Swiss Family Carlson, Switzerland, The Swiss Family Carlson