Abe’s Thanksgiving

Abe says
Trite as it may be I am pretty sure that if we didn’t write about Thanksgiving we should both be fired and you should all demand your money back.
Thanksgiving with my parents on the east coast involved all the standard trappings. Somehow this year I managed to convince my dad to let me do [...]

Happy Birthday Latvia

Ann says
OK so it’s a little late. November 18th is Latvian Independence day, so to speak. It was the first independence day, the one before the Soviet occupation, and it’s the one Latvia celebrates due to the illegal and therefore illegitimate nature of the Soviet occupation. History aside, I hadn’t made any Latvian food in [...]

Beef Barley Soup

Abe says
There comes a time in one’s life, or at least over the course of the seasons, yearly, that nothing else will do except a bowl of hearty, satisfying soup. Technically these soups are wintry, like the wintry mixes that will occasionally plague regional transit back east, but these days this time comes in the [...]