Cooking & Baking

Garnished with a few shrimp. On the side, a chopped cucumber salad. At least, that's what we “leftovers” had.

Our daughters and their men left for an all night trip with 50 of their friends on a chartered 737-300 headed for Male, with refueling stops in Tbilisi, Georgia, and then again somewhere in India. I don’t know what kind of food they ordered for the flight(s), but I doubt it consisted of pretzels and mini bags of potato chips. Our younger daughter and her S.O. are celebrating his 50th birthday this weekend “in style,” and it’s something they have learned how to do. My wife and I are acting as baby-sitters for the four grandchildren here in the Taunus hills (Königstein, to be exact), each one of which is a handful on their own. My daughter has a Polish nanny who comes over, but she won’t be here over the weekend. If we’ve been institutionalized by Monday, you’ll know why.