22 Juli - German home cooking

I was kind of slacking on my daily blog entries, so I took a break from reading journal articles about diabetes and updated through the week. Wasn't a very exciting week, but I am trying to make at least some kind of entry for each day. Maybe Skylar and I will read it over someday or use it for some sort of scrap booking thing... not that I'm into that, but just this once :)

Tonight Nora and I made some traditional German food for dinner. Well, actually she made it... I just watched. She made knödle and rotkohl, which is basically mashed potato balls and red cabbage with a butter and onion sauce. It was good, but again there is that problem that German food is typically flavored with meat, so without it, it is kind of bland. Those knödle things are super filling though. Skylar didn't really like it, but I think he was just in a bit of a cranky mood because I know what he likes and there wasn't really anything not to like about this.

We went to the store to get the ingredients and I brought our plastic water bottles to return to the recycling place. I can't get the stigma out of my head of feeling like a homeless person riding my bike with a basket full of empty bottles to return, but I would feel guiltier if I just threw them away because of pride. The place just confuses me anyway... I never know if I am supposed to give them the bottles to count or if I am supposed to sort them.

Also found out that Skylar has camp from August 17th through the 29th, which is throwing a wrench into our Venice plans because Ryanair only has the special for the week of the 18th. I emailed the camp to see if I can switch his session, otherwise we'll have to figure out a new plan.