long weekend.

Posted on April 25, 2011 by sarahgoodreau

it was a long weekend in these parts. and a weekend that i didn’t take too many pictures. but there was a lot of picnic-ing and dog walking and general relaxing. ate some interesting meats like ostrich (amazing!) and lamb. and drank some pear genever and pink wine.

here are a few things i did take pictures of.

we rode the giant ferris wheel in dam square. and while i was absolutely terrified (afraid of heights aparently?) it made for some goooood picture takin’.

it’s baby bird season! i spent to much time squeaking at the tiny duck and feeding them spice cake.

we found the most generic beer in existence.

fred and i took some old man and old lady style tips and now we have sunglass chains and clip on flip ups.

the battleship potemkin was happy.

i made this. more on this later. ( it’s an old dutch thing / game )

and i replanted my succulent babies. note the re-purposed generic beer can. stay classy.

infuse.

Posted on April 19, 2011 by sarahgoodreau

i keep a lot of glass bottles. and glass jars. and glass anything. i fill them up with just about anything. so. all this open window weather put me in the mood for some infusing. a perfect jar filling activity.

first i chopped up a bunch of cucumbers, put them in a tall jar and added water. instant cucumber water.

then i went out and got some vodka to get serious. infusing vodka is the easiest. all you need is cheap vodka. a knife. some jars. and some fruits or herbs.

it’s good to have an assistant.

chop that shit up. put it in a jar. and fill it with vodka.

i made a ginger, a lemon, a cucumber, and a kiwi vodka. though i recommend mixing flavors too. my favorite i have ever made is ginger pomegranate.

leave them infusing for at least 3 days. do more if you want a stronger flavor.

but! trust me on this. unless you want to poison people don’t leave a hot pepper infusing for more than three days. at the most. i once left a scotch bonnet pepper in vodka for 3 days. i thought i was going to die when i tried it. so spicy. too spicy. and i like spicy.

once they are ready strain out the fruit and have some fun.

keukenhof flowers.

Posted on April 15, 2011 by sarahgoodreau

my parents came into town this past week, which is the reason for my radio silence. we went over to keukenhof on a sunny day to check out the tulips. basically this place is a giant park/tulip farm where you can wander around and look at thousands and thousands of flowers. then take a wine pit-stop, and then look at more flowers. you have to like flowers in order to do this. it was very beautiful and the air smelled like…. flowers. if you are ever in holland in the spring. i recommend a tulip farm.

i won’t over whelm you with gobs of flower photographs. but here are a few.

now the fields of tulips.

and of course. a herring and pink wine picnic.

(i just love mini bottles of wine. i want to stock my whole refrigerator up with them.)

the decemberists.

Posted on March 23, 2011 by sarahgoodreau

fred took some great photos at the decemberists concert we went to last week.

the show was great, it was in an old church on a canal and we ran in fast to get a seat in the balcony right above the stage. we drank red wine out of the glass jars in my pockets and sang along. the decemberists are super good live. super good.

see more pictures on freds flickr.

a few things.

Posted on March 10, 2011 by sarahgoodreau

this past week was beautiful. open window weather!

we took a walk around the city

found a homeless computer

and drank some pre canned cocktails

amsterdam is pretty fun

Posted on February 13, 2011 by sarahgoodreau

a new year (a month and a half ago), a new blog. one of my goals for the grand year of 2011 was to improve my blogging and branding. so i came here for more control. i’m working on a schedule to stick to and trying to move all my previous posts from tumblr to this place. so bare with me and by the end of this month i should have it figured out and maybe even make this page a little more pleasant to look at.