Andreas Matern

Chicken Stock

I love making chicken stock after we roast a bird. We keep a bag in the freezer with bits of onion, celery, carrots, chicken bits from other meals …. Today I think I‘m using much too much onion, especially red onion that I had salvaged from a cookbook club where I made onion soup. Let‘s see how this one goes!

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love this article in the Atlantic …. Thinking about how we all want housing to be affordable, yet we assume we will make tons of $ because of our investment in a home. Great read.


My dog is 6 today! That‘s hard to believe, she has bursts of energy like a little puppy!


As a Pearl Jam fan … I’m so excited about the new album and the new tour! But first, and exciting weekend with my son at PAX East - I am very gratefull!


The Dropkick Murphys preaching! 


Four Years Ago Today

_March 11, 2020 Four years ago today, society began to shut down. Shortly after noon Eastern on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared Covid — or “the coronavirus,” then the more popular term — to be a global pandemic. Stocks plummeted in the afternoon. In the span of a single hour that night, President Donald Trump delivered an Oval Office address about Covid, Tom Hanks posted on Instagram that he had the virus and the N.

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Two Boston Things

1) If you want to play a zombie in Walking Dead, here’s your chance! 

2) The 10 Best Burgers in MA …. With #1 being Lewis’ in Norwood?  That’s a bit insane imho.



When your dining room table looks like this you had a good day.


Rabbit rabbit