mccALL Around the World

• Dear Aila, 7 years ago It's September 1st, 2017, you're exactly 20 weeks and 1 day old and we're currently 30,000 ft above ground on a transatlantic flight to our new home in Istanbul, Turkey. In your short 20 week life thus far, you've been all over the map. I figured it was only right you baked this way to prepare you...
• My Refugee Story 7 years ago Today I wish to share with you a chapter from the book I'm writing about my time overseas. As the granddaughter of an Irish immigrant who came to America to find work at the age of 17, and the wife of a man who left his home in Lithuania at the same age, to move to a foreign country to pursue his...
• Not So Basic: Kale Salad With Blackened Salmon 7 years ago With each new year and new city overseas, the ultimate question always remains: which of my normal American groceries will I not be able to find? In Turkey, there were several, while in Italy and Lithuania I could find almost anything. However, grocery shopping in Spain has been beyond my wildest...
• A Harry Potter Pilgrimage in Porto, Portugal 7 years ago Portugal has long been on my list of places to visit, so I was pretty stoked to see we would be in driving distance this season. D had a bye-week last month so we decided to finally make the trip. A few days before leaving, he dropped the ultimate bomb on me. "You know there's some sort of...
• The Easiest Dinner You're Not Making: Baked Whole Fish! 8 years ago I was reluctant to start sharing recipes on my blog, for two main reasons. The first being that I'm absolutely awful at giving recipes. Every time someone asks me how I make something, I cringe. I can be extremely ADD in the kitchen, throwing things together and having no idea how it happened in...

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