From the monthly archives:

December 2008

Weekly Winners – 28 December 2008

December 28, 2008

December 21 – December 27, 2008 It’s the last Weekly Winners of 2008! We had a busy holiday week with a lot of traveling. On the way to see Oma and Opa, we stopped at Bad Dürkheim And just happened to drive through the town of Frankenstein Where we saw the ruins of Frankenstein’s castle [...]

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Weekly Winners – 21 December 2008

December 21, 2008

December 14 – December 21, 2008 I’ve been baking up a storm this week and with chasing around a quickly recovering toddler, that hasn’t left me much time for photos, but here’s a couple I took in between cookie batches. All of the recipes except for the sugar cookies were from or inspired by recipes [...]

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Baking soda gets big, well, bigger

December 20, 2008

I’m busy making Christmas cookies today, but wanted to drop all you expats in Germany a quick note.  Yesterday while shopping for ingredients at Laaber’s very small Edeka supermarket, I noticed 250g bags of Natron (baking soda) for sale in the spice section.  Sure, it’s about the size of the small Arm & Hammer boxes, [...]

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Hot Travel deals from Travelzoo.de

December 19, 2008

Travelzoo.de has some really good deals if you live near Munich, Stuttgart or Nuremburg and want to travel to Dubai, Miami, San Francisco, Johannesberg, Mexico City, or Martinique.  You need to book by Monday, December 22 for travel between the 1st of Janury and 31 of March. MÜNCHEN/STUTTGART/NÜRNBERG — 19. Dezember 2008 — Air France [...]

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How to eat American restaurant food without leaving home

December 16, 2008

I blogged about this topic briefly in passing, but now I think it’s deserves it’s own post.  A while back, I got the book Top Secret Restaurant Recipes: Creating Kitchen Clones from America’s Favorite Restaurant Chains by Todd Wilbur (also available at Amazon.de) and it’s follow-up Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2.  It’s been nine months [...]

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Weekly Winners – 14 December 2008

December 14, 2008

December 7 – December 13, 2008 This was a busy week with lots going on. We visited three Weihnachtsmärkte (Christmas Markets) in Regensburg, showed around some friends from Munich, and Oliver had an operation. He’s recovering well. He’s frustrated that he can’t get up and move around, but he’s in generally good spirits. Schloss Thurn [...]

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Nervous wreck mom

December 11, 2008

I am a little nutty right now.  Oliver is having an operation tomorrow and no matter how routine a procedure it is, I think any parent in this kind of situation is stressed.  Sure it’s routine, but any time such a little guy is put under general anesthesia, it’s a big deal in my book. [...]

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