From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Blogging Hiatus

November 24, 2009

I wasn’t able to complete this week’s Real German Cuisine Challenge, Mussel Salad, so I owe you guys that post sometime in the future.  Unfortunately, it probably won’t be in the near future.  I have to cancel the Challenge for the rest of this year at least, so also no Stollen making, but the recipe [...]

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Real German Cuisine Challenge: Zwiebelmarktkuchen (Weimar Onion Festival Cake)

November 16, 2009

This week’s recipe Zwiebelmarktkuchen (Onion Festival Cake) is a specialty from Weimar in the German state of Thüringen.  The Weimar Onion Festival, or Zweibelmarkt, takes place in October and has been going on for 365 years.  This dish is a specialty of the festival. The dish reminded me somewhat of Flammkuchen, except with more onions and a [...]

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Down for the count

November 6, 2009

That’s what I’ve been for the past week. The worst cold ever became bronchitis, and now that I’m on antibiotics, I think there was just a touch of sinus infection in there too. I finish antibiotics tomorrow evening and will hopefully make a speedy full recovery back to health, because this is now three weeks [...]

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Real German Cuisine Challenge: Märkischer Rindfleischtopf (Mark Brandenburg Beef Stew)

November 2, 2009

This week’s recipe challenge was Märkischer Rindfleischtopf (Mark Brandenburg Beef Stew).  The Mark Brandenburg is the area including and surrounding the city of Berlin.  I wasn’t too impressed with the local cuisine when we lived in Berlin and in Potsdam, but the recipes from this book for that region have been pretty good. This is the first [...]

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