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December 28, 2008 - January 3, 2009
This week I made a super delicious Cheesy Beer Dip to bring to a neighbor’s holiday party. It was extremely well-received and my husband deemed it Germanized fondue.
Bellybutton!
Self-portrait
Watching the fireworks on New Years Eve
Fireworks
My little handyman
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It’s like fondue, only German, and it’s addictive.
ingredients
1 round loaf of bread (wheat or rye)
2 cups Hefeweizen
2 T cornstarch
2 T water
4 cups Gouda, chopped into smallish pieces or grated
2 ounces cream cheese
2 ounces blue cheese (I suggest Bavarian Blu)
1 tsp Dijon mustard
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
directions
Hollow out the loaf of bread, leaving a 1 inch border all around, […]
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As of today, I have now lived 6 years in Germany. It wasn’t all good times, I had plenty of homesickness and cultural adjustment to experience. I spent plenty of nights crying and plenty of mornings not wanting to get out of bed, but I always kept going. First, I told myself […]
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On Monday night, we had our sixth and final birth preparation class at the hospital. I really, really wanted to skip the class. I was tired and I’d decided that it wasn’t really giving me anything, but I felt bad since it’s covered by insurance and what if this was the one time that the […]
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Finding product replacements for your favorite foods and snacks is always tough for new expats (and occasionally some of us more experienced expats as well)! Here’s my attempt to help out and I have to admit, I learned quite a bit in my research for this post. As new ideas/suggestions come up, I will […]
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Sunday afternoon was spent in the beautiful Altmühltal Nature Park area, with its scenic white cliffs and abundant canoers. Boat tours are available between Kelheim and Weltenburg, but we unfortunately found out about this too late.
The Donaudurchbruch (Danube gorge) near Weltenburg
Baroque church of the Benedictine Abbey Weltenburg
The Abbey brewery, claiming to be the oldest continuously operating brewery in […]
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Regensburg is a perfectly lovely city with its intact, medieval, UNESCO World Heritage site, old town, but visiting a town and admiring its offerings is very different from actually moving there and starting a new life. I’ve been quite homesick for the Berlin-Potsdam area for the last six months (perhaps you’ve picked up on this).
Maybe this […]
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Christina Geyer has lived in Germany since May 2002. She has lived in Berlin, Rostock, Potsdam, and has now settled pretty much permanently in the Regensburg area. In addition to blogging on AmiExpat.com, she founded the parenting site Mamas Worldwide. For more, see About Christina.
