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Weekly Winners – 4 January 2009

January 4, 2009

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 For more Weekly Winners visit SarcasticMom.com.

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Cheesy Beer Dip

January 4, 2009

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 [...]

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Video Wednesday: Maibaumaufstellung (Raising the Maypole)

May 14, 2008

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 that I couldn’t [...]

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Geburtsvorbereitung, Teil 6

July 11, 2007

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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American food and cooking substitutes

May 31, 2007

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. Baking Baking Powder – Most North American baking [...]

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Weltenburg

May 22, 2007

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 [...]

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Maybe Regensburg is not that bad

May 9, 2007

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). [...]

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