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Real German Cuisine Challenge: Beeren-Kaltschale (Cold Berry Bowl)

July 13, 2009

This week’s recipe was Beeren-Kaltschale (Cold berry bowl), a cold berry soup for hot summer days.  Unfortunately, here in Bavaria, we haven’t had the weather to go with this dish.  We were wearing jackets in town for the jazz festival yesterday.  The weather report said today would be warm and sunny, but we ended up eating [...]

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Real German Cuisine Challenge: Bickbeerpfannkuchen (Bilberry pancakes)

June 29, 2009

Bickbeerpfannkuchen are pancakes made with bilberries, known in Germany as Bickbeeren or Heidelbeeren, also known as blueberries.  Last week while buying mushrooms at the mushroom stand in Neupfarrplatz, I saw they were selling wild forest-grown Heidelbeeren.  We grabbed a container and made these that day. Wild heidelbeeren are much smaller than regular blueberries, I didn’t notice [...]

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Real German Cuisine Challenge: Rote Grütze (Red Fruit Jelly)

June 22, 2009

This week’s recipe was Rote Grütze.  I had trouble figuring out how to translate this, the closest I could come up with was red fruit jelly, but I’m sure there’s a better way to describe it.  And it seems I have bad timing.  This recipe requires sour cherries, red currants (rote Johannisbeeren) and raspberries.  When [...]

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Real German Cuisine Challenge: Strawberry Bowle

May 11, 2009

This week’s challenge was an Erdbeer-Bowle (Strawberry punch), combining a bottle of Mosel wine, some strawberries, and some sparkling wine.  We’ve got plenty of Mosel wine from Rainer’s cousin’s vineyard, and Rainer picked up some Asti to use for the sparkling wine.  He thinks the sweetness of the Asti will go very well with the [...]

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