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Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein

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: Shrimp ragout

May 4, 2009

Sorry for the delay in getting this up. I was hit this morning with a killer cold, and Oliver has an ear infection, so our house is just a joy to be in right now. Anyways, this week I made the second of our four (it was three, but I just found another recipe that [...]

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Real German Cuisine Challenge: Pharisäer

March 30, 2009

This week’s challenge was to make a Pharisäer (Pharisee), a coffee and rum drink from the North Sea coastal area of Germany.  There’s a cute story that goes along with the recipe, that the residents put whipped cream on top of the spiked coffee to “hide the sin” from the preacher.  When he discovered their [...]

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Real German Cuisine Challenge: Wurzelsuppe (Root Soup)

March 16, 2009

This week’s challenge was an easy, low calorie soup from the Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg section of the Echte Deutsche Küche cookbook, Wurzelsuppe (Root soup).  Unfortunately, in all the birthday hub bub around here, I completely forgot to buy ingredients to make it this weekend (even after meeting up with Emily on Thursday in Munich and [...]

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