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Real German Cuisine Challenge: Flammkuchen mit Pilzen (Tarte Flambee with mushrooms)

September 7, 2009

This weeks challenge was Flammkuchen mit Pilzen or Tarte flambee with mushrooms. We’ve gotten this in restaurants before, but until now, I had no idea how much fat goes into this dish. First, the crust was made with 150 grams of lard.  The crust was easy to make and roll out.  I’m not sure if we got [...]

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Real German Cuisine Challenge: Grumbeersupp mit Quetschekuche

August 24, 2009

This week’s challenge was to make Grumbeersupp mit Quetschekuche, or potato soup with plum cake.  Rainer says this is one of the meals he grew up with, well actually, potato soup with pancakes is how his mom made it, and plum cake was something they had for coffee & cake.  Rainer says Grumbeersupp is how it’s called [...]

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Real German Cuisine Challenge: Grie Soß (Green Sauce)

July 20, 2009

Things have been pretty stressful around here the last couple of weeks.  First we were moving, and then that fell through and  now we’re back on the hunt for a new place.  Anyways, it seems the stress finally got the better of me and I blew it this week.  I didn’t check the blog before [...]

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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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Real German Cuisine Challenge: Rheinischer Sauerbraten

March 23, 2009

This week’s challenge was Rheinischer Sauerbraten (Rhineland sauerbraten) with Schneebällchen (small potato dumplings).  This was pretty much a complete disaster, though it was not at all the recipes fault.  I love Sauerbraten, it’s one of my favorite German dishes, so I was really looking forward to today and nothing seemed to go my way. I [...]

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