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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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Tom Kha Gai and Son in Law Eggs

May 21, 2007

Saturday in our happy household was spent entertaining Rainer’s colleague Wolfram and his wife, Wibke. I was cooking up a storm and was rather pleased with how most of the dishes turned out (the beef and cauliflower was kind of bland – I need to modify this recipe). We started off with Tom Kha Gai, [...]

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Get me an exorcist!!!

April 17, 2007

I was sleeping quite poorly last night and awoke at 3:14am feeling miserable. I couldn’t pinpoint the exact trouble, Oliver was hyperactive, my belly was sore, my back was aching and I had killer heartburn. I tried a glass of milk to no avail, so I grabbed a piece of sugarless candy to suck on [...]

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Television in Deutschland

March 29, 2007

So lately quite a few bloggers have been making helpful posts for the various people that arrive at their respective blogs through searches, and I’ve decided now to do the same. I get a fair number of hits from people looking for either English broadcasts on German television or American shows watched in Germany. So [...]

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Party time, excellent!

March 10, 2007

Yesterday, Rainer’s group had it’s welcome party in the Institute and everyone from his group brought some dishes to serve (yes, I’ve been mostly up and about since Thursday evening, and now Rainer has the killer cold). I ended up cooking and baking up a storm, providing a not too spicy Massaman curry and a [...]

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No Brotherly Love in Deutschland

March 2, 2007

On CNN International this evening, there was a report about a German brother and sister who, after growing up apart with no knowledge of each other (the brother grew up in a foster home), met as young adults and fell in love (they did know they were siblings when they met). They have four children [...]

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I’m a busy little bee

February 23, 2007

Next week is going to be a pretty exciting week. The Oscars are Sunday night, not sure I’m going to stay up for them. Monday morning we have our super duper second trimester ultrasound at St. Hedwig’s hospital where we will most likely find out the sex of the baby. I will try to post [...]

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