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This week’s recipe was Pumpernickeleis (Pumpernickel ice cream). I’d always thought you needed an ice cream maker to make ice cream, so I was very much looking forward to trying this freezer/stirring once an hour method. I let the pumpernickel dry out, but it still doesn’t grate well, I just broke it up into as small pieces […]
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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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This week’s recipe was Zwetschgenmichel, or plum casserole, from the German state of Thuringen (Thuringia). Thuringen is in central Germany and is home to the towns of Erfurt, Gera, Jena and Weimar.
Zwetschgen are plums used to make prunes. Zwetschgen trees are quite common here, almost everyone with a garden has one in it, including us. Unfortunately, […]
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Christina Geyer has lived in Germany since May 2002. She has lived in Berlin, Rostock, Potsdam, and has now settled pretty much permanently in the Regensburg area. In addition to blogging on AmiExpat.com, she founded the parenting site Mamas Worldwide. For more, see About Christina.
