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It’s a new year, and so far I haven’t thrown up! I’m still weak and suffering from nausea, but I’m keeping food down and gaining weight. I spent a couple hours at the mall on Wednesday, thoroughly enjoying a Ben & Jerry’s milkshake while Oliver played on the indoor playground and went on […]
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This week’s recipe Zwiebelmarktkuchen (Onion Festival Cake) is a specialty from Weimar in the German state of Thüringen. The Weimar Onion Festival, or Zweibelmarkt, takes place in October and has been going on for 365 years. This dish is a specialty of the festival.
The dish reminded me somewhat of Flammkuchen, except with more onions and a less rich […]
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This week’s recipe challenge was Märkischer Rindfleischtopf (Mark Brandenburg Beef Stew). The Mark Brandenburg is the area including and surrounding the city of Berlin. I wasn’t too impressed with the local cuisine when we lived in Berlin and in Potsdam, but the recipes from this book for that region have been pretty good.
This is the first week where […]
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Sorry about the delay in posting this week. I got hit with a horrible cold. I’m not completely well yet, but hopefully there are only a few more days of cold to deal with.
This week’s recipe was Miesmuscheln in Weisswein (Mussels in white wine). We enjoy mussels, but have never made them ourselves. I got a friend […]
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This week’s recipe was Kaninchen mit Pilzen, or rabbit with mushrooms. It comes from the section for the state of Nordrhein-Westfallen. This state is home to the cities of Düsseldorf, Köln (Cologne) and Bonn.
This is the first of several rabbit recipes in this cookbook. Germans are very fond of eating rabbit, and while I’m sure it’s […]
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This week’s recipe challenge was Dampfnudeln mit Weinschaum or sweet yeast dumplings with wine sauce. There are only two words to describe this recipe: FREAKING DELICIOUS!
Somehow, I’d managed to live over 7 years in Germany without ever having Dampfnudeln. Regensburg just happens to have a restaurant, Dampfnudel Uli, that top German chef Alfons Schuhbeck says makes the best Dampfnudeln. Even […]
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This week’s recipe, Würzfleisch mit Pilzem (Pork ragout with mushrooms), comes from the “Niedersachsen and Bremen” section of the Echte Deutsche Küche cookbook. Niedersachsen is the northwest corner of Germany and has a North Sea coastline. The state of Bremen contains two cities, Bremen and Bremerhaven. This was one of the main ports where German emigrants left for […]
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Christina has lived in Germany since May 2002. In addition to blogging on AmiExpat.com, she founded the site Mamas Worldwide and is a contributor on API Speaks. For more, see About Christina.
