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Real German Cuisine Challenge: Zwetschgenmichel (plum casserole)

August 17, 2009

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 [...]

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Upcoming Real German Cuisine Challenges

August 10, 2009

I just did a tally, and so far we’ve done 26 out of 197 recipes.  If we manage 50 a year, it’ll take 4 years to get through the book.  But then there are a lot of sides that can go together with roasts, and maybe we can combine some drinks with cakes or dessert.  So we’ll [...]

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Real German Cuisine Challenge: Dicke Milch

August 3, 2009

This week’s recipe was Dicke Milch, or Thick Milk.  It’s a dessert from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (just like last week’s recipe), which is the region of Germany along the Baltic Sea.  I had a lot of reservations about eating milk that was left out for 1-2 days, a lot more, in fact, than eating the sweetbread earlier [...]

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Real German Cuisine: Buttermilchplinsen (Buttermilk pancakes)

July 27, 2009

This week’s recipe was Buttermilchplinsen from the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.  This state runs along the beautiful Baltic sea coast of Germany, and it’s biggest city is Rostock, where we lived in 2004-2005.  I never had these while there, but I’m guessing these are more a home cooking dish than something you’d find in a restaurant. [...]

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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: Beeren-Kaltschale (Cold Berry Bowl)

July 13, 2009

This week’s recipe was Beeren-Kaltschale (Cold berry bowl), a cold berry soup for hot summer days.  Unfortunately, here in Bavaria, we haven’t had the weather to go with this dish.  We were wearing jackets in town for the jazz festival yesterday.  The weather report said today would be warm and sunny, but we ended up eating [...]

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Real German Cuisine Challenge: Sauerampfersuepple

July 6, 2009

This week’s recipe was Sauerampfersüpple (Sorrel or Dock soup) from the Baden-Württemberg section of the book.  Sorrel (Sauerampfer) is a sour plant that has both wild and cultivated varieties.  The most common kind of sorrel is all green, while the plant I picked up at our local garden center, though called only “Sauerampfer” appears to [...]

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