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Real German Cuisine Challenge: Fliederbeerensuppe mit “Plauener Spitze” (Elderberry soup with “Plauener Lace”)

September 21, 2009

This week’s recipe was a fruit soup, Fliederbeerensuppe mit “Plauener Spitze” (Elderberry soup with “Plauener lace”), from the section of the book on the German states of Sachsen and Sachsen-Anhalt.  These states were part of East Germany, are located to the south and southwest of Berlin, and are home to the cities of Dresden, Leipzig, [...]

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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: 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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Real German Cuisine Challenge: Wurzelsuppe (Root Soup)

March 16, 2009

This week’s challenge was an easy, low calorie soup from the Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg section of the Echte Deutsche Küche cookbook, Wurzelsuppe (Root soup).  Unfortunately, in all the birthday hub bub around here, I completely forgot to buy ingredients to make it this weekend (even after meeting up with Emily on Thursday in Munich and [...]

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Chocolate Withdrawal

March 26, 2008

We spent this weekend with my in-laws and I think I gained back all the weight I lost over the last 8 months.  My jeans were tight when we left and I spent today going through chocolate withdrawal.  In case you don’t have a German mother-in-law, visits to a GMIL could qualify as world class [...]

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Thanksgiving, Expat style

November 25, 2007

Our Thanksgiving party was a roaring success.  We had 24 guests, pretty evenly split between German speakers and English speakers.  Charlie was a hit with the kids and surprisingly well-behaved.  I’m not worried at all anymore about him interacting with Oliver when Oliver’s a little older. There were several expat bloggers in attendance, all of [...]

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Where’s Christina?

August 28, 2007

What have I been up to? Breastfeeding, basically! (It’s going better, just so you know, but I’ve got a hungry little barracuda on my hands). In a little over a month, Oliver has already cried his first tears, learned to hold his head up pretty steadily (for at least a little while), raised his head [...]

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