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vanilla extract

The Grass is Always Greener…

January 9, 2012

You can imagine my surprise when I spotted this in the dairy section of my nearby Real supermarket: Yep, that’s grated cheddar! Not only that, over Christmas, in the baking aisle, there was real, honest to goodness, vanilla extract (I’m still going to make my own though). Dr Pepper is now available at the same [...]

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Weekly Winners – 29 March 2009

March 29, 2009

March 22-28, 2009 On Sunday, I made Sauerbraten, and Oliver made a mess, throwing all my chopped vegetables on to the floor – but Charlie helped clean up Remember to scoop the poop! Storm approaching Jar of homemade vanilla extract (you can read my how-to post if you’re interested in doing this yourself – it’s [...]

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The Great Vanilla Extract Experiment

February 28, 2008

For six years, I’ve brought a large bottle of vanilla extract home with me from the States every year.  While living in Berlin, I considered the tiny, overpriced bottles available at KaDeWe.  I searched expat and gourmet  shops.  I searched online.  I looked at recipes.  To be honest, it doesn’t look that difficult to make your own, [...]

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Christina’s Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies

October 14, 2007

Mrs. Fields ain’t got nothin’ on me! Although I’ve heard expats complaining about the consistency of their cookies being off, I’ve never had that problem with this recipe. For flour, I use Gold Puder type 405 für feine Backwaren, for butter I use Meggle die Alpenbutter, and for chocolate I use Sarotti and/or Côte D’Or [...]

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Wissenshunger

October 12, 2007

Lately, I’ve taken to watching the German TV show Wissenshunger (Hunger for Knowledge), which is a show about all different kinds of food topics. Tonight, I learned about Bienenstich (Bee-sting) cake. It’s called Bienenstich because apparently some bakers in the 15th century were up early and a little more aware of what was going on [...]

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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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