My dear friend Simone from Junglefrog Cooking and Scribbles&Notes and her partner Tom are adopting triplets this week and it is a wonderful reason to celebrate and have a kitty shower! Yes a kitty shower! Simone and Tom are taking the leap of adopting three kittens at once. Are they crazy? No they have fallen ...
Spring in Northern and Central Europe is not only recognized by the emergence of forsythia, daffodils and tulips but also by the heady smell of garlic floating through the wood in the early springtime. A walk through traditional wooded areas where the ground is moist and the leaves still lay thick from the Fall often ...
Easter: rabbit, eggs, basket, bonnet, chocolate, chickadees and for me woolly sheep and lambs. I don’t want to offend anyone but I am not religious and therefore my associations are not religiouseither. However I do appreciate religious music and “All we like sheep” pops into my head when I think of Easter. Having sung Handel’s ...
For me, nothing cures my homesickness for America like a cheesecake! Not the German Käsekuchen kind with curd and a yeast crust, but good old cookie crust with cream cheese filling and the flavor of the season cheesecake. So I have decided to share a series of seasonal cheesecakes with you in the upcoming weeks and ...
Is breaking your traditions a good thing or a bad? Does it show adaptation and a willingness to embrace change or do we miss it like a part of us that has been broken off? For most of the last 10 years on New Years Eve my husband and I have reveled in our hotel ...
I have wanted to make an entremet composé for so long – but I was chicken. I am not a good baker – not for lack of enthusiasm it just doesn’t come naturally to me like cooking does. But this year I decided I needed a Christmas dinner highlight – elegant, pretty and of course delicious! ...
What do you take to a Christmas pool party that will not shrink like a violet in the chlorine air and which is small enough to lay out on a pool basin rim? Most participants are bringing champagne, juice, cookies, Lebkuchen (German gingerbread), chocolate Santas and other typical Christmas-y treats but I am always starving ...
The »plat de résistance« of French Christmas tradition with a yumandmore twist – spicy dark chocolate filling and vanilla white chocolate icing. This recipe is my holiday gift to you my readers and followers, thank you for being there and believing in my creativity. History: In France, as in most countries with a Celtic tradition, ...
At this time last year I was very sad. It was fig season and there were none to be had. In Germany most of our figs arrive from Turkey and when the harvest yield is small, the best figs remain in Turkey. Understandable of course but I was disappointed none the less. HURRAY!!! This year ...
Culinarily speaking, Bavaria is known for it’s hearty food such as pig knuckles and beer. Yes, beer is a food in Bavaria. Whereas Frankfurt am Main also referred to as Mainhattan because of its bank skyscrapers, is part of Hesse, and it is known throughout Germany for it’s Apfelwein (applewine) and it’s Grie Sooß – ...