The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap 2011

Curry Wurst with Curry Ketchup

Folks have repeatedly asked me about it, so here’s another way to make curry wurst. Let’s call it the “brat booth way”, because one place (which you would nowadays call a food truck around here) sold them pretty much in this fashion in my home town. I told you – every spot has their [...]

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Home-Made French Fries with Ketchup and Mayo (“Pommes Rot/Weiß”)

We hardly ever use our deep-fryer around here. It’s usually pulled out for special occasions only – and if I crave something like, in this case, French fries with ketchup and mayo. In Germany these are called pommes frites, or “Pommes” for short – so this way of eating them is simply “Pommes Rot/Weiß” [...]

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Mom’s Macaroni Salad (Nudelsalat) for #WorldOnAPlate

It’s “World on a Plate” time again. I missed it last month due to the Foodbuzz 24 x 24 party, and I would have missed it again this month. Why? Because I’m in lala-land with all of the outside stuff going on – had our fearless leader PolaM from “Italian Cooking in the Midwest” [...]

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Simple German Potato Salad and Wiener Wurst for Father’s Day #SundaySupper

This year’s Father’s Day is a difficult one, as I just lost my dad last December. It was a long time coming, but every once in a while I find myself in situations that somehow trigger a memory, and then I tear up. This photo of his hands is one of the last ones [...]

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Cream of Asparagus Soup (Spargelcremesuppe)

Asparagus season is over, but I have one more asparagus recipe I would like to share. I had mentioned in my original asparagus post that I suspected one of the reasons white asparagus was so wide-spread in Germany lay in the fact that cream of asparagus soup would look really funny if you made [...]

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