Hands down, my favorite breakfast is two soft boiled eggs, a touch of butter, a piece or two of good ham or salami, a nice warm crusty roll or some dense wheat bread, and a cup of strong coffee with real cream…
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Homemade Celery Salt
March 31st, 2009 | by Jen | published in All, DIY Food Projects, Most Popular, Succulent Spices, Weekend Projects
Homemade Garam Masala
March 24th, 2009 | by Jen | published in All, Around the World, DIY Food Projects, Most Popular, Succulent Spices
The range of culinary emotions I’ve experienced living here in Germany for the past three months span the whole gamut: rage that I cannot find dried ancho chiles, miso, or beef other than stew meat or flank…
Wintertime Tomato Sauce
February 24th, 2009 | by Jen | published in All, Garlic, Onion, Succulent Spices, Tomatoes, Veritable Vegetables, Weeknight Recipes
Let’s face it — fresh tomatoes you buy in the grocery store during the wintertime are awful. They’re usually shipped in from factory farms in far off lands, and more often than not have a mushy…
Desperado Onion Soup
February 20th, 2009 | by Jen | published in All, Most Popular, Onion, Veritable Vegetables, Weeknight Recipes
Long time no see! The recent Modern Beet silence has been due to the fact that I made an international move and have been adjusting to life in Germany. What a change it has been!
Homemade Gravlax
December 2nd, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, Around the World, Dill, DIY Food Projects, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Honorable Herbs, Most Popular, Sausages, Meats, Weekend Projects
I can’t believe how easy it is to make gravlax. Or let me rephrase that statement — I can’t believe it’s so easy to make gravlax, and it’s taken me until now to try it!
Homemade Turkey Stock
November 28th, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, DIY Food Projects, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Honorable Herbs, Meats and Sausages, Parsley, Sausages, Meats, Veritable Vegetables, Weekend Projects
Somehow I ended up with a large turkey carcass in my refrigerator at the close of yesterday evening. Funny, since Thanksgiving was not at my house, and I was not in charge of cooking the turkey…
Rutabaga Bisque with Smoked Paprika
November 20th, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, Delectable Dairy, Most Popular, Onion, Rutabaga, Veritable Vegetables, Weeknight Recipes
I was looking out my apartment window the other day when my gaze came to rest on a tree about fifteen feet away from the house. I have to climb a set of stairs to get to my door, so when I look out the window…
Pie Crust with Rendered Bacon Fat (aka Bacon Grease Pie Crust) (aka The Best Pie Crust Ever)
November 4th, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, Cheese, DIY Food Projects, Grand Grains, Meats and Sausages, Most Popular, Tomatoes, Veritable Vegetables
Oh. My. God. This is the best pie crust I have ever tasted! So flaky. So moist. And oh the hint of bacon… In preparing for our move to Germany, I have been going through the cupboards…
Creamed Swiss Chard with Bacon
October 30th, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, Chard, Delectable Dairy, Most Popular, Veritable Vegetables, Weeknight Recipes
These past few weeks have been particularly busy and challenging for me. I changed jobs, spent two weeks in Germany for work, recovered, and am now packing my bags to go again this weekend!
‘Haxe’ is not the German word for ‘Hake’
October 14th, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, Around the World, Meats and Sausages, Sausages, Meats
10 days into my work trip here in Germany, and my first big culinary misinterpretation… The menu read something like ‘Gegrilltes Haxe mit Semmelknödel und Sauerkraut’. I thought I was getting grilled fish…
