Snowmaggedon – yeah right – the weather people for years now forecast a big snowstorm at one point of time in winter here in Seattle and Mike and I are getting all excited and what happens – nothing, if we are lucky a super light dusting, far different than a snowstorm, well not this time,…
Wow what a busy 4 weeks it has been and especially a really busy Memorial Day Weekend. We helped our neighbors and friends to move out of their house on Friday, had an all day Macaron baking session with Lily and Astrid on Saturday which turned out delicious macarons but were not so pretty to look…
Really does the world need another chocolate chip cookie recipe? It doesn’t if you like the traditional Toll House Chocolate Chip cookie which I think tastes awful and the cookies look bad too! There you have it, I insulted an American staple!! Well let me give you a little bit of background information: We (Germans) don’t…
Elisenlebkuchen are traditional German Christmas cookies so you could say I am a dollar short and a day late with posting this recipe, but who is to say you can eat certain cookies only at certain times? Astrid and I baked these cookies a couple of weeks ago and they were so delicious and flavorful that…
I am finally getting into Christmas mood. The Christmas tree is up and decorated and I got around to some Christmas Cookie baking – its not really Christmas time for me until I have baked a few German Christmas cookies. My favorite one being “Zimtsterne” (Cinnamon Stars). I was really lucky that my friend Astrid…
So what do you do when its 85 degrees in the Pacific Northwest and its too hot to garden, cook, shop or hike? You pack up some cold beers, a bottle of Pinot Grigio, some chocolate chip cookies, grab your friends and go river floating. That’s what we did last weekend and we thoroughly enjoyed…
Hm, the Germany diet is not going so well…I really really wanted to bake cookies and a couple of days ago I finally broke down and baked these super tasty Butter Cookies.I found this recipe on the back of a “Domino Sugar” package and to my surprise they came out great right after the first try – with…
I never understood the fuss about French Macarons until I tried the Passion Fruit as well as the Persian Rose Macarons at Chantal Guillon’s in Palo Alto. I think I bought a package of 20 Macarons for myself and a smaller package of 10 for my friend Irina. I ate the first one in the car on the ride…
A German in Seattle 