If you are from this area you most likely know Almond Roca but if you are out of state or even out of country you might have never heard of this candy. Its a Butter Toffee Almond candy made right here in Seattle (well Tacoma ;-)), wrapped in gold foil and sold in round pink…
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…
I know I am not being very “holidayish” these days…haven’t posted any X-mas cookie recipes or anything about Thanksgiving – to my excuse – I did very little cooking for Thanksgiving and Mike and I enjoyed a great meal and time with our friends the Sudore’s and their family – on top of the great food and…
Today is a very special day for kids in Germany – it was always my most favorite day after Christmas – Today is Nikolaus! Saint Nicholas was a historic 4th-century Christian saint. Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession he is also known as Nikolaos the Wonderworker; he had a reputation for secret gift-giving,…
Its not like I know EVERY single dish in this world but when it comes to desserts I would say I have tried 99% of all the desserts that exist in this world and then I read about “Possets”- what the heck is a posset and why have I never heard of it? After some…
Good old Wikipedia always helps me out when I want to share a recipe but don’t really know the entire story behind the dish. Not that it is always important but it can’t hurt to know what’s “behind” the actual dish, especially when its not originating from my country and I don’t have any background. So…
Guess I am on a roll this week with my German recipes – although this one might qualify as “typical German” but it did not originate in Germany, the most delicious desserts actually come from Austria and to be specific from Vienna. I felt like eating something sweet for lunch and so I made this dish for…
As always I am a little bit late with my posts compared to when this dish was actually in season. Plum season ended 3 weeks ago, and I got the chance to raid the last plums in our friends yard and made this original recipe of a German Plum Sheet cake that originates in southern Germany, a town…
Mike brought home a bunch of apples out of our friends yard and I immediately thought that I have to give Applestrudel a shot. I’ve made it a long time ago and remembered that rolling out the dough super thin is the toughest part but even if its not getting all that thin it still…
I am sure you have heard it over and over again from friends who give you a recipe – this is THE BEST cake ever, you have to bake it and then you bake it and its so la la…well here I am this is THE BEST chocolate cake EVER – that is if you like…