Creamy Sausage & Potato Soup

Creamy Sausage & Potato Soup

About two weeks ago, I picked up a 5 kilo sack of potatoes for something absurd like 99 cents. I have been eating a few of them for lunch…and we’ve also made Bratkartoffeln with them. But there are still a lot of them left. So it was time to figure out something more...
Pumpkin Bread with Chocolate Chips

Pumpkin Bread with Chocolate Chips

If you haven’t noticed, I’ve been on a pumpkin & squash kick around here lately. Roasted pumpkin seeds, pureed pumpkin…and the butternut squash soup. And as if that weren’t enough, I also made some pumpkin bread last week that we have just been devouring! My first...
Make your own pumpkin puree

Make your own pumpkin puree

To me, Thanksgiving is not officially Thanksgiving without pumpkin pie. There were several years here in Germany that we just let Thanksgiving day slip by, cooking something traditionally American for the day, but not really going to all the trouble. And a few times,...
Strawberry Raspberry Lime Sorbet

Strawberry Raspberry Lime Sorbet

 The berry season is winding down here and I happened to pick up some really gorgeous late season strawberries last week, which have now just been sitting in our fridge because my plans to make something with them over the weekend didn’t pan out. So I decided to make...