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Spicy Shrimp & Tomato Pasta – Shrimp Fra Diavolo

Aug 13, 2012 | Featured, Food

Fra Diavolo, which actually means “Brother Devil” in Italian, is typically a flavorful pasta dish with a tomato base (although some Fra Diavolo recipes have no tomatoes) and a healthy kick of chili peppers. You’ll probably never find it being served in Italy since...

Wurst Käse Salat – A classic summer dish

Jun 13, 2012 | Featured, Food, German Specialties, Mains, Side Dishes

There’s a specialty here in Germany which is extremely simple to make but that I somehow never tried to create myself. The German restaurant down the street from us makes wurst käse salat, which basically is a sausage and cheese salad with onions, vinegar, pickles and...

Roast beef recipe with cauliflower & kohlrabi

Apr 2, 2012 | Featured, Food, German Specialties

Last week, I decided to try something never before done in my house — make fresh roast beef. I was looking around for recipes to make for the upcoming week, and the roast been just smiled at me from the page. Now I got a bit apprehensive when the recipe indicated that...

Creamy Sausage & Potato Soup

Feb 13, 2012 | Food

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

Jan 16, 2012 | Breads, Breakfasts, Desserts, Food

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...