Original Bavarian Bread Dumplings

    Original Bavarian Bread Dumplings

    Germans are big fans of the dumplings. Some are made from bread, others from potatoes, and all of them taste pretty fantastic. Of the two, bread dumplings are a bit easier to make and there’s really very few ingredients or steps involved. It’s really a matter of...
    How to make Bavarian potato salad

    How to make Bavarian potato salad

    There are many, many different ways to make potato salad and most of them taste great. One common way of making potato salad in Germany is with what seems like a pound of mayonnaise in it. If that is what you’re looking for, this is definitely not it. Mostly because I...
    All About Germany: Food

    All About Germany: Food

    When I started trying to learn German, the first things I focused on were food and beer. I knew what was important in life — and these things were extremely important it turned out, because you also don’t want to end up eating something made entirely of...
    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,...