Rhubarb cake topped with tasty sweet meringue has always been a Springtime favorite. This recipe brought back a lot of happy memories. Tucked away in an old journal, I found a few browned pages that I hand-copied from my Oma’s recipe drawer. She always took a short nap after lunch, so naturally, I took the opportunity to grab a few…
Category: German Recipes
Raspberry Streusel Cheesecake Recipe- Himbeer Käse Streuselkuchen
After tasting an amazing Himbeer Käse Streuselkuchen in Berlin, I spent three years working on the exact recipe for this German Raspberry Cheesecake with Streusel Recipe. For a while, I felt like Captain Ahab, certain that the White Whale could be found in fresh berries and streusel. Why did it take so long? Well, I certainly wasn’t baking this cake…
German Celery Root Salad Recipe- Selleriesalat
The first time I went through the supermarket checkout with a Celeriac knob, a celery root, the cashier looked at it in horror. WHAT IS THAT? To be fair, you won’t find Celery Root gracing the cover of “Beautiful Vegetable Monthly”. Frankly, the thing looks like a Turnip’s ugly cousin. Still, when prepared properly, like in this German Celery Root…
German Green Bean Salad Recipe – Grüner Bohnensalat
My mother must have prepared this German Green Bean Salad Recipe (Grüner Bohnensalat) at least a few times a month and maybe even weekly during the summer. Come to think of it, these green beans arrived on the table at Oma’s house quite often, too. Why? It’s a simple recipe that tastes good. Better yet, you can easily adjust depending…
German Beet Salad – Rote Beete Salat for your Salatteller
As a child, I considered beets to be incredibly deceptive. The color of my mother’s Rote Beete Salat looked like garnets, and edible jewels should taste of magic. But instead, German Beet Salad tasted like, well… beets. Still, like I always told my kids, when you grow up, your tongue changes, and things you once ran from now taste delicious.…
Oma’s Simple Salad with Creamy German Salad Dressing
My Oma often served a side salad of Feld Salat with her Creamy German Salad Dressing as a side dish to the warm midday meal. The dressing may seem unusual since it contains heavy cream and sugar, but adding oil, vinegar, and diced onion somehow works. When I was a rotten child, I picked out the onions and tried to…
Schinken Käse Eier Salat Recipe- German Ham Cheese Egg Salad
I got this recipe for Schinken Käse Eier Salat (Ham Cheese Egg salad) from a friend of my cousin who served it at an Easter Brunch. It’s a variation on a Wurst Salat, a combination of cheese, sausage, herbs, oil, and vinegar. (Don’t confuse it with Fleischsalat, Meat Salad, which is made with a mayo base instead of oil and…
Vanilla Sauce Recipe – Vanillesoße – the Perfect Dessert Topping!
Vanillesoße is the little black dress of sauces. Honestly, it just goes with every dessert or Nachtisch… it softens the tartness of Rote Gruetze, gives an added dimension to Apfelstrudel, and it magically transforms boring chocolate pudding to a fancy dessert. My Oma always kept packets of instant Vanillesoße in her “packet drawer” (you know the one… it had packets…
Easy German Cookbook: 80 Classic Recipes Made Simple
I’m so proud of my first book! Easy German Cookbook: 80 Classic Recipes Made Simple Easy German Cookbook was a labor of love. However, sharing German culture and food is what I do online, so this book is the next logical step. Between the covers, you’ll find 80 pages of food memories. These are foods that we ate at home,…