You’ll find an ingredient set at the base of every culture’s cuisine that adds a specific flavor profile to many dishes. This building block sets up a steady base for other ingredients. It’s seldom the star of the show, but the dish wouldn’t be right without it. In German cooking, this base is known as Suppengrün or Suppengemüse. A trio…
Category: German Foods and Recipes
German Goulash Recipe- A Love Letter From the Kitchen
Goulash is a family favorite. Why not? My mom’s recipe tastes delicious. Warm and flavorful, it’s a delicious love letter from the kitchen. It’s a tasty family dinner, and it’s “nice” enough for company. When served over everyone’s favorite homemade Spätzle, Goulash is a crowd pleaser. I can hear it now, “Goulash isn’t German, it’s Hungarian”. Well, I’m sure that…
German Lentil Soup with Würstchen
Going over the dinner/grocery list the other day, I suddenly craved German Lentil Soup (Linsensuppe), the kind my mom made…with Würstchen (Frankfurters). When I was a child, we’d each get our own sausage with the soup, and the ends would hang over the bowl. To my 8 year old brain, THAT was the height of luxury! (Honestly, I was a…
German Marble Cake Recipe with Eierlikör- Eierlikör Marmorkuchen
A Marmorkuchen (German Marble cake) usually satisfies everyone at the table: those who like chocolate AND those who like vanilla. Vanilla cake batter swirled with chocolate cake batter, resulting in a pretty “marbled” appearance. This German marble cake recipe with Eierlikör ramps up the flavor by adding your Oma’s favorite (and quite tasty) Eierlikör, which is mixed into both batters…
The Origins of the “German” Dutch Baby Pancake Recipe
The “Three P’s” of German topics guaranteed to bring on online arguements between normally levelheaded people are German Potato Salad, the German Christmas Pickle, and the German Pancake. (Potato, Pickle, Pancake). It’s exhausting. All German Potato Salads are authentic… Regional recipes get passed down through generations. So I will concede that your Oma’s warm German Potato Salad is tasty, but…
German Cherry Streusel Cake Recipe
My husband did not want me to share this German Cherry Streusel Cake Recipe. Why? Because he loves it so much, he wants to keep it all for himself. But I explained to him that although it IS cake if I share it, plenty will still be left over for him. And besides, after baking it four times this week,…
Streuseltaler Recipe- Tasty Pastries with Fruit and Streusel
When I arrived at the Frankfurt airport, my daughter and I needed to fill an hour before our train. Fortunately, we found a bakery at the airport… so we filled the hour and our stomachs. I grabbed a fruit topped Streuseltaler because…YUM! A fruit compote, jam, or pudding sit on a yeast dough pastry, topped by crunchy sweet streusel, and…
Spekulatius Truffles- An easy and delicious Christmas Treat
A few years ago, I started making simple Truffles around the Holidays as little gifts and to help corners of my Bunter Teller. Making these rich (and I mean REALLY RICH) Spekulatius Truffles doesn’t take that long, and it’s easy to find helpers since everyone loves playing with the chocolate. You can even get the little ones in your world…
Buy German Bread Online from The Brot Box
Ask most people what they miss the most about Germany, and they will say…”The Bread”. Flavorful loaves made from rye for Abendbrot, Brötchen (rolls) with crisp crust at the breakfast table, seeded loaves to accompany soups. And while the artisanal breads are starting to gain traction here in the United States, NOTHING compares to a good loaf of German Bread.…
German Red Wine Cake- Tante Edith’s Rotwein Kuchen Recipe
When my cousin Linda sent me a photo of Tante Edith’s German red wine cake recipe, I felt like I was doing a Technical challenge in the British Baking Show tent. The ingredients (naturally) were all in German, and the amounts were in grams. Okay, I can handle that. The instructions, though, were a bit more cryptic. 1. Beat the…