Some Like it Hot

Well the new year has started, and I hope you are recovering well. We ate rice cake soup, and had berliners. Rice cake soup is traditional for the new years in Korea. Luckily my mother sent a box here to Germany to make absolutely sure her children and grand child would be able to eat it on the new years. I think all three of us enjoyed it so very much, but the two adults were almost cried over our bowls. We missed eating it so very much. In Germany they eat berliners , jelly filled doughnuts, and they were fantastic. We had one each, and then the L.O. decided he had enough and went to bed at 7pm.

Our neighbors had bought tons of fire works and when midnight hit, we could see the flickering through the rolladens (the metal shades over the windows, all american houses should have them!). L.O. didn’t even stir.

I hope you had a wonderful New years!

We have been eating, this awesome kimchi I made a couple of weeks ago…I will have to figure out what I had done to make it come out so good. maybe I won’t be able to recreate it but I am up for the challenge.

I have been making kimchi since I was 3 and could help my Korean Grandmother. I do not really have a lot of available korean stores or restaurants here, since living in Germany. I have to make it every couple of weeks, days, months, depending on our eating habits. The kimchi I have been making lately has been to our tastes fantastic.
We moved the country, and have a bigger house I also have an extra refrigerator. I have the small German on in the kitchen and the American one in the garage. I keep all of the korean condiments, kimchi’s, extra water, and leftovers, and some of the veggies in the big refrigerator since the small one doesn’t hold much. Having the extra refrigerator has made it so much easier to make kimchi, and store it. Before I had to use small canning jars to hold our kimchi. Now I can use 2 quart jars, or gallon jars if I wanted. So, I have been making more kimchi than I had made in Stuttgart.

Lately though my kimchi has been really great. I mean it was good before but this has my DH doing the Kimchi Shimmy. I will have to post a recipe soon as we get near emptying out the last jars. I can’t say whether you would think it is the most awesome but it is rocking our boat.

So I have had some pommes frites, with currywurst sauce, mayo and onions…Not good for my diet, but mighty tasty treat.

A lot of people say that the currywurst sauce is just ketchup with curry powder, but a lot of places I have eaten it is more than that. If it is just ketchup with curry powder than it better be really good homemade ketchup with a sweet/tart/spicy twang.

Living here in Germany, I have found my english spelling and grammar declining and I can’t remember sometimes which language I am spelling in, of course my german is terrible currently. *sigh*

DH ” You know I have been living in Germany too long when I misspell a word with an umlaut, and it bugged me.”

I have been misspelling words in english and German ever since I moved here and started to try to learn the language…

It took me long enough to spell umlaut correctly in english. I desperately wanted to add an “e”.

I wish I had taken a picture of the fries, but they are long demolished. Sorry guys. I promise I will take photos the next time.

I have moved out of the big city and into a much smaller city here in Germany. I am trying to get adjusted to the change. Loving it here in Germany but with it comes a lot of baggage that needs to be thrown away.

I need to get excited about my new town, and I am but I am so missing Stuttgart. I always wanted to live in a small town and now I am, I am realizing I like the city a lot too. Well I am picking myself up, and trying to get all these boxes unpacked. Hopefully I will be a better blogger, and a better small towner.

Have a great day.

Tschuß!

I am so late in getting anything done. I have no excuses than, the little one is a lot of work, but well worth every busy disorganized moment. Something is wrong with my uploader, and I can’t post pictures. *sigh* I will get something up!

I just wanted to let you know that I am still alive. We have been busy getting ready for a new member of our family to show up, and hopefully if I can get access to the large computer will be posting more pictures of Germany, and Austria. I hope you all had a wonderful year last year, and I will try not to skip a whole year before posting again.

A quick Stop in Weimar for a really good applel strudel and excellent vanilla ice cream. I couldn’t tell you the bakery’s name because it was so cold I just ran in without seeing the name, and then forgot to check when we left. I know that is terrible.

Here are some pictures of mostly east Berlin. Sorry. I did not get any photographs of the new years party mainly because it was a fiasco. DH and I got separated, too many people, and almost being crushed, it was not to fun, but here are some lovely photographs.

Don’t feel too bad that we did not go to KA DE We but we did have a nice cappuccino and snacks at Cafe Percil.
Friedrichstraße 237
10969 Berlin
Germany

We were given honey, nutella, and butter, a croissant, and very ripe lovely fruit. It must have looked like DH and I had nothing to eat as we decimated the plate, with moans of joy. Sometimes I think it is just the simple things that make life pleasurable.

Initially I had stuck my head between the legs to say hi to DH and he burst out laughing, and if you can guess why then good for you, and if you can’t well I am not going to post the picture! ;P

Sorry for the lack of food photgraphs, but I kept forgetting my camera. the first night we great meal at german restaurant near the East Berlin TV tower. I had König Klopse, meat ball in sauce with pickled beets on the side. Dh had Gulasch over spaetzle. Both meals were outstanding, but the thing that stood out was the pickled beets. We were fighting over my pickled beets. They were tender and crunchy and sweet and sour perfect to go along with our meals. Unfortunately my notes are blurry on the name of the restaurants, but it is near the TV tower.

On New Years eve we had reservations at a restaurant under the train station. DH and I had Pork Medallions wrapped in strudel I believe with fried potato rounds and salad. Man that was outstanding. Very rich but very delicious. The apple strudel couldn’t compare to the bakery in Weimar but it was good with creme anglais.

Sorry It took me so long to get this post up, but DH has been working on the computer for school, and this one computer has all the photographs loaded up on them. I hope you have been having and awesome time, and I will try my hardest to get to the computer and post soon.

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Happy New year everyone, yeah I know it is February already, but I have been recovering and busy. I hope everyone is doing well. Dh and I spend some time in Berlin over the new years, and let me say that new years in Germany is very dangerous. It sounded like a war zone, and people were shoot off fire crackers and fireworks in every which direction. The next day you could not step anywhere without stepping on a used fire work or fire cracker.

So Here I will leave you with some photographs of the Stuttgart Weihnachtsmarkt.

Sorry these are from 2007 apparently I am missing a whole bunch of christmas photographs.

I will try to get the Berlin photographs up soon.

I hope everyone of you had a wonderful Halloween. It is funny that Halloween is one of my favourite holidays, but lately it seems that it gets short shrift in the United States. Here in Germany every year more people celebrate Halloween. This coming from my very wobbly grasp of the language. I just hope everyone had a wonderful time.

Well it is coming up to Christmas here, and it is one of my favourite Holidays, and I have to say that celebrating Christmas in Germany Rocks! I love the decorations, the food, Weihnachtmarkt (christmas markets), the gluehwein (like mulled wine), and the street food… I can’t wait. I wish you could spend it here with me. I think I want to spend every Christmas in Germany…*sigh* Well some of you better get over here at least for one Christmas here. I guess I like it here because it doesn’t seem as commercialized as it is in the states. Also you can say Merry Christmas, and not have anyone look dirty at you. Of course it is said in german but I digress. I wish we could say Merry Christmas, and have to other person reply thanks and Happy/Merry instead of you have no right to say that to me! *sigh* Anyways Whatever your beliefs, I hope you have a wonderful Christmas, Channuka, Solstice, etc.

The Weihnachtmarkt doesn’t start till the end of November, so probably I will have some pictures of all the festivities later. I am so excited! I can’t wait for Christmas! I have not forgotten the reason for the season, Jesus. But whatever you celebrate please be at peace, and good cheer. YAY!!!!

Now go get yourself a treat, and spend some time with your loved ones! Have a happy fall, and Thanksgiving! No I didn’t forget about Thanksgiving! Eat some turkey for me, we are having ham this year, and it might be just DH and I. Be grateful for the family friends that surrounds you!

I will try to have more pictures up soon.