Cooking

The christmas markets don't get going until next weekend, I found out today, so I'll write a little about cooking with my host mom here in Germany.

Sometimes on weekends or when I have time I help my host mom cook lunch or whatever she is making. Lunch is the biggest meal of the day in most German families, while breakfast and dinner are usually simple, cold meals consisting of breads and toppings, and salads and vegetables. My host mom is fun to cook with because for some strange reason she has complete faith in my cooking abilities, even with things that I have no clue what to do. Sometimes you cook with someone and one person completely dominates the kitchen and tries to do everything, but my host mom gets stuff ready for me and then says, "Here, you know what to do with this right?" It's pretty fun sometimes. She still does work on other things and tells me what to do when, and what to add and such, so in the end I am like a second set of hands for her. We end up making a pretty solid team sometimes.

This morning, for example, we baked a batch of cupcakes. We didn't use any boxed mix or anything, just eggs, flour, sugar, milk, etc. We made some plain ones, some chocolate chip ones, and a batch of marzipan-ish almond ones. Some were later topped with a sugar glaze and chocolate flakes or sprinkles, and some were powdered with powdered sugar. We ate a good chunk of the total 36 cupcakes during our families usual Sunday coffee, hot chocolate, and cake session, which I have come to really enjoy.

Anyway, expect pictures for the next post, as well as that christmas market information I hinted at.

-Kevin