Tag: culinary foreign exchange

28Feb

Chicken filo parcels

It’s no secret that Europe is a very small continent, especially when compared to places like Russia, US, Australia or Brazil…If I drive out of Frankfurt right now I will be in France in 2 hours, a 3 hour drive would get me to Belgium, Switzerland or the Czech Republic…It’s almost ridiculous. So when I tell people that I need to take a 3 and a half hour flight to get from São Paulo to my hometown, they find it hard to believe it. If I got on a plane for 3 and a half hours from Frankfurt, I would be in another continent. The interesting thing though is that even though everything is relatively close by each country has very distinct cultural and food traditions. Whilst here in Germany the traditional food is a bit “primitive” with things like pig trotters and sausage, big portions of it with very little extra added. Next door, in France food is a tad more refined. I find this all very interesting. And then Mariana has the wonderful idea to do a culinary foreign exchange. So every so often she will send me a typical English ingredient and I will send her German
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13Feb

Dark chocolate cookies {GF and DF}

I feel I should apologise for being a bit absent lately. Although we’ve been posting our recipes I don’t feel I have been looking after our blog as much as I did a couple months ago, and haven’t been as active reading the food blogs I enjoy reading so much. I blame my wedding, it has taken over my life. Not in a bridezilla way, I actually wish I had enough money to pay someone to just do the organising for me because it has become so stressful. Do a DYI wedding, they said. It will be fun, they said. They were wrong. Especially when you have to work two jobs on top of the planning. This blog is how I de-stress but it has been hard to have the time to test all the recipe ideas I have (and I have many). And this little project me and Karla have going was so much fun, it reminds me of how much I love food blogging. We made a deal we would send each other traditional ingredients from our adopted countries (England and Germany) to each other and try to figure out how to use them in recipes. This is the first post
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