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Amerikan Essen I had to check my suitcase because of the tequila, so I brought the bbq sauce (Interstate BBQ Sauce is my family’s favorite). The hot sauce and rub were gifts from Jay and Murph. The chocolate chips I got myself: it’s winter and I feel like baking old favorites from home.
Anybody want to join me in the kitchen?
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TQE : That Queer Expatriate I'm an American living in Berlin, Germany -- which makes me an expatriate, not an ex-patriot. Before landing in Germany, I've lived in Denver, Colorado; Laramie, Wyoming; Bloomington, Indiana; and Weimar, Germany. If you want to write to me, feel free! The username is elmadaeu on the gmail.com service.
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You hauled back chocolate chips and you bought the store brand? 😉
I much prefer European chocolate myself, but then I have not been living over there.
2 months to go until I find out if I qualify for the citizenship, lets see if I end up over there with you.
I’m thinking about making some banana bread…with chocolate chips of course 🙂
@cq: It depends what you are going to do with the chocolate. If you’re baking chocolate chip cookies, the quality/nature of the chocolate isn’t as important, the big difference is the starting point. In America you open a bag of chocolate chips and start from there. In Europe, my friends start with bars of chocolate and a mallet. Sure you get chocolate chips and shards, but the she way they bake isn’t as good as having actual chocolate chips…
@koko: could you send me some? I am thinking about making zucchini bread…
I guess when you take a mallet to your kitchen whilst creating chocolate chips, it suddenly makes sense why Europeans take their kitchens with them when they move. Simply put, nobody would want them because they’ve had the tar beat out of ’em.
Yes, now if you could get butter flavored Crisco over there, your cookies would be Wunderbar!