> Rampant Easterisms on display at Caffee Moguntia. (The roastery in Bodenheim, not the TSOW that is..) I couldn’t resist and bought their entire stock…..
> …Tiffany’s Nelly’s. This place is a treat. Good Turkish mocca, good café au lait (if you order a double shot…), excellent menemen (a first for me), nice mix of…
> …that purple is THE fashion colour of the coming season. Even for accessoires such as potatoes…
> … and trying to shed 5kg (30km biking a day, burning 1000 calories), I’d have my laughing gear round this stuff. In a flash. Tempted at the Mainzer Kaffemanufaktur…
> Where are you going with that cake?” Scene from the Villa Musica hoolie last year. Tilt-shifted with this here thingie
> Double espresso and a blueberry muffin at the (average age 17…) Kiddie Café Annabatterie café on the Gartenfeldplatz. Definitely worth a visit.
> The guy at the Kaiser organic bakery stand on the market spun what sounded like a pretty tall tale yesterday. “Essener bread has nothing to do with Essen (Ed:…
> Mrs Frank the Potter hails from southern Germany where tradition is Alive and Well. Every year at Christmas, she bakes a batch of cinnamon cookies using moulds with traditional…
> As if all this bloody white stuff wasn’t bad enough, “Wintaro”, a local restaurant, has to rub it in. “Pork fillet , potato SNOW* and salad” *Really just mashed…
I do rate Interieur 251, the restaurant at the Arp Museum in (NQM) Rolandseck, but their prices sometimes make my eyes water. 0.15l of their (admittedly quite excellent) apple…
Our Christmas Stollen each contain a lump of butter about the size of a baby’s head. And they’re guaranteed polybrominated diphenyl ether-free, which is more than you can say for…
> …an Eiswein. Another NQM moment. The Eiswein monument is a mere hsaaj down river in Bingen, opposite the Niederwalddenkmal (in the far distance, commemorating the creation of the German…
> ..just doesn’t have that …..RING…. to it…. What the Mason jar is to American housewives, the Weck jar is to German Hausfrauen. Or French ménagère for that matter. Johann…
> Wikipedia sez: The word walnut derives from Old English wealhhnutu, literally “foreign nut”, wealhwealh is akin to the terms Welsh and Vlach; see Walha and History of the term…
> Mr and Mrs jb enter the Annabatterie café on the Gartenfeldplatz in Mainz. Median age moves 2 data points to the right. Mean age moves infinitesimally from 23 to…
> Quince jelly at the market
> We (Ms jb, actually) discovered the Kühling-Gillot winery in Bodenheim (hsaajfm) sometime back in the late 1980s. There was an ad in the local rag announcing the opening –…
> I always though “olive green” was like …..greener? Signora Anna on the market told me how to preserve olives. First, whack your olive with a hammerNext, put it in…
> Gerry Rafferty – Baker St. Good album. Sitting outside (well, actually, yes. In Mallorca. 22ºC. Sunshine. Eat your hearts out) is definitely something to look forward to. But then…
Here I am, stuck in Meg and Ben territory (and being studiously ignored by Meg, who should perhaps check her cellphone..) suffering blue skies, 18ºC and sitting in the Boatshed…
> ….Hefeweizen. At the Alte Patrone, a one-time munitions dump for the circle of fortifications around Mainz dating back to the late 19th C. Then again, maybe 8 in the…
> Now, would you happen to be pro- or antisecco? I’m definitely for the former, especially if it’s from Matthias Wolf’s vineyard in Lörzweiler…
> Great crop of wild mushrooms this year. Out in the hills on the bike today and found loads. Checked in my edible mushroom book and they all look pretty…
> You can do 2 things. You can go to one of the ubiquitous bakery chains and buy a roll with the consistency of cirro-cumulus enveloping a slice of plastic…
> Joceline Dimbleby calls them “Better-than-ever Chocolate Brownies” Not much to add to that. Platter by Jane Hamlyn Raspberries by jb Recipe here
> …and then there are blackberry muffins. Blackberry muffins look quite normal on the outside. So do blackberry muffins. It’s when you open them up and find that they consist…
> It’s that time of year again. Axel Schmitt’s legendary Summer Festival in (NQM) Ober-Hilbersheim. Read all about it here
> I can’t help it. I can’t waste food, I can’t throw away seedlings that I can make grow into plants for someone to use and I can’t watch fruit…
> …stands for échalote. Or expensive bloody onions. This lot will put you back €6 a kilo. Worth it though….
> There are 3 4 ways of making Grüner Sosse, the salsa verde Buy it at the delicatessen (Not really…) Grow and make it yourself (Obviously) Buy the herbs nicely…
> Years ago, my Mate the Professor gave me a bottle of this wine and it took me yonks to trace it back to its source. And by one of…
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