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Today on bad idea theater
15 Sep 2012 10:21 amI was eating a caramel apple cake? cobbler? of some sort at Cup A Joe (Hsbo) this morning and drinking a decaf cassia mocha, when I thought, "Hey, if I had any sort of business skills and wanted to deal with the visas and paperwork and shit, I could open an American bakery in Berlin. I'd sell authentic American baked goods, like chocolate chip cookies and crumbles, crisps, brown bettys, and cobblers, as opposed to bizarre* German interpretations of such. But damn that'd be a lot of work. And who knows if it would even be successful! Germans tend to find American baked goods too sweet."
But I have a ton of great recipes for things like that. Also, it's fall, so I'm all BAKED APPLES AND CINNAMON AND BAKED PEARS AND CARAMEL AND YUM, and there's nothing nicer than a hot apple crisp with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on it. (Except maybe hot spiced apple cider.)
Though some of the baked fruit desserts remind me of German desserts like apple cake or plum cake.
Ooh, and around Thanksgiving, there would be pumpkin pie & pecan pie & chocolate pecan pie.
Clearly, what I need is a German friend with a) money and b) restaurant-running skills so I can be the ideas & recipes person.
*When I was in Marburg in college, I walked past a bakery on my way somewhere else, and they had this display of ... muffins? with little American flag toothpicks sticking out of them. I was curious, so I bought one. It was a white not-quite-cake, not-quite-muffin with a big glob of chocolate pudding inside. I can't say I've ever had that sort of thing here.
Though that wasn't as horribly disappointing as the "hush puppies" they served in the hospital cafeteria in Oregon during my residency. Oh god those were disgusting. Dry and flavorless and yuck. If you want southern food, you need to run it by a southerner.
But I have a ton of great recipes for things like that. Also, it's fall, so I'm all BAKED APPLES AND CINNAMON AND BAKED PEARS AND CARAMEL AND YUM, and there's nothing nicer than a hot apple crisp with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on it. (Except maybe hot spiced apple cider.)
Though some of the baked fruit desserts remind me of German desserts like apple cake or plum cake.
Ooh, and around Thanksgiving, there would be pumpkin pie & pecan pie & chocolate pecan pie.
Clearly, what I need is a German friend with a) money and b) restaurant-running skills so I can be the ideas & recipes person.
*When I was in Marburg in college, I walked past a bakery on my way somewhere else, and they had this display of ... muffins? with little American flag toothpicks sticking out of them. I was curious, so I bought one. It was a white not-quite-cake, not-quite-muffin with a big glob of chocolate pudding inside. I can't say I've ever had that sort of thing here.
Though that wasn't as horribly disappointing as the "hush puppies" they served in the hospital cafeteria in Oregon during my residency. Oh god those were disgusting. Dry and flavorless and yuck. If you want southern food, you need to run it by a southerner.
