My Playground

I thought you might like to see where all the action takes place.  I’m renting a fully-furnished apartment in Berlin, which thankfully has a well-stocked kitchen. Aside from a few santoku-style knives, a grill pan, and some wooden cutting boards, it had just about everything I needed going in. Well, nearly.  The two-dozen metal canisters [...]

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Midnight (Chocolate Chip) Cookies

Guess how these cookies got their name? First, I started making them at 10PM, only to realize that I was out of eggs and short on chocolate, thus requiring a run to the corner store.  Second, I’d forgotten to factor in the one-hour chilling time for the dough.  They were finally done around 12:30AM.  But [...]

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Postcard from Berlin: Turkey Cutlets with Mushroom Cream Sauce

Surprise! I’ve changed continents. Here’s hoping you’ll enjoy my dispatches from my new home, Berlin—where every trip to the grocery store is an adventure, the produce is fresh and cheap, and the cashiers are surly but move at the speed of light. Like so many others, today’s recipe started with one irresistible seasonal ingredient: It’s [...]

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RIP Döner Kebab Creator

A moment of silence to remember the creator of the mouth-watering street snack, the Döner Kebab:    Credit: The Local A German news site, The Local, reports: In sad news for anyone who has been drunk and hungry at 2 am, the man who invented the döner kebab sandwich nearly four decades ago in Berlin has passed away. Mahmut Aygün, [...]

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