I brought the ingredients for chocolate chip cookies…the ingrediens that German grocery stores do not have (Vanilla extract, chocolate chips, and brown sugar) then I made the cookies today…let’s just say that German families LOVE home made chocolate chip cookies…I must admit they were quite good. So I guess that is a good thing to do if you visit another country…make chocolate chip cookies.
Also, I am really having a hard time getting used to having my biggest meal of the day be served around 1:00 pm. Germans eat at the wrong times for Americans. Breakfast is smaller, usually toast with jam or rolls with jam. Lunch is served around 1 or 1:30…and it is quite the meal. Schnitzel, potatoes, and green beans, sauce. Dinner is sandwiches (meat, a darker bread, cheese, wieners, and BEER) Either way…you eat the biggest meal in the afternoon…it is so strange for me. I know it is healthier but cmon..6pm is Potroast time!
Lesson Learned since last time: Germans like Chocolate Chip Cookies, Lunch isn’t always a sandwich!
Hi there,
well done. CCC are the first thing I get whenever I visit the states.
By the way: when is your stay in Munich? I’m busy setting up my (actually “our”) blog about what to do in town, so mayby you could be the first subscriber… and critic. Nothing like feedback to finetune things.
Anyway. Enjoy your stay.
Michael
I had no idea that those things weren’t easily available in German stores. Interesting!
I think I’d do well with the German schedule. I dont eat breakfast often, and dinner isn’t that big a deal for me … (so naturally I’m usually starving at about lunch time.)
- Dave
http://www.davidmeade.com
Did they dip the cookies in beer?
I know, it’s strange to me too that things as common to us as the ingredients for chocolate chip cookies aren’t there. My family is from Germany, but I haven’t been there since we left when I was 3. Last summer my cousin came and spent some time with us here in the states, and we discovered he didn’t know what rootbeer soda was. So we had an evening of gorging rootbeer floats. Good times…. Have fun on the rest of your trip.
I’m making german cookies for a school project. I dip mine in vanilla extract and sugar. it is very good. I’m not sure if i can eat at the times the germans do.