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WORT DES TAGES
der Adept - adept, initiate; someone versed in the occult, wizard, alchemist; disciple, apprentice (philos./pol.)

Der Adept des Assassinen (Buchtitel, 1995) - Assassin's Apprentice (book title)

Related:
die Adeptin - [female] adept, initiate; someone versed in the occult

MORE> False Friends/False Cognates in German and English~
http://german.about.com/library/blfalsef.htm

Or baked milk xD It's the simplest and more dolicious dessert I've tried in my life *---* Really, i love it and I would prefer it over a decadent chocolate pie with ice cream or anything like that! I don't have pictures 'couse it doesn't look cute... in fact it looks awful xD It would look life flan or creembrule if you do it on individual pots, but I did it in a cake pan xD

Leche asada

6 eggs
2 cups milk
1/2 can condensed milk
1 1/2 cup sugar
2 cups milk

Preheat oven to high temperature. Beat the eggs with 1/2 cup sugar, add the condensed milk and mix together. Add the milk and mix well. Put 1 cup sugar in a saucepan with 1/3 cup water and let it boil until you get a golden color. Pour the caramel in the mould yo'll use and then pur the milk in them, put them on the oven and let them cook for 10 minutes, then put the oven on medium temperature and let them 10 more minutes. Let cool in the oven, refrigerate about 1 hour and enjoy =)

It's really simple and delicious, I hope you try it.

Now I have pics =)!!!





This time I made them sugar free, using splenda and topping them  with sugar free strawberry jam. They're yummy and healthier now.

This is a long shot but I am hoping to talk to a group of year 6's (namely 35 x 11 year olds) about South African food. As part of this I'd like them to get involved in cooking some yummy treats! I've found a few recipes that involve making coconut ice (easy is vital) and biscuits / cookies with apricot jam and coconut.

Any ideas would be fantastic!
TIA

Okay, so I decided to make a pan of apple crisp, since I wanted to do something with this package of pre-sliced granny smith apples we bought this weekend. It was extremely easy, since I used a packaged topping mix.

I peeled and cored the apple slices that still had a core (Motts did a pretty good job for me) and mixed the topping with 5 tbsp of butter like the package told me, but I added two handfuls of chopped walnuts and a bit of allspice and nutmeg to the apples (just to make it taste less... packaged). Baked at 375 for 25-30 minutes and TA-DA!

( pics under cut )
I wish I had vanilla ice cream. ;_;

Around holidays at work, people always bring in the most amazing baked treats for each other.  But for the last 4 years, there's one goofy kid who's always left out.  He can't have anything with dairy or soy in it, and no one yet has come across a recipe that wouldn't kill our little buddy.  So I call upon you, genius goody-makers of this cummunity, help me satisfy my coworker's allergy-ridden sweet tooth without causing his untimely death!

Much love and appreciation :]

A popular German side dish that goes well with holiday foods.
Personally, I'm obsessed with the stuff and like trying different recipes. :)





Apfelrotkohl
(Red Cabbage with Apples)

1 medium head red cabbage, cored and sliced
2 large tart apples, peeled and sliced
1 medium sweet onion, sliced and separated into rings
1 1/2 cups water
1 cup cider vinegar
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon salt
6 whole peppercorns
2 whole allspice
2 whole cloves
1 bay leaf
2 teaspoons cornstarch
2 teaspoons cold water

In a Dutch oven, toss cabbage, apples and onion rings. Add water, vinegar, sugar, butter and salt. Place peppercorns, allspice, cloves and bay leaf on a double thickness of cheesecloth; bring up corners and tie with kitchen string to form a bag. Add to Dutch oven. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 1-1/4 hours. Discard spice bag. In a small bowl, combine cornstarch and cold water, stir until smooth and stir into cabbage mix. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 1-2 minutes or until thickened.

It's usually served as a side with beef, goose or duck. Enjoy. :)

WORT DES TAGES
die Ächtung (pl. die Ächtungen) - outlawing, proscription, ridding; ostracism

Die Ächtung von Gewalt und die Vermittlung von gegenseitiger Achtung auf der Basis grundlegender Werte sei indes nicht nur ein Thema für die Schule, sondern für die ganze Gesellschaft, schrieb der Bundespräsident. -
Getting rid of violence and encouraging mutual respect based on basic values is meanwhile not only a topic for the school, but for all of society, wrote the German president.

Note: This is a good example of the importance of the Umlaut in German vocabulary.

Related:
die Achtung - respect, esteem; attention, regard
bei aller Achtung - with all due respect
Achtung! - Watch out!/Careful!/Attention! [milary]/Your attention please!

MORE> Confusing Word Pairs in German~
http://german.about.com/library/blconfus_pairs.htm

I just received a whole bunch of not-so-fresh oranges and I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for what I could bake with them. They're still good, just getting to the end of their freshness and I know I can't eat them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hey! Thanks for for all the input I got on making a shortbread crust on a pecan pie. And here's my results... oops...


Well, that didn't last long. I used a slightly non-standard recipe (which was gutsy since I've NEVER baked one before, of any kind. I'll give my notes from doing this one, too, for the next time I make it or you might make it, so you have a little easier time than I did.
 
( Recipe follows... )

Baked some peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip squares on a sunday afternoon, and I've got a surprise for you!

( Who doesn't love Peanut butter? )

hello all!  first post here ^_^  normally i don't bake at home, only at school, but we had 18 egg yolks from making angel food cake and white cake that i needed to make something with egg yolks

i really wanted to make else but i am a poor college student so luckily i found a recipe that had what i had at home

( cookies ahoy )
also i've never tagged a post before so i have no idea what to do XD..thanks

I've always wanted to make this, and my fiance has mentioned that he hasn't had one in a long time, so for Halloween I decided to make it. I used a recipe from this one book I bought, called The Essential Baking Cookbook. Enjoy.



( Recipe and more pics )

My friend was in a horrible car accident months ago. She's still in the hospital and is very slowly trying to recover. It's not even guaranteed that she will survive this. Many fundraisers are being held to raise money for her hospital bills. I'm trying to stay involved with them raising as much as I can. The reason I'm posting this here is because in a couple weeks there will be a very large bake sale where all the proceeds will go towards her. I've never been involved in bake sales before so I was wondering what you guys think would be good sellers there. I'd like to keep the recipes as basic as possible but still want them to stand out. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! I'm not sure if it matters, but I'm fairly certain that over half of the buyers will be of the "elderly" crowd.

Thank you guys!

Okay so this is a really weird question, but I have a whole bottle of liquid glucose sitting on my desk, rotting away because it was an impulse buy :P Any suggestions from all you pro-bakers as to what to do with it? 

Thanks much in advance!

I've been trying to bake as much as possible recently, despite not having any time. I've also been trying out new recipes rather than the usual ones I know taste nice. In the last week I've made vegan biscotti and rosemary and orange biscuits. These are two things I wouldn't normally make unless I felt like doing something slightly different. Biscotti is mostly eggs in my mind and rosemary belongs with potatoes. Despite this, they both turned out rather nice. The biscotti isn't anything like biscotti made with eggs but that's too be expected and the rosemary and orange biscuits a somewhat unexpected combination (at least for me!) They're still nice though!

( vegan biscotti and buttery rosemary biscuits! )

Testing out one of the Presidential Cookies on my blog HERE. Check it out for some more drool-worthy pictures!
Made with oats, chocolate chips, pecans, and coconut.

( Recipe also behind cut.. )

Berlin Marks 20th Anniversary of Wall's Fall

World leaders, dignitaries and thousands of visitors are in Berlin today to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is a time to remember the past and celebrate the November day in 1989 that changed the future. Despite the rain, crowds gathered at the Bornholm Bridge, the first checkpoint in the Berlin Wall to open the night of November 9, 1989.

The Wall stood for nearly three decades, dividing the city and Germany into East and West. But in the end, protests and peaceful revolutions, such as in Poland, and changes in Moscow brought it down. That led to the reunification of Germany and the end of the Cold War.

In a gesture full of symbolism, Chancellor Angela Merkel crossed from one side to other, accompanied by VIP guests, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, former Polish labor leader and president Lech Walesa, and civil rights activists of 20 years ago.

Mrs. Merkel said meeting here was especially significant. She said there is joy in the possibilities that opened up at this very bridge, noting it was the result of a long struggle against oppression. She thanked Lech Walesa and his Solidarity Labor movement in Poland and Mikhail Gorbachev, the reformist leader in Moscow. Both paved the way for what would happen in Germany in 1989.

World leaders and dignitaries have gathered to join in the 20th anniversary celebrations, which include open air concerts, fireworks, and the symbolic collapse of a wall of brightly painted oversize dominoes. The dominoes have been set up to run for one and a half kilometers in an area where the Wall once stood, and late Monday they will be toppled - much like the Wall was two decades ago. Organizers of the anniversary events say they want the festivities to connect with ordinary people - to show that it was people power, with the help of reform-minded political leaders, that brought down the Wall and changed the course of history. Source: http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-11-09-voa28.cfm

A look back...

Öffnung der Mauer 1989 am Reichstag
(Opening of the Berlin Wall 1989 - with English subtitles)