Dairy Products
Tonight for dinner I made Laura's Macaroni and Cheese Deluxe, a recipe I have from Laura Petix. As always, it was delicious. What a great recipe. I am happy to report that it tastes just the same with German ingredients as with American ones. Thank goodness they have cottage cheese here (Hutten Käse).
It's a very good fall recipe... but maybe I'd better not say that too loudly... some people don't like the fall very much...
Speaking of dairy products (that's one of those "evergreen" topics, in my book), they certainly have a plethora of them here. In the dairy case you find almost everything we have in the states, plus some. Yogurt is very popular here and they make it in more than one consistency -- there's a thinner kind for drinking.
They also have something called quark, which I have never come across in the US. (In the dictionary it's translated as "curds.") It's something like a thick yogurt -- thick enough to spread -- but they also use it for baking in recipes where we might use cheese at home. Like for a cheese danish, or cheesecake. Actually, whatever kind of cheese goes into cheese danishes in the US tastes quite a lot like quark does here. (However, it's not cream cheese. They have that here too, as an American import.)
You can also get fresh cheeses -- unpasteurized cheeses -- which I think are illegal in the US. Although maybe that is not true. I would like some contraband cheese, please!
Milk comes in little one-quart cartons (okay, okay, liter cartons) or bottles, and the standard here is still full milk. The lowest fat you can get in the fresh milk is 1.5%. I think you may be able to get lower in the shelf milk (UHT milk, which we do have in the US but it is much more popular here) but Marty and I both prefer the fresh milk.
The lack of lowfat dairy products goes far beyond the milk, though. Even the yogurt is difficult to find in lowfat varieties. And nonfat yogurt, which is such a staple in American grocery stores, appears to be nonexistent here. A German friend here told me that many Germans think lowfat dairy products are unhealthy. Which would explain the extreme lack of them.
On the other hand, they do have the sexiest margarine ads I have ever seen. These come courtesy of Lätta Hoch2, a diet margarine. (And the others are here, here, and here.) Enjoy!
Tonight for dinner I made Laura's Macaroni and Cheese Deluxe, a recipe I have from Laura Petix. As always, it was delicious. What a great recipe. I am happy to report that it tastes just the same with German ingredients as with American ones. Thank goodness they have cottage cheese here (Hutten Käse).
It's a very good fall recipe... but maybe I'd better not say that too loudly... some people don't like the fall very much...
Speaking of dairy products (that's one of those "evergreen" topics, in my book), they certainly have a plethora of them here. In the dairy case you find almost everything we have in the states, plus some. Yogurt is very popular here and they make it in more than one consistency -- there's a thinner kind for drinking. They also have something called quark, which I have never come across in the US. (In the dictionary it's translated as "curds.") It's something like a thick yogurt -- thick enough to spread -- but they also use it for baking in recipes where we might use cheese at home. Like for a cheese danish, or cheesecake. Actually, whatever kind of cheese goes into cheese danishes in the US tastes quite a lot like quark does here. (However, it's not cream cheese. They have that here too, as an American import.)
You can also get fresh cheeses -- unpasteurized cheeses -- which I think are illegal in the US. Although maybe that is not true. I would like some contraband cheese, please!
Milk comes in little one-quart cartons (okay, okay, liter cartons) or bottles, and the standard here is still full milk. The lowest fat you can get in the fresh milk is 1.5%. I think you may be able to get lower in the shelf milk (UHT milk, which we do have in the US but it is much more popular here) but Marty and I both prefer the fresh milk.The lack of lowfat dairy products goes far beyond the milk, though. Even the yogurt is difficult to find in lowfat varieties. And nonfat yogurt, which is such a staple in American grocery stores, appears to be nonexistent here. A German friend here told me that many Germans think lowfat dairy products are unhealthy. Which would explain the extreme lack of them.
On the other hand, they do have the sexiest margarine ads I have ever seen. These come courtesy of Lätta Hoch2, a diet margarine. (And the others are here, here, and here.) Enjoy!
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