If you're looking for a good place to eat thai food- we can definitely recommend Sweet Cocos in Shoeneberg!

We even had our family dinner here!

Taco Salad!

All ingredients found with an affordable price a Lidl!

Lovin' Lidl

Although it ended up being a "rough" fall for my husband and I, I still had the chance to enjoy the delicacies of an autumn market and a Thanksgiving meal!

Here is some open flame and oven roasted cooking:

Although, sadly this is all I have to bake with (even though it's better than no oven at all!)

I still managed to make apple cinnamon muffins and they were delish!

(sorry no post baked pics!)

Now, thanksgiving is a touchy area for an American living in Berlin. Of course, we want to celebrate it. But who with- will it be traditional? Here was a little compromise that I made on Thanksgiving day since we celebrated later on another day.

I was given a box of classic stove top dressing from a traveling friend and made a casserole out of it. First bake chicken or turkey in a casserole dish with cream of mushroom soup (or cream of something else if you don't have mushroom- we used cream of asparagus). Bake the two together then put the stuffing mix on the top. I then made some home made cranberry sauce. It was an awesome very quick compromise!

(Thanks for the stove top delivery!)

Cooking in foreign Berlin

So here's a recap on some things. I feel like I'm finally getting the idea of shopping here. It is such an international country/city that there is so much freedom in cooking international foods. Recently I've been getting in touch with the local Asian market. Also, here's a tip: have a friend that cooks good as well :) Here's Mattheus's sushi masterpiece:

We had a neighbor over to enjoy the sushi feast and everybody was happy.

Well, I know fall is long gone and we are not looking forward to it here- for sure for a long time-

but here are some things I managed to make that turned out pretty good.

Using a local squash I made some squash soup: not too hard to make with a little milk, butter, sugar, garlic, salt and pepper. Topped with walnuts!

And to make sure there was no more leftover hunger I threw in some pre-cooked bulette with lettuce and quark dip. It ended up being a great combination.

Introduction

Hello, I have been living in Berlins for almost two years. When I was newly wed to a German and had just started to live in Berlin there were some things that I found very tricky here. One of them was cooking in Berlin. Being from America I had a background of shopping and cooking there for quite a few years so to be in a new country was a challenge.

I thought I would write this blog to share some things I've cooked or great places to eat for a reasonable price.

So, unless you want to eat a döner everyday for the cheap price of 1.50-3 Euros or a Wurst

then watch this blog- or share your ideas in the comment area!

(don't get me wrong- this is our friendly neighborhood döner guy :)