Ok, so after all that excitement last weekend in which I didn't really participate because I didn't understand what all was happening until it was too late, I managed to become ill. I think it might be because the heat in our apartment is not yet on coupled with the fact that Jeremy and I stayed out really late on Saturday chatting it up in our own special German/English cocktail with the cool cats at the Indonesian restaurant near the movie theater where we saw "Tropic Thunder". Ahem. I have been in bed watching the Simpsons for hours, and perhaps my mind is a bit soft-- the perfect moment to compose a blog entry, no?
Which brings me to the curious title of this entry: Chestnuts! This weekend we plucked a few kilos off the grass at the Volksgarten park, and I am still trying to decide what to do with them. I wanted to make this kind of chestnut dessert puree, but now the temptations of chestnut soup, red cabbage with chestnuts, or chestnut chocolate cake are calling out to me. And, thanks to the wonder of the internet, I now know that these babies have to be used fast! They don't keep so long, especially if there is no room in your shoebox freezer because it is completely full of frost. Just moments ago I was tempted by a recipe from the middle ages for "Chicken Broth with Chestnuts" that calls for (besides the aforementioned ingredients) chicken livers, a hard boiled egg, ginger, nutmeg, cardamon, cinnamon, saffron, and cayenne pepper. Whoa.
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I'm sorry that you're not feeling well. Hope that you get better soon! When you see a movie, is it in English or German? Good luck with your chestnuts.
Well, it varies-- usually we watch movies in German on video with German subtitles (double your German/ Double your Fun!). But we went to see Tropic Thunder in the "Original Language Movie Theater", so that we didn't miss any of the scintillating comedy stylings of Ben Stiller. But the movie was actually pretty funny, I have to admit.
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