Category Archives: holidays
Holiday Food: Raclette
Freising Freitag: Operation Christmas
The 2020 Big XII Championship Game
Freising Foto Freitag
Local musicians performing Advent music, 2018. About four-thirty in the afternoon on a sunny day. I’ll be dipping into my sizeable trove of photos I failed to share in a timely manner, to keep Freising Foto Freitag going through our hard lockdown. (Finally sloth pays off!) Leaving your home for… Read more »
Freising Foto Freitag
Thanksgiving 2020
People often ask if I make the usual foods for Thanksgiving. I don’t. 1) It’s a normal weekday here; and 2) the friends and family we would invite to dinner would decline most of the traditional menu–including the bird–for personal dietary reasons. I prefer to make simple meals for just… Read more »
Foodblogging: Leberkäse-Krapfen
Tour de Krapfen 2020
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Krapfenzeit. Simply put, a Krapfen is a deep-fried ball of yeast dough with a fruit or cream filling. In other regions they may be called Berliner, Pfannkuchen, or Ballen, but in Bavaria and Austria they are Krapfen (I have also seen “Grapfen”… Read more »
Freising Freitag: Fasching
Tuesday was Fasching in Bavaria, analogous to Mardi Gras but a bit quieter, at least in Freising (fewer beads, more clowns). Roland had to work, but I had a day off from school, so I wandered down to the Marienplatz for the Kinderfasching, or children’s costume party. Any excuse to… Read more »