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Ich habe für das erste Mal dieses Jahr Spargel gefunden. Bei Aldi. Die waren schweineteuer, aber ich habe sie gleich mitgenommen. Es gab also heute Spargel mit Carbonara Sauce überbacken, und das Kochwasser haben wir für eine Suppe aufgehoben. Es war äußerst lecker; wert des Tennisarms den ich wahrscheinlich entwickelt habe beim Schälen von einem Kilo Spargel!

Also, morgen ist Muttertag, so habe ich Vanilleküchlein gebacken (in einer Muffin-Backform), mit Schokoladen-ganache gefüllt und einer grünen Marzipanblume in der Mitte. Die sind mit rosa Fondantguß überzogen (wenigstens denke ich, daß dies Cake melts im Grunde Fondant sind) und mit einer Zuckerblume und weißer Schokolade dekoriert. Fotos morgen, ich schwöre!

My apologies to those who don't speak German. I'm too tired to look up all those cooking-specific words in the dictionary. Tomorrow there will be pictures about the mini cakes I made for Mothers' Day and about the two somewhat steampunk-style cards I made. I basically spent the day in the kitchen and am at least 75 per cent dead right now. *g*

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Date: 2020-05-02 07:01 pm (UTC)
meathiel: (Celtic K)
From: [personal profile] meathiel
Wir hatten noch keinen Spargel diesen Frühling, weil er hier auch immer noch schweineteuer ist. Liegt daran, dass die Erntehelfer aus Osteuropa nicht kommen durften.

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Date: 2020-05-02 07:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Das kann ich mir vorstellen. Ich hörte (als ich noch in Deutschland war), daß die Helfer größtenteils aus Polen kamen.

Die sind schweineteuer auch hier, aber der Saison ist so kurz, daß wir sie uns immer gönnen. Für die vier oder fünf Male die wir sie kochen...

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Date: 2020-05-02 07:10 pm (UTC)
meathiel: (Celtic K)
From: [personal profile] meathiel
Inzwischen Rumänen und Bulgaren. Die Polen machen Buchhaltung für deutsche Firmen! 😁

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Date: 2020-05-02 07:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] motodraconis.livejournal.com
Ich war überrascht, wie viel davon ich verstehen konnte. Vielleicht wird beim Kochen und Schreiben über Essen einfaches Deutsch verwendet.

Sadly... I cannot write or speak German any more, I just lapse into Norwegian, so I had to use Google to write my comment and I've been struggling to make out if I have written gibberish,

Also... German uses longer sentences and more words to say things than English, and especially Norwegian, which is very pithy by comparison.
Edited Date: 2020-05-02 07:12 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2020-05-02 08:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Na ja, es sind dreißig Jahre vergangen...

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Date: 2020-05-02 08:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
No, it was all right what you wrote. But again, understanding a foreign language is always easier than actually speaking it.

Unless it is German literature, of course, where a single sentence can take two or three pages, and by the time you reached the end you've forgotten what was at the beginning. I'm fairly good at the everyday language but I was sweating blood at uni when making my diploma as a language teacher because they made us read that very literary stuff (including Goethe's novels) that caused me unbearable headaches.

Cooking and baking vocabulary is easy. Especially when one has been using German recipes for decades. ;))

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Date: 2020-05-02 08:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] motodraconis.livejournal.com
It is a delight and a huge frustration to me that when I hear Germans speaking I can (almost) understand what they are saying* but then I am desperate to talk to them but after the first 3 words I just lapse into Norwegian. If I can conquer Norsk, I hope to return to German, though I may have to get my French better first. (I'm saving Hungarian for my retirement, in theory.)

I doubt I could ever read anything more complex than a simple Graphic Novel though, certainly no German literature.

* Providing it's Hochdeutsch.

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Date: 2020-05-02 08:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Whereas I need to see English in written form to understand it. *g*

I remember when [livejournal.com profile] espresso_addict and [livejournal.com profile] mr_ea visited quite a few years ago. They had different accents, and there came the moment when I almost asked them if they could, please, write down what they wanted to tell me.

But yeah, German dialects are a hard thing, too. I'm really, really good at German, but even I have to listen very carefully when they're not speaking Hochdeutsch. Even though the German we speak in the family (or rather spoke with Grandpa) is closer to what people speak in Austria.

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Date: 2020-05-02 09:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com
Here you go:

found asparagus for the first time this year. At Aldi. They were more expensive, but I took them with me right away. So today there was asparagus baked with carbonara sauce, and we picked up the cooking water for a soup. It was extremely tasty; worth the tennis arm I probably developed when peeling a kilo of asparagus!

So, tomorrow is Mother's Day, so I baked vanilla cakes (in a muffin baking dish), filled with chocolate ganache and a green marzipan flower in the middle. They are covered with pink fondant nut (at least I think these are actually fondant) and decorated with a sugar flower and white chocolate. Photos tomorrow, I swear!

What a nice surprise for your Mum tomorrow and the asparagus sounds tasty.

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Date: 2020-05-02 09:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Thank you for the translation!

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Date: 2020-05-03 03:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wanderingmogwai.livejournal.com
Mmmmm...! Sounds like someone is in fora nice Mother's Day :)

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Date: 2020-05-03 01:36 pm (UTC)
artemis10002000: (BB-8 - the babe)
From: [personal profile] artemis10002000
Yay für den ersten Spargel! Wir hatten das erste und bisher einzige Mal Spargel vor hmmm vielleicht 1-2 Wochen? Irgendwann nach Ostern jedenfalls (eigentlich hatten wir das als Osteressen geplant, aber da gab es keinen) Als wir ihn dann gekauft hatten war er überraschenderweise gar nicht mal so teuer aber ich glaube, das war einfach Glück. Einmal vorher hatten wir welchen im Laden gesehen aber der war uns zu teuer gewesen. Hatten dann grünen genommen, der viel billiger war. Das war meine erste Erfahrung mit grünem Spargel, der auch lecker war, aber was ganz anderes als weißer Spargel. Nicht als Ersatz dafür geeignet.

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Date: 2020-05-03 05:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Yeah, Mum loved her cookies, even though they were far from perfect. *points at next entry*

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Date: 2020-05-03 05:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Ich habe mal grünen Spargel probiert, mag ihn aber nicht so wirklich. Wenn schon Spargel, dann aber weiß, bitte.

Übrigens, weißt du, daß ich mal Fanfic geschrieben habe, inspiriert bei Spargel?

Behold Elf-root (https://archiveofourown.org/works/4385351/chapters/9954728)!

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Date: 2020-05-03 05:29 pm (UTC)
artemis10002000: (BB-8 - the babe)
From: [personal profile] artemis10002000
Ich weiß, die habe ich auch gelesen und sehr genossen!

Ich mochte den grünen Spargel aber zumindest in der Pfanne gebraten erinnerte er mich mehr an grüne Bohnen als an Spargel.

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Date: 2020-05-04 07:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] manue7a.livejournal.com
Ha, that was surprising and fun!

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Date: 2020-05-04 09:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Well, I spent thirty or so of my working years as a German teacher and translator; plus I started learning the language from my Grandpa around the age of three, so I'm a lot more comfortable with it than with English.

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Date: 2020-05-04 11:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mirasaui.livejournal.com
Six more days until Mother's day here. Hope you and your Mum had a lovely day!

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Date: 2020-05-05 06:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Thank you, we did. :)

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