ROOTS & WINGS

#1091874

June 21, 2025 at 1:52pm

Actually, these weren't the next Yum. Mind you, I didn't know what the next Yum would be at the time. BUT: when I realized that the weather's going to be more severe than announced around mid-week, I changed plans, and made THESE. So what could a plan-changing situation be, you wonder? Well, temperature nearing normal body temperature for example. On the weekend weather frogs threaten with up to 37°C / 98°F in some areas (namely one where I live ). U... [Read more]

#1091628

June 21, 2025 at 1:47pm

Ironic, eh, a cake with a sour-ish veg? Also, you could call this food that I did avoid where I could for years, on either side of my mother's death in 2017... as it would trigger me. I'm not badmouthing here, as my mother said herself that she was the kind of person that shall not be let loose on unsuspecting children. Accordingly, she did very effectively eff me up in the head (and sabotaged my treatment!), "passing on" her bipolar disorder (and s... [Read more]

#1090999

June 9, 2025 at 12:13pm

This is a real "root" as I've eaten this dish since I... can think – and so since my parents and I moved to the border region between Freiburg / Black Forest on the German side and Alsace on the French side because of my dad's work. (Before we'd lived in my birth town Cologne.) One spit over the Rhein, and you're in Alsace. Okay, their "root" dish is the Flammkuchen (which we ate/made amply, too ), but Alsace borders Lorraine, and so you... [Read more]