lucky you

i wish i could get some tim hortons...none in st louis area

I guess you guys will just have to come visit me!!

Really. Their Boston Creme doughnuts are awesome.

I live in a doghnut free country - can you imagine what I am going through???

what???? that is crazy..... but you have strudel... mm yum

my grandma made really good strudel.. I miss it ... mm and her plum platz...

I really love the sour cream glazed donuts there. Yummy! And a butter caramel ice cap!


Julie - on the bright side no donuts = less fattening food available to eat!

tim horton's ///worth a drive

the last couple of times I went to Timmy's the doughnuts weren't actually that great anymore..

then I heard that they had stopped making them on site and had them shipped in ...

I do love their soup and sandwiches though.. yum yum...

Strudel is not very popular over here - it's just something you can get in a restaurant for dessert...and they always use puff pastry instead of the real strudel stuff. My grandma used to make it the proper way - very yum!

Plum Platz? Never heard of it! Is it something like Buchteln (Buchteln are a sweet dish made of yeast dough, filled with jam, and baked in the oven. The origin of the Buchteln is the region of Bohemia (todays Czech Republic), but as the Buchteln are a part of the Austrian cuisine for many years, they are also seen for the Austrians as a original Austrian dish)?



Yeah, I guess you are right. But I am sure there is a fat and carb free donut version out there somewhere in the States

Plum platz has a kind of crust and then cut up plums (you can use other fruit too) and you mix together some sugar and flour and butter and crumble that over top...

Ohhh Pflaumenstreusel! Yum!! Like a plum crumble on dough...

I do fancy some now

Did your Grandma have German/ Austrian roots (well, she must have, obviously!)?

yeah, my grandmas was so good..

I wasn't really close with this grandma but her cooking was soo good.. I really wish she would have let me get closer to her so I couldn't have learned some of her recipes.. oh well

my grandma was born in Russia but she moved to Germany, I think when she was still a child.... but then she eventually moved to Canada...

do you guys have New year's Cookies..(fritters, I guess) my grandma made those too.. it was dough she made with raisins in it and you fry them in oil and then when they are cooked you throw them into powdered/icing sugar... mm so good...

Those are the ones we have, but only for carneval. They are usually filled with raspberry or apricot jam.

Your grandma's history sounds very interesting!

lol.. those look like doughnuts .... we have something very similar to that....

the ones my grandma made were more like fritters i guess... not sure why they were called cookies when they were more like doughnuts....

they looked kind of like this..



yeah my grandma's history was prolly very interesting but she rarely spoke to me.. she had her favourite grandchildren and she made sure we all knew that... luckily my mom's parents more then made up for that... my other grandma loved all of her grandchildren equally.. although I was a little above the rest because I was her oldest grandchild but she never held that over her other grandkid's heads ..




oh how about pffernus... my grandma and great aunt would make them at Christmas time and give us a big bag of them... they were this molasses type cookie but it was coated with this hard white icing stuff... we looked forward to them every year....

I have a recipe I make that is somewhat similar.. mom even said mine taste better.. they are her favourite she said... mine are just coated with icing sugar.. I have no idea how they got the hard coating on theres.. my grandma did give me the recipe for them but it was in German and from what my dad could translate on it it didn't even sound like the right recipe

sorry I have all these childhood memories of my grandma's cooking coming back to me ...lol

I think Pfeffernuss is some kind of gingerbread cookie. The hard icing is just made from icing sugar mixed with a little bit of lemon juice, I would guess. I must admit, I have never tried them. Ok, I just googled it Pfeffernüsse

What other things did she make? I enjoy being reminded of all those traditional German things!

Shame that she was not able to love all her grandchildren equally Well, on the other hand, I really didn't like my Dad's Mom (the one who made the Strudel and Buchteln) and always told her that I liked Mom's Mom waaaaaaay better. Kids can be so mean! She was a good woman though, she was Oscar Schindler's secretary for while (they grew up in the same city, Zwittau) and she had a few Jewish couples stay with her in her house after they were "rescued". She passed away 1994 and I never even had the chance to say good bye (also, her passing away did not touch me at all - not big an Dad's family, as you can tell).

i never told my grandma that I liked the other grandma best...

she made this really yummy caramel type pudding every Christmas... mm, can't think of anything else right now...

I didn't get to tell neither of my grandmas goodbye... well, with this one it really wouldn't have mattered because she had gone senile in the end.. I saw her once a few years before she died and she didn't really remember me.. she said she remembered my parents having me but she didn't know me or something like that...

my other grandma i didn't know she had died until the day of her funeral when I got an email from my sister-in-law where she said "oh by the way your grandma died last Thursday and the funeral is today (Monday)" I was so mad and upset.. she was my favourite grandma ..

later on I found out that my grandma had called my parents and told them to come down because she knew she was dying (she had kidney failure in both kidneys) so they got there about a week or two before she actually died.. my mom was in a tizzy because this was her mom and she told my sister -in-law to contact me... my parents did try calling me and sending me an email when they got to where my grandma was (she lived about 1000 miles from them) but nothing went through... I was like it took my sis-in-law over 2 weeks to contact me.. she said she didn't have my number and they had no internet at home etc... but she could have found someway to contact me in 2 weeks... anyways, I was ticked.and very upset that I hadn't got the chance to say goodbye to my grandma.....

Oh dear, what a sad story! I would have been so upset!! There is just no excuse for that!!

nope there isn't.... if I had news like that I would have done everything in my power to get the news to the person...

Yeah, as you do! Some people are just unbelievable!!!

sad

boo

Hooray for donuts!

amen to that

krispy kreme!!

Just got a dozen last night on our way home. It makes me wonder, is it only here in Springfield, MO where Krispy Kreme gives free taste the moment you stepped in or is it everywhere?

been to Krispy Kreme once and I don't see what the big deal about it is...

there is this Chinese Fast food place around here that has the best donuts I have ever tasted this place sells, Chinese food, fried chicken, burgers and donuts... I have tried the Chinese food and the donuts and both of them rock

krispy kreme ftw !




u can't resist the smell when they're baking fresh doughnuts.. yum.. u have to stop and get a dozen lolol

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Hmm, yummy!

Oink!

damn them, they did that to spite me/.//////

they knew i was muslim and said, that we could go the donut hamburger with bacon....

*Dean, it's kosher. Mr. Porky's brother-in-law owns a turkey farm. He's churning out turkey rashers on the side. Don't tell the great unwashed, tho, OK?*

Mmmm, scrummy bacon doughnuts!

oh, i am such a chopf##k

My husband was just saying last night that everything is better with bacon. Bacon donuts seem OK to me, but is there peanut butter on top, too?

bacon rules!!

that looks like some kind of icing/frosting....

Jerky flavoured! Heaven!

I hope it's filled with onion jelly!

yum...onion jelly

doin' the bump....much easier now that I've got an extra huge azz from eating bacon donuts

Brother Dean, where art thou?

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Thanks for the invite. And the update!

thankfully, sister amber was able to have influence on our 72 year old male judge..we are cleared...but must never be seen packing a cucumber

You crack me up. I just love the random stories you make up. If you should ever write a book, I will be the first one to buy it.


btw - just saw it on the menu, Donuts at the canteen for desert today!!

alright, eat at least 4 sister julie

I resisted and didn't eat one!

wow...what a good girl

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