All Recipes

I was wondering if you guys know about allrecipes.com. I've been using it for awhile now to find new stuff, and I love it. Whenever I get into a rut, or want to make something I don't have a recipe for, I just bop over and click away. It great fun.

A little Danish trivia for you guys: We have popcorn and peanut butter over here. One can even get Betty Crocker cake mixes, if one knows where to look and is willing to pay $4. What we don't have is unsweetened baking cocoa squares (I've found a work around for that), condensed milk (although I've heard you can buy it at a bazaar outside of town where the immigrants shop- I haven't found it), chocolate chips (Thanks, Heather for the HUGE supply awhile back! Now I use smashed cocolate bars, and it's so yummy! ), and pretzels (besides the sticks)

. . . oh, yes, and condensed cream of mushroom soup. . . .one more: Jello! There is absolutely NO Jello in Denmark, which I find hysterical. (I brought some home from Christmas, and I'm trying to decide who to freak out with this not-quite-real-food -product. It's funny what can freak people out.)

I find those odd things not to have, but that's the way it goes. We do quite well without.

I was in a Tops market over Christmas, and it was like entering a dream: I was drooling over the veggies! The fruit even smelled like fruit! I was running around like a nit-wit . . . there were so many things for under $5! If I'd gone to Wegman's I might have passed out.

I've been thinking lately that the prices I remembered were figments of my imagination. I have a new appreciation for the awe the refugees used to feel when I took them grocery shopping for the first time. It took me two hours to food shop yesterday, and the stores were out of several things, so I need to go out again today, to a store farther away. I can't imagine how anyone manages here with kids.