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x_losA hard start to the morning. Munich's Hauptbahnhof's luggage lockers are excellent, provided they work. A good half of them didn't, and the rest were taken. We roamed the halls for ages, looking for anything that would actually allow us to pay and take a key away with us.
Afterwards we stopped at some hipster cafe to get Katy some yoghurt for a light breakfast. Her yoghurt was pretty, but the fresh fruit was scanty. The vegan apple cake was shit. Not BAD bad, but stodgy, with a soppy bottom. There was a clear construction issue, where without the suspended oil in the dough from butter it's hard to get a seal, so the dough enjoyed very limited protection from the filling's juices. To preserve the structural integrity, the pastry chef went BIG: all stodge.
One way around this is employing vegan suet, but that might not have occurred to them because it's too British an ingredient, and and idk if they even sell it here. Another good solution is doing a Spanish or Italian-inspired dough with olive oil, which you can use in many confectionery applications. This cake was an exemplary display of why I hate most vegan versions of recipes: such conversions are actually quite a serious exercise. Recipes as we have them are a product of LONG collaborative development, and it’s hard for one chef to go it alone. Things that happen to already be vegan generally have a much higher success rate.
I also fought the train station kiosk for my life, securing an Airport Plus group ticket only with great difficulty: the English option on these machines is more like, vague hints. Did this machine's tickets need validated? I couldn't get a validator to take anything my ticket's size, so let's hope not. (I believe it varies by which company operates the machine you get your ticket from.)
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Pasinger Christkindlmarkt:
Pasinger is a suburb of Munich, where I very nearly bought a heavy ceramic bundt tin in an Oxfam (but I would have had to carry it all day, and what if it broke, and €18 is a lot) and also went to their weekend-only Christmas Market in the courtyard of a church. I bought two ornaments from a tiny, ancient crafter woman, one a felt holly ball and one a braided garland of dried plants, each €3.50.
We got to our next destination via bus, so I couldn’t get photos, but there was some great suburban architecture. Gotfried Keller Strasse would reward a google street view.
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Blutenburger Weihnachtsmarkt:
Schloss Blutenburg is a castle dating from 1488. Their Weihnachtsmarkt only happens on this one weekend, and has a nice energy. There's also a little craft fair inside, upstairs.
Had gluhwein with an extra shot of amaretto here, which will make you WAY more intoxicated than you believe it will, so watch that.
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There are many drindl shops of varying quality in the city. I know some of it's Invented Tradition, but I'm super into folk costume.
Afterwards we stopped at some hipster cafe to get Katy some yoghurt for a light breakfast. Her yoghurt was pretty, but the fresh fruit was scanty. The vegan apple cake was shit. Not BAD bad, but stodgy, with a soppy bottom. There was a clear construction issue, where without the suspended oil in the dough from butter it's hard to get a seal, so the dough enjoyed very limited protection from the filling's juices. To preserve the structural integrity, the pastry chef went BIG: all stodge.
One way around this is employing vegan suet, but that might not have occurred to them because it's too British an ingredient, and and idk if they even sell it here. Another good solution is doing a Spanish or Italian-inspired dough with olive oil, which you can use in many confectionery applications. This cake was an exemplary display of why I hate most vegan versions of recipes: such conversions are actually quite a serious exercise. Recipes as we have them are a product of LONG collaborative development, and it’s hard for one chef to go it alone. Things that happen to already be vegan generally have a much higher success rate.
I also fought the train station kiosk for my life, securing an Airport Plus group ticket only with great difficulty: the English option on these machines is more like, vague hints. Did this machine's tickets need validated? I couldn't get a validator to take anything my ticket's size, so let's hope not. (I believe it varies by which company operates the machine you get your ticket from.)
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Pasinger Christkindlmarkt:
Pasinger is a suburb of Munich, where I very nearly bought a heavy ceramic bundt tin in an Oxfam (but I would have had to carry it all day, and what if it broke, and €18 is a lot) and also went to their weekend-only Christmas Market in the courtyard of a church. I bought two ornaments from a tiny, ancient crafter woman, one a felt holly ball and one a braided garland of dried plants, each €3.50.
We got to our next destination via bus, so I couldn’t get photos, but there was some great suburban architecture. Gotfried Keller Strasse would reward a google street view.
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Blutenburger Weihnachtsmarkt:
Schloss Blutenburg is a castle dating from 1488. Their Weihnachtsmarkt only happens on this one weekend, and has a nice energy. There's also a little craft fair inside, upstairs.
Had gluhwein with an extra shot of amaretto here, which will make you WAY more intoxicated than you believe it will, so watch that.
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There are many drindl shops of varying quality in the city. I know some of it's Invented Tradition, but I'm super into folk costume.
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