Oktoberfest Quiche

I am not normally one to go off-book when it comes to recipes. I love following directions. I love rules. I am not a confident cook. However, I had this idea to make an Oktoberfest or German themed quiche to bring to a Fest potluck with the other residents in our apartment building. I searched Pinterest and did not come up with anything exactly like what I had in mind, so I combined ideas from a couple different recipes and came up with my own Oktoberfest Quiche. It is a little risky serving something you have never made or tried before, but it turned out pretty tasty! 

This was my first time wearing my brand new dirndl! I am in love with it and so glad I found it in the sale section. Not only did I save a bunch compared to buying a current season style, but I had my eye on this exact one from my online browsing. Finding it in my size at 50% off made my day! And of course Suzie was a big hit in her "dirndl". 

In addition to my Oktoberfest Quiche, I brought my German Apple Cake. This is one of my favorite things in life and this time I made a salted caramel frosting instead of the typical vanilla buttercream. Yummy! It's not authentically German AT ALL! Germans would never make something that sweet, but it was made with apples we picked in Germany, so that makes it more legitimate to me. 

Beer (or hard cider) cheese

The very first time I made this recipe was for an Oktoberfest party we hosted. I made it again last year for a St. Patrick's Day themed bunco game night. My friend Alysha liked it so much that she has requested it several other times since then. It's so easy to put together and tastes amazing! You can serve it in a fondue pot or right from a stove top sauce pan.

It tastes delicious served with pretzels, bread of any kind, broccoli and green apple slices. Really you could dip old tennis shoes in this and it would taste amazing!

Design: Oktoberfest Bunco extras

Oktoberfest Bunco was a big hit! We enjoyed our German dishes of potato salad, schnitzel, apple strudel and more. Beer flights were consumed. Photos taken and, of course, Bunco played. Sadly I did not walk away with any of the amazing prizes, but it was fun nonetheless.

Because I love when pieces from an event match, I offered to create score cards and such to have that night. I wanted to share them with you!

Score cards. We played two games, but this could be expanded for more game play.

These are the rules we followed. I've seen different variations from club to club.

We could have just used note pads, but I thought this would be a nice added touch.

I cannot take credit for this design. The social chair found one similar and asked if I could recreate it. I changed it up just slightly so there would be a little contrast with fonts. The original had all the wording in the Oktoberfest-style font.

Design: Oktoberfest Bunco

If you've never played Bunco, you should! It's a really easy dice game and gives you a chance to move around and meet new people. For our base spouses' club, we will be having a Bunco social this month. A lot of Bunco groups will choose a different theme each month and dress up or decorate according to that theme. I was spitballing ideas with our social chair and mentioned Oktoberfest as a fun idea (even though technically Oktoberfest usually happens at the end of September). She loved the idea and decided to go with it! I was really excited because I knew the flier would be fun to make.

Fonts used:
Old English Text
Bookman Old Style

Oktoberfest!

While at World Market (one of our favorite stores), we were looking at their German display. Charles casually said to me "We should have an Oktoberfest party." At the time, I was thought it was a good idea but didn't take it very seriously. However, later I was thinking about all the fun things we could do and all the yummy food we could eat and I was sold! Charles, on the other hand, wasn't too thrilled. I don't think he thought I would take his suggestion seriously.

After a little convincing, we decided to host an Oktoberfest party. It was soooo much fun! We cooked a lot of food and sadly took pictures of NONE of it! But here are some pictures of everything else!

We had everyone pick a German name tag to wear during the party. It was fun finding German names and learning their meaning.

We had several photo props and a backdrop so people could take pictures. My vintage cart from the Mad Men themed Spouses Night Out came in handy!

My Silhouette is awesome! I used it to cut out pennants in the German flag colors and pretzels for this simple banner.

We both lived in Germany and have been together twice in our married life. Naturally, we have quite a collection of German stuff. It was perfect for our Oktoberfest centerpiece. I purchased the Oktoberfest tablecloth on Amazon.

Charles picked out several German words for people to guess the meaning of. It was fun to hear the guesses. German can be a hard language!

The closest dress I had to the German look.

I picked up 6 random beers at World Market for a blind tasting. I didn't like any of them, but I am not a huge fan of beer. But I think everyone had fun tasting.

Our little group.

That's a real German lederhosen, folks!