Tonight was the night for Germany...I think even Super Dave the Girl Cat wanted a bite! On the menu tonight was German Currywurst http://allrecipes.com/recipe/german-carrywurst/detail.aspx German Zwiebelkuchen (Onion Pie) http://allrecipes.com/recipe/german-zwiebelkuchen-onion-pie/detail.aspx German Potato Salad http://allrecipes.com/recipe/german-potato-salad/detail.aspx and Barbarella's German Pancakes http://allrecipes.com/recipe/barbarellas-german-pancakes/detail.aspx with my own Carmel-Disaronno Apple Filling.
It's been raining cats and dogs the last couple of days, we lost power last night and when I drove Bob to meet his shuttle this morning, there were at least 3 cottonwoods knocked down by the wind. Avon put it well---we are starting to mold! Anyway, the fur kids were lazy today and not underfoot, so that's a good thing!
I don't know how this isn't driving Bob nuts...it sure would me...vultures!! Bob has 4 treatments left and then they will scope his throat and see if he needs additional ones. They ran the scope down on Tuesday and the tumor has shrunk by 3/4's. That's cause for celebration!! And we need to celebrate! He's been grouchy, grumpy and tired. He tried to eat tonight but didn't have much luck even after taking his lidocaine syrup. But he did manage to taste everything and gave it all thumbs up.
The start of the onion pie...peel and cut 3 pounds of onions. This only took me 45 minutes to do because I had to stop every minute or so and splash cold water in my eyes to take away the sting and then I had to wait for them to quit tearing up...it's worth the effort, to me....
because this was the end result. Gorgeous to look at and it tastes phenominal, too!
Again, thanks to Beckey Dodds...not only for the information you are about to recieve, but a huge thanks for the custard powder and wonderful chocolate I recieved today...I'm going to mess around with that this weekend. And I have to say, Beckey, I always thought I had really nice handwriting, but yours puts mine to shame!!!
And, of course, green onions from my container garden...they are quite tasty!
Come together with crumbled bacon for a delicious treat...German Potato Salad! I've never had it, I've looked at recipes dozens of times and thought I wouldn't care for it, and, for the record, I was so far off base with that assumption, I wasn't even in the ballpark! It's fantastic and I think this will be my new potato salad from now on....YUM!
It's been raining cats and dogs the last couple of days, we lost power last night and when I drove Bob to meet his shuttle this morning, there were at least 3 cottonwoods knocked down by the wind. Avon put it well---we are starting to mold! Anyway, the fur kids were lazy today and not underfoot, so that's a good thing!
I don't know how this isn't driving Bob nuts...it sure would me...vultures!! Bob has 4 treatments left and then they will scope his throat and see if he needs additional ones. They ran the scope down on Tuesday and the tumor has shrunk by 3/4's. That's cause for celebration!! And we need to celebrate! He's been grouchy, grumpy and tired. He tried to eat tonight but didn't have much luck even after taking his lidocaine syrup. But he did manage to taste everything and gave it all thumbs up.
The start of the onion pie...peel and cut 3 pounds of onions. This only took me 45 minutes to do because I had to stop every minute or so and splash cold water in my eyes to take away the sting and then I had to wait for them to quit tearing up...it's worth the effort, to me....
because this was the end result. Gorgeous to look at and it tastes phenominal, too!
Again, thanks to Beckey Dodds...not only for the information you are about to recieve, but a huge thanks for the custard powder and wonderful chocolate I recieved today...I'm going to mess around with that this weekend. And I have to say, Beckey, I always thought I had really nice handwriting, but yours puts mine to shame!!! Germany is a rich agricultural country with many cuisines. Germany, a powerful empire, was unified in 1871, until then there was no capitol. In the unification, Berlin was chosen as the capitol city and remained that way until the end of World War II, in 1949, when the country divided into the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) with Bonn as the capitol and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) with East Berlin being it's capitol. Germany remained this way until the decline of the USSR and the end of the cold war when it was reunified in 1990. Since then, Germany has expended considerable funds to bring Eastern productivity and wages up to Western standards. In January 1999, Germany and 10 other European countries introduced a common European exchange currency, the Euro.
This is the dressing for the German Potato Salad...bacon grease, sugar, flour, water and cider vinegar...
And, of course, green onions from my container garden...they are quite tasty!
Come together with crumbled bacon for a delicious treat...German Potato Salad! I've never had it, I've looked at recipes dozens of times and thought I wouldn't care for it, and, for the record, I was so far off base with that assumption, I wasn't even in the ballpark! It's fantastic and I think this will be my new potato salad from now on....YUM!
Germany consisted of what had been several loosely integrated kingdoms, in the west, Prussia, Saxony and Bavaria. Each kingdom had it's own specialties whcih it shared during the first four brief decades of unity. Some of the specialties, such as Konigsberger (I don't know how to get the dots over the "O") Klopse-meatballs made of ground pork, beef, bacon and anchovies, served with a creamy sauce, has achieved the status of a national dish. Regional specialties are dictated by was has been traditionally grown, raised or caught in the area.
Pork is the most common meat and Germans can do magical things with it. Sausage making has become an art form an dit is said there are as many varieties of sausage as there are towns in Germany. Cabbage is the national vegetable.
Pork is the most common meat and Germans can do magical things with it. Sausage making has become an art form an dit is said there are as many varieties of sausage as there are towns in Germany. Cabbage is the national vegetable.
This is the Currywurst sauce...it tasted to Bob and me like Spaghetti-O's. And when I was a kid, I loved Spaghetti-O's, this brought back a wave of nostalgia for me...
I was iffy at first, I thought it looked like chopped up hot dogs drenched in ketchup and I wasn't digging that! But, again, I made an @ss outta myself with my assumption...another fantastic dish!
And here is my German dinner! Absolutely to-die for!
And I can't forget those delicious pancakes! Or crepes, or blintzes or whatever....the first one was a pain in my @ss to flip over, the second was a breeze! I ran a toothpick around the edges first and then folded it over with my heat resistant spatula...
My Caramel-Disaronno Apple Filling: 3 red delicious apples, peeled and cored and sauteed in 2 tablespoons of butter. Add in cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg to taste along with a teaspoon of vanilla and 2 tablespoons of Disaronno (a super good, top-shelf amaretto) and 3 tablespoons of brown sugar...let it all hang in the pan until it smells great and the apples are soft and put it on top of those German pancakes....oh, yeah!!
Just like that...that's what I'm talking about!
Groceries for tonight's dinner ran me $15.55 and that includes the $6 hand mixer I got at Walmart. I burned up my last one when I made the Irish dinner. I was able to still put $4.45 into the Beach Bag for a total of $125.85 after 20 weeks...can you believe this is almost half over...20 weeks...REALLY??? But, yes, it has been this long.
I was iffy at first, I thought it looked like chopped up hot dogs drenched in ketchup and I wasn't digging that! But, again, I made an @ss outta myself with my assumption...another fantastic dish!
And here is my German dinner! Absolutely to-die for!
And I can't forget those delicious pancakes! Or crepes, or blintzes or whatever....the first one was a pain in my @ss to flip over, the second was a breeze! I ran a toothpick around the edges first and then folded it over with my heat resistant spatula...
My Caramel-Disaronno Apple Filling: 3 red delicious apples, peeled and cored and sauteed in 2 tablespoons of butter. Add in cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg to taste along with a teaspoon of vanilla and 2 tablespoons of Disaronno (a super good, top-shelf amaretto) and 3 tablespoons of brown sugar...let it all hang in the pan until it smells great and the apples are soft and put it on top of those German pancakes....oh, yeah!!
Just like that...that's what I'm talking about!
Groceries for tonight's dinner ran me $15.55 and that includes the $6 hand mixer I got at Walmart. I burned up my last one when I made the Irish dinner. I was able to still put $4.45 into the Beach Bag for a total of $125.85 after 20 weeks...can you believe this is almost half over...20 weeks...REALLY??? But, yes, it has been this long. Neither person that Bob pulled out of the hat last Friday responded back to my emails, so Bob and I chose countries. Bob chose Ethiopia and I chose Cambodia. I got thoroughly spanked on this vote...it was shameful! You all, apparently, want to see Ethiopia!
Oh, I almost forgot!! I went to reach into the cupboard for a baggie and smacked my left middle finger on the sharp cutting strip for the aluminum foil and got a pretty decent cut that went through my nail and into the nail bed and along the cuticle. It took a good couple of hours of a pressure bandage, but it finally quit bleeding. If I would have cut myself anywhere else, I would have had to put this dinner on hold to go and get stitched up...but I'll be fine and I have cut myself WAY worse than this before...just a lesson...always close those stinking boxes with the sharp cutting edges!!! What can I say? I am a klutz!! Until we meet up in Ethiopia next week, pray for Kathleen's friends' little boy, Benjamin and I wish you all peace! I'm out!!
