Germans and their food
here are the 2 recipes i posted in the other thread, but we were getting quite rather off-topic, so i thought, hey, i should be considerate. post yours, or modifications, or just how much you love it.
Celery Seed Dressing
1 cup Sugar
1 1/2 tsp. Salt
1 1/2 tsp. Paprika
1 1/2 tsp. Instant Onion
1/2 cup Ketchup
1/2 cup Vinegar
1 1/2 tsp. Celery Seed
1 1/2 cup Water
Blend all of the above in blender then reduce speed and add 1 1/2 cup Salad Oil.
and here's the family version (i guess probably the most basic) of speatzel.
Knieffles
1 1/2 cups Flour
1 tsp. Salt
1 Egg
Put egg in center of flour and salt mixture and mix well. Then begin adding small amounts of water until the dough gathers all together. Knead dough on counter until it is a smooth dough ball. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil then begin breaking small bits of dough into the boiling water. Continue until all the dough is broken into the boiling water and cook until tender. Drain and put a little bit of butter on and mix through.
but the ketchup isn't very prevelant. it's just an enhancer. rock on, you can post your slovakian foods here also. i think the whoel thing with dishing out the saetzel with a spoon came from convience. you shoulda seen my g-ma take a spoon to the ball of dough, her hands became a blur. i'm not [I]that[/I] good yet. yet.
Your grandma is a badasssss (in the best possible way)
Thanks, I'll be back with some recipes
I cook rice-in-a-bag and spaghetti-in-a-box and waffles-in-a-toaster and pizzas-in-a-microwave. Oh yeah, and chilli, from a can. That is the extent of my cooking skills. Fear.
those aren't german, wait, that's not real food. that's that "in the can" crap. arrrghh, my whole world destroyed in a single post. damn my eyes.
how pointless was that post?
Disx
you can still eat German food and preserve your carefree cook-free life style. Frankfurt(ers), Hamburg(ers) come to mind.
I gots no recipes, but i thoroughly enjoy German food. My mom's dad's side of the family is German, so every Christmas we have this huge German dinner for Christmas. 6 different kinds of sausage, red cabbage, potato pancakes (waffles actually), a german roast, and tons of other stuff that I'm forgetting right now. Some of my best memories involve German food. Mountains and mountains of it. 
you forgot cabbage rolls. definately cabbage rolls.
what about rouladen?
beef bracciole or an excellent cut of sirloin pounded very thin.
parboiled carrots, pickles and potatoes.
roll beef around the vegetable, brown in a pan. serve over sauerkraut; deglaze pan with a german beer or white wine for gravy.
My mom used to make it with pickle, carrot and hardboiled egg inside with everything smeared with mustard, than rolled up and sewn with cooking string. She roasted hers at a low heat for a couple of hours. Roasted baby red potatoes with caraway seed on the side.
Anybody got anything to post on goose with fried red cabbage (with apples and speck)
you have to have chestnut stuffing when you make goose
duh
lol
if anyone lives in ohio, there's a deli, rather a butcher, who makes the most outstanding meats imagineable, and all by himself - no fillers, preservatives, etc. really great german mustards too - in the squeeze tube!
any body like rabbit - has - zum beispiel?
wow, do they have mail order at all? I haven't had good blood sausage in a long while.
We have a German Bakery here that makes authentic hand made strudel. The strudel is over two feet long, apple or poppyseed. We order those instead of pie on Thanksgiving.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by framstedt [/i]
[B]any body like rabbit - has - zum beispiel? [/B][/QUOTE]
whoops, I'm out of order. Have to remember to quote.
I love rabbit. See my posts on "Your Favorite Bunny" thread. For serious. The mustard bunny is good.
Do you have a recipe with mustard and speck, because I can't imagine anything more delicious.
(For example...I'm learning Duetch!)
sadly, no. we drove there specifically to visit the butcher, der metzger, wie du willst. the poppy seed kugel is simply to die for, isn't it. try it with a trockenbeerenauslese. wow. zum wohl.
i haven't had blutwurst since i lived in germany. although, when i visited france a few years back i think i had farrwurts - horse sausage. a close second if you ask me.
whats kugel?
I've heard that horsemeat makes the best burgers ever. I like gamey stuff like buffalo and venison. Is horsemeat like that?
[QUOTE]if anyone lives in ohio, there's a deli, rather a butcher, who makes the most outstanding meats imagineable, and all by himself - no fillers, preservatives, etc. really great german mustards too - in the squeeze tube![/QUOTE]
fram, are you sure i'm not related to you? i live in dayton, ohio. where's this magical butcher?
i don't know, certainly we know one another from the six degrees game, but the metzger is in or outside of cincinnati. if you're interested, i'll email my bud goesta and get the exact particulars for you. definitely worth the trip.
kugel is a kind of cake or torte, usually filled with something sweet. horse is good meat, bloody, though that's why it makes for excellent sausage. sadly, only the french an dgerman appear to enjoy horse these days with any regularity.
rabbits, yes, with mustard. ausverstandliche rezept kommt hier nachtses:
rabbit - quartered
white wine
vegetable or chicken or veal broth
minced shallots
dijon mustard
thyme
garlic
champignons (the button mushrooms)
to saute rabbit use a pan that can go into the oven. saute rabbit with shallots, thyme and garlic until brown on all sides. then add enough white wine and broth to cover. add champigons after 45 minutes. cook rabbit until tender. serve with an iced cold beer or sauvignon blanc or viognier. great, great stuff. zum wohl!
Great thread!!!
I'm not German but Slovak food is very similar. Guess how many different potato dishes we had at easter dinner last night....
We also eat spaetzle. But instead of breaking of bits of dough we use a special pan that has the right size holes punched through. Then you rub the dough through the holes with a wooden spoon.
I can't eat dressing that has ketchup in it. Its a phobia