While my friend Father Z eats high--er, low--on the hog in Rome, I'm tending parish business, eating lunch, as usual, at my desk. Today it is braunschweiger mit zwiebel auf weisbrot (actually leftover hot dog buns), with a side of cottage cheese, all washed down by a Coke Zero.
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Very German!
Very Spartan.
Actually, I loved it. It reminded me of my childhood. This is something my father would have made for himself.
German-American man food?
You are far and away a better person than I.
Just have to ask: When you ate the buns, did you not crave the hotdog even a little?
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That's sweet to have a reminder of your father. :) May God bless you and him!
My favorite German dinner is fried yellow potatoes served with green herb sauce made from Quark, and a green salad with onions and vinegar.
I recently found an amazing German cookbook with all these old childhood favorites....I checked it out of the library, but I'm going to order my own copy online.
Reminds me of my childhood, too. My mother would grind black pepper, dill, and other herbs and spices into the cottage cheese. I do, too. You still need more protein, though. Kippers?
Cottage cheese is almost as good as Quark, which used to be really hard to find, at least here in Los Angeles. But now there is a brand of Quark that's readily available at the supermarket. It comes in different flavors, but you need it plain (often not in stock--I guess it hasn't caught on yet!) to make the herb sauce. I miss Germany!
Braunschweiger has protein. You can make a pâté out of a tube of ordinary leberwurst from the supermarket. Even French people like it, and for them, German food is a big joke!
Jenny:
No, I did not crave a hot dog, not even a little.
Not that I don't like them; but I like braunschweiger, and I hadn't had it in years.
Looks good
I could never stomach cottage cheese.
On the other hand I love ricotta.
I guess I am just a big guinea.
I'm currently in Evansville, Indiana, a hotbed of German-Americans. Ate @ Gerst Haus, a 100 plus year old restaurant. CLASSIC! Went w/ the old standard, wiener schnitzel w/ kraut and rye bread. Superb. Accompanied by a local pilsner and bourbon. They sell 8 oz. glasses of beer. That used to be standard, but nearly impossible to find now. Beer is now Big Gulps. I like short beers.
And tall women.
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