Spinatknödel

spinatknodel

What? What’s Spinatknödel? We’ll get to it, just wait.

spinatknodel
Spinatknödel? What’s that?

This is a recipe based on our trip to Chicago late last year. One of the things we like to do when we travel is to walk around the downtown areas, and, we make it a point to find self-guided walking tours. These can cover history, architecture, food, parks, nearly anything; we just love waking around seeing some of the sights. Well, we’d found some on Frommer’s that we printed out and took with us. And, one tour happened to suggest stopping in the Berghoff Restaurant partway through. We did and loved it. By now, you can guess that one of us had the Spinatknödel for lunch.

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Sauerkraut

making sauerkraut
making sauerkraut
Small batch sauerkraut. A new trend?

We’ve wanted to make up a batch of sauerkraut for years. Yes, years. So, why didn’t we? Well, the main reason is that we didn’t get cabbage in our weekly CSA share. Sure, we could have bought some cabbage at the store, but, we’d heard that the bacteria that start the fermentation of sauerkraut live right on the leaves of the cabbage, and we had no idea if pesticides (if we bought non-organic) or whatever washing is done in preparation for sale (for organic) would affect that. So we waited. And waited. And waited.

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German Potato Salad

German potato salad
German potato salad
Kind of like sweet and sour potatoes.

On returning from vacation, we basically had three potatoes in the house. Just three medium purple potatoes, which doesn’t seem like enough to turn into any sort of interesting meal. Oh, sure, we could just microwave and eat them. Tasty, to be sure, but we thought that we could do better. Maybe try something new (to one of us) with these purple potatoes. What do you think? Up for scratchin’ out a new potato dish? We thought so. Us, too.

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