Alsatian Sensation: With Fresh Wild Trout

[Alexandria Profile]

Karakoolaide,

I understand your point ..

We all have our individual likes and dislikes ..

Have a nice weekend ..

[Uschi Profile]

Clive, I prefer my Sauerkraut with smoked rib of pork or a good sausage, too.
I think it may be on the cards next week if I can find the time.

[karadekoolaid Profile]

Clive, I prefer my Sauerkraut with smoked rib of pork or a good sausage, too.
I think it may be on the cards next week if I can find the time.

A good sausage.
NOW you´re talking!

[Stokey Sue Profile]

I am bereft
Lidl used to sell Nurnberger bratwurst; they were delicious. Now they sell Bavarian bratwurst, OK but not the same. I checked again today while stocking up on cheese, lardons, etc.

[Gillthepainter Profile Website]

I'm not sure what I thought of the sauerkraut and traditional choucroute offerings when we were in the Alsace.
It's certainly strong and stick to your ribs cooking.
I guess I'm not really a pickled eater, but I do remember being full a lot of the time.

It's not what I'd present as light or delicate - which isn't a bad thing you understand.

Sorry to hear your beloved sausage supplier has changed on you, Sue.

[Lusciouslush Profile]

I am bereft
Lidl used to sell Nurnberger bratwurst; they were delicious.

They still sell them Sue - I cooked a packet yesterday for The Lushly to have in a bap during the week - I bought them just a couple of days ago.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Hmm - it may be one of those things where they put out a box of mixed packages, and as the Nurnberger are nicer they get snaffled more quickly. I wondered if they had stopped doing the smoked lardons, but I found some at the back of a box of unsmoked yesterday. Will have to go to the big Lidl and capture a shelf filler

[Uschi Profile]

I hope you can find your Nürnberger again, Sue.
BTW, they freeze well and will fit happily into the low icecube drawer where few other things can be stored. I use them as small Bratwurstchen (fried sausages) with mustard or I fry them, cut them up and use them to flavour carrot and potato stew or Savoy cabbage and potato stew.
Don't Aldi have them? They do here.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Thanks Uschi
When I find them again I will stock up
I had two packs in the freezer when I hosted book club at short notice, I just cooked in the oven and served with mustard as part of the finger food and they were very popular.

Perhaps it is the other members who are getting them all?

[Lusciouslush Profile]

Perhaps it is the other members who are getting them all?

[Uschi Profile]

We had a bank holiday here yesterday - German unity day. We celebrated with Sauerkraut, Kasseler (smoked pork ribs or loin which we braised) and mashed potato.
The Sauerkraut was studded with juniper berries and bay leaves and the leftovers will be even better today. As the poet Wilhelm Bush noted in "Max und Moritz" - "Sauerkraut is sublime when reheated".

You can see widow Bolte in her cellar ladleing Sauerkraut from a jar while upstairs Max and Moritz steal her chicken from the frying pan while Spitz (the dog, who later gets the blame and a beating) must look on.

[Lusciouslush Profile]

Smoked pork ribs with that sauerkraut sounds good

Poor Spitz...……….!

[Uschi Profile]

Smoked pork ribs with that sauerkraut sounds good

Poor Spitz...……….!

Good autumn and winter food! loads of vitamins, probiotic bacteria (we ate plenty of the stuff before cooking it. Whether any bacteria made it into the gut alive I don't know) and lots of flavour.

As for Spitz (the German word for anything from a Pomeranian to a Keeshond), he did his job (barking at intruders) as well he could and he still got it with the ladle.