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Post by spaceflower on Jan 22, 2018 1:42:56 GMT
I don't know much about German food but I can buy Sauerkraut in my nearby grocery. "What shall I eat after my antibiotics cure", I asked the doctor and she said "Sauerkraut and Proviva".
Both hubby and I like Sauerkraut, but the cans are too big. We have to eat Sauerkraut not one or two days but every day of the week.
Stollen I can get at Lidl just around Christmas.
Anyone with more experience of typical German food?
(Proviva is a kind of juice with Lactobacillus Plantarum.)
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jan 22, 2018 10:32:13 GMT
I love sauerkraut. Very typical Slovak dish is to caramelise onions, add bacon and sausages or pork, sauerkraut and of course paprika, lots of good paprika. And water and a bit of grated potato. Makes a delicious soup. With a bit of proper rye bread. Or here I often chuck it on gnocci.
Germans also do pork knuckle which is yummo. Oh and in southern Germany they have spatzle which is sort of like Slovak halusky. Kind of a gnocci type thing.
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Post by JoeP on Jan 22, 2018 10:35:12 GMT
Sauerkraut can be good. I love stollen! But the thread title seems to be suggesting a combination ... which doesn't seem all that appealing
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Post by JoeP on Jan 22, 2018 11:06:04 GMT
Other German foods? Must include sausage! Bratwurst!
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Post by Elis on Jan 23, 2018 8:51:37 GMT
I have to admit that I absolutely hate sauerkraut. The taste is vile. Stollen isn't quite as bad, but I don't really like it that much, either - and hate it when it had the vile, greenish mass in the middle. Spatzle I used to like as a child, but we live in the north now and don't have it and I don't relly miss it. There is enough other starchy stuff. And when it comes to sausages, I jave had a few that were ok, but none I really liked. But then I'm a bit fussy when it comes to meat anyway. Am not a big fan of pork or goose, either and have never seen the point of steak. Oh, and then there is the stuff they call Mett - raw minced meat and onions. Eight now I'm not allowed to jave it anyway, but even if I was,I wouldn't eat that. Raw minced meat just sounds awful and the thought makes me cringe. Frank doesn't like it either, but one day he was helping a friend and she got him a breadroll with Mett from the bakery. He ate it, wanting to be polite and being hungry, but he wouldn't buy it for himself.
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Post by Mari on Jan 23, 2018 18:06:55 GMT
I like zuurkool, which might be the Dutch version of sauerkraut. I like making it with mandarins or with kerrie. Though it's called sour, it's generally not that sour.
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Post by spaceflower on Jan 23, 2018 19:13:52 GMT
Sauerkraut can be good. I love stollen! But the thread title seems to be suggesting a combination ... which doesn't seem all that appealing They both begin in S... You could eat Bratwurst with Sauerkraut and Kartoffeln, and then have tea and Stollen.
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Post by Moose on Jan 23, 2018 20:08:23 GMT
I've never tried sa.. however you spell it. I would give it a whirl though.
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Post by tangent on Jan 23, 2018 23:00:23 GMT
... and then have tea and Stollen. Do you get it from Ivor?
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Post by whollygoats on Jan 24, 2018 5:11:50 GMT
LOL...
I must admit, as I read the thread, I kept thinking, "Stolen what...and from whom?"
Then, I looked it up online.
Oh, my dawg. Stollen is a version of the infamous holiday fruitcake loaf.
I grew up with those things. I detest them. My family members traded around loaves that were...nobody knew how many years they'd been circulating as regifted loaves.
Each year, I watched in horror as my mother constructed and launched entirely new fruitcake loaves, drenched in rum, and lovingly wrapped in yards of aluminium foil.
Nasty sweet sicky garbage. ETA: Doorstops! That's what they were....
Sauerkraut I rather like. Composted shredded cabbage can be quite satisfying, particularly with the wurst. I had an uncle that spoiled his own in crocks in his basement.
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Post by whollygoats on Jan 24, 2018 5:27:17 GMT
As for German food, I'm somewhat familiar with it, due to being a frequent enough visitor to the two nearby German delicatessens, Idelweiss and Otto's. They both are vendors of German meat cuts, imported beers and wines, specialty pastries and imported specialty foods. They both make their own in-house sauerkrauts. They both serve hot lunches. So, one can obtain all the goods needed to make a full, formal German dinner and have a wurst (several kinds) on a kaiser roll with sauerkraut and a choice of several craft mustards. Usually a choice of soups on hand, too.
I love a meal of schnitzel, with spaetzle and a marinaded shredded beet salad....with a good German wine. Chocolate cake for dessert.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 24, 2018 11:36:12 GMT
For some reason, when learning French at school, we were taught the word for this (choucroute). No idea why that would be more useful than other words!
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Post by Moose on Jan 24, 2018 19:28:27 GMT
Gotta go with WG .. I've always found things like stollen and panacotta to be not very nice. They don't know whether they are cakes or breads and that irks me.
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Post by Elis on Jan 25, 2018 7:00:29 GMT
WG's description sums up the taste of stollen for me very well. Mostly, it was even freshly bough from the shop, but as a child I only liked the bits with the sugar on top that hardly had any raisins - and those bits were tiny. I have never bought any myself, except to give to others who liked it (seemed to like it?).
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Post by spaceflower on Jan 25, 2018 12:02:08 GMT
I like fruitcakes with plums and nuts so of course I like Stollen too. But I think it is only sold at Christmas and only at Lidl.
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Post by Mari on Jan 25, 2018 18:33:27 GMT
We have them here for Easter too. I don't like them.
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Post by Moose on Jan 25, 2018 21:37:00 GMT
My mum bought us a very , very heavy loaf cake last Christmas ... full of fruit and nuts but not traditional Christmas cake. It wasn't really my thing
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Post by Kye on Jan 25, 2018 22:03:30 GMT
Every Christmas I get one or two Caribbean Black Cakes from my faithful parishioners. They're very heavy, having been soaked in rum for months. I find them too rich, but one of my daughters loves them.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 25, 2018 23:07:48 GMT
My mum bought us a very , very heavy loaf cake last Christmas ... full of fruit and nuts but not traditional Christmas cake. It wasn't really my thing It did make a wonderful door-stop though!
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jan 26, 2018 7:04:07 GMT
I don't like the Britsh fruit puddings traditional for christmas, but stollen is delicious. It's much lighter and basically a fruit bread with almont paste, what's not to love? And powder sugar, got to have that.
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Post by Elis on Jan 27, 2018 10:58:28 GMT
I don't like the Britsh fruit puddings traditional for christmas, but stollen is delicious. It's much lighter and basically a fruit bread with almont paste, what's not to love? And powder sugar, got to have that. I rarely like bread or cake with fruit. I love the apple pie which Frank makes, as well as mince pies and my grandmother's strawberry cake was alright, but I hate the German plum cake or traditional German apple cakes. I don't really like the texture of the fruit once it has been cooked for so long. Something that is big here as well is putting fruit into muesli. I'd rather have fresh fruit on the side. Even black forest gateau isn't really my thing and the only reason I still find it better than the apple or plum cake is that the cherries seem to be nicer in there and there aren't as many of them. But again, I'd prefer fresh cherries on their own. Raisins are ok on their own in small amounts and I can sort of tolerate them in muesli, but I don't like them in bread or cake. Again, weird texture and I still have a tendency to swallow them whole so I won't have to chew them. Christmas pudding is different. Have only had very small servings anyway since it is incredibly heavy and it's definitely not my favourite, but the pieces f fruit etc. are small enough for me to find it easier to tolerate them. Admittedly, we have often had a different kind of dessert for Christmas which I prefer.
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Post by Mari on Jan 27, 2018 13:16:03 GMT
Ugh, raisins.
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Post by tangent on Jan 27, 2018 18:29:18 GMT
I adore rich fruit cakes and Christmas pudding, the heavier the better.
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Post by whollygoats on Jan 27, 2018 23:04:26 GMT
I adore rich fruit cakes and Christmas pudding, the heavier the better. Food with gravity.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jan 29, 2018 10:17:49 GMT
I don't like the Britsh fruit puddings traditional for christmas, but stollen is delicious. It's much lighter and basically a fruit bread with almont paste, what's not to love? And powder sugar, got to have that. I rarely like bread or cake with fruit. I love the apple pie which Frank makes, as well as mince pies and my grandmother's strawberry cake was alright, but I hate the German plum cake or traditional German apple cakes. I don't really like the texture of the fruit once it has been cooked for so long. Something that is big here as well is putting fruit into muesli. I'd rather have fresh fruit on the side. Even black forest gateau isn't really my thing and the only reason I still find it better than the apple or plum cake is that the cherries seem to be nicer in there and there aren't as many of them. But again, I'd prefer fresh cherries on their own. Raisins are ok on their own in small amounts and I can sort of tolerate them in muesli, but I don't like them in bread or cake. Again, weird texture and I still have a tendency to swallow them whole so I won't have to chew them. Christmas pudding is different. Have only had very small servings anyway since it is incredibly heavy and it's definitely not my favourite, but the pieces f fruit etc. are small enough for me to find it easier to tolerate them. Admittedly, we have often had a different kind of dessert for Christmas which I prefer. I'm the opposite! Fruity cakes and desserts are my favourite. The other day I made apricot crumble and the apricot got all soft and sweet and warm, love it! And apple pie or apple strudel is the bomb. Cherry and plum cakes and pies are also delicious. I almost always pick fruit desserts over chocolate ones!
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Post by Moose on Feb 6, 2018 23:29:08 GMT
Steve, if I'd known I'd have sent you the one my mum gave us. That said, it was heavy enough that the postage would probably have been more than the cost of the thing. Kye, that actually looks good to me. It's the sort of thing I'd probably eat only in small quantities at a time (and hell, I don't say that about many foods ) but I'd enjoy.
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Post by Kye on Feb 6, 2018 23:31:13 GMT
Next time you come over, I'll give you a piece.
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Post by tangent on Feb 7, 2018 0:08:51 GMT
Steve, if I'd known I'd have sent you the one my mum gave us. Or you could have saved it for when I'm next in Cumbria.
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Post by spaceflower on Apr 25, 2018 0:07:35 GMT
They have themes with French, British, Italian etc food at Lidl. Last time there was German/Austrian. I bought Knödel but it was too filling. These potato balls were simply too big, one half was enough. I also saw a frozen Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte, which I think would have been more to my taste. Alas, our freezer is already full, so I could not buy it. The Schwarzwald cake we eat in Sweden is different:
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Post by Kye on Apr 25, 2018 2:06:13 GMT
I'm wondering what the food will be like in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
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