What I Had

 

 

A tin of red beans in hot sauce, some... no surprise on this front... "old" red capsicum and feta, and that was it 😁

No extra spices needed!

Just throw the capsicum in the pan first (after cutting, of course) with some oil and then add the rest, tadaaa, done, eat.

It tastes nice!

See, I try to be quick.

"Cooking" and eating in 30 minutes max.

Working from home is great, but you get meetings, regular ones, and people try to catch you despite you change your status to "will be back soon" (yellow).

They call you anyways, but, hey, really? No.

I really do not care how others handle this.

When I need to have a lunch break and there is no "emergency" I´m not there. That´s that.

Henry 🦁

No, big boy, just give it a go, and then hop over to Kathy´s last (?) Food Wednesday, you will find your meat over there.  Or visit your alter ego at Tom´s Signs2....

Let´s Have A Party!

 

 

Your name is much better for this dish - we call it Senfeier, mustard eggs, how boring sounds this!

Anyhows, since we have these super-mega-yummy potatoes I suggested this yum for the weekend.

 

You will need for two (we ate twice from this, as usual):

• 4 hard boiled eggs (not too hard) 
• 1/2 onion (use the other half for fried potatoes some other time, for example)
• 1/2 tb flour
• 1/2 tb butter
• 150 ml broth
• 70 ml milk
• 1 tb mustard (make sure you have enough!!! Add as much as you like)
• salt
• pepper
• Worcestersauce

• potatoes

 

You have to make roux for this: 

Butter in the pan - don´t let it go brown, add the cut onion, and the flour.

Take off the heat, add broth, mix. When creamy, put it back on heat, ,on low temp, add milk and bring it then to the boil.

Take care to not burn it.

Add salt, pepper and Worcestersauce, then mustard, if you are out, just pop over we can share - Ingo bought 1000 ml!!!!!

 

 

The mustard is from East Germany and really yummy.

No more cooking now, just keep it warm and add the eggs.

 

Potatoes go well with this.  

 

Very, very yummy!

 

Henry 🦁 

 

 Oh, come on, big boy, you don´t need meat every day!

 

Look what the Elefant has in stock for June (calendar from Die Maus)!

 

This is for Kathy´s Food Wednesdays.

For Tom´s Signs 2, pop in here if you like, some other food to find...

 

 

Off To Königsberg

 

 

My maternal side of the family came from a village near Königsberg, "the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia." (wiki). 

My Grandma made this dish often, and Ingo loves it, too. It was about time again. 

 

 

What you need (4 portions for "normal" people):

 

Meatballs:

• 350 g / ca 75 lbs ground beef
• 150 g / ca 30 lbs pork mince
• 1 old breadroll, soaked in warm water
• 1 onion, finely chopped
  
• 2 eggs
• 2 ts breadcrumbs
• salt, pepper

Broth:

• 1 liter broth
• salt
• 1 onion, finely chopped
  
• 1 bay leaf
• a bit piment and pepper

Sauce:

• 3 ts butter
• 2 ts flour
• sugar
• lemonjuice
• 1 small glass capers (no sauce, just the capers)
  
• 1 egg yolk
• salt, pepper

 

Make meatballs, heat the broth and let the balls cook in there for 10 minutes.

Get rid of bay leaf, pepper and piment, let the meatballs in the hot, not cooking broth for another 10 minutes.

Take them out, keep warm.

 

Omi would be proud her dish lives on :-)

 

This was in Hamburg, around Christmas time.

She suffered Alzheimer´s already and out out of 14 Grandkids (most lived nearby) it was Bro and I who visited and took her to a tour. 

April 2002 she sadly left us for good.

She helped raising Bro and I.

 

For the sauce heat butter, put in flour, add the broth and capers (as kid I thought they were little, whole animals and refused to eat them, LOL) - no more cooking, add the other ingredients and in with the meatballs again.

Yummy potatoes go great with this:

Yum.

Ingo went a little overboard with the "for 4 people". Today is day 5 we eat this!

This is for Kathy´s Food Wednesdays 👨‍🍳

 

And Henry 🦁 

For Tom´s Signs2 see here. It´s a different (meat)ball today.

The Star is from Ireland

 

Guest-post by Ingo:

To the meat we came like the virgin to the child: Short story->Supermarket once good, today ->Shit!!! Iris had the idea to go to the "We love food" people. Like at the office: take a number and wait your turn. I asked for beef and the seller: from which country? We have here Ireland, Argentina, etc.(They really love food).

 

Back home I went again to buy potatoes and beans from local production. (My supermarket, I know the staff and we like to have a nice chat).

 

 

 

 

Nothing to say about the preparation really, until the sauce:
I take shallots, pellet and cut them into small wedges.
Roast in the gravy and caramelize with a little sugar. Slowly liquefy with water and solidify with sauce binder if necessary. Voila!

 

 And now for the beer: In the picture you can see the 4 brewmasters. Stefan, Paul, Felix and who rarely drinks with us;) We have here the opportunity every Thursday to make a brewery tour. ( This is now an insider tip and worth more than a city tour)

 

 
These people (can-will) make something of themselves. There were once a few musicians: Guitar player (John Deacon) Another guitar player(Brian May) and then a drummer (Roger Taylor).

The fourth, who was that? It's a kind of magic! 

Thanks for the guest contribution.

 

 

Henry 🦁

This is for Kathy´s Food Wednesdays, of course, thank you, Ingo.

Hmmm, was super-yummy.

For Tom´s see here, if you like.

Are We THOSE?

Sadly Ingo is not feeling well, hence his guest post on the wonderful dinner he made will hopefully greet you next Wednesday.

This was a great steakhouse once, and just around the corner, too. 

We could - on a Saturday arvo! - call for a table for that day, because we knew what we want, are early and quick.

 

And ow, once this happened - it was winter and I didn´t look at what Ingo was wearing.

 

 Same jumpers! 

The meat was very, very, very yummy anyways.

 

 

That would toot my horn!

Ingo has no such top, of course, and luckily 🤣

 

Then one summer it happened: Mine was practically raw.

We went there for more than ten years. I NEVER take raw.

They put it back on the grill. Ewww. Not good.

 

A few weeks later we went again.

Same happened.

Ingo did not pay for mine cause I refused to eat that.

 

We never went back.

 

Good, because... see next Wednesday at Kathy´s Food Wednesdays.

 

Henry 🦁 

 

 "Well, so what, we always roam around like this."

Henry, you are practically naked.

For Tom´s SIgns2 see here, if you like.

 

 

Never Again, Kathy ;-)

 

Well... one more time I will use pizza sauce from MUTTI cause Ingo bought it on my stupid request, but do you know how EASY it is to make that yourself?!!!

Side note - I called my Mum "Mutti", my Bro said "Mami" - same in  your family (if you grew up with siblings)?

I never knew how easy it is, and how quick!

OK. These days we have to have an eye on what is "cheaper".

Ingo bought tomatoes that were more than over-ripe - he could not see it, hello, darn plastic-wrapping!

I cut them, put them in a blender with fresh basil, salt, pepper, quality olive oil - zoooom, done, no worries, a very quick task!

 

 

Never again will I (see title, sorry, Kathy, needed to start like this 😘) never again will  I buy pizza sauce!!! 

I know what is in in mine - no sugar, for example.

How on earth did it take me SO LONG to learn this - it´s so darn easy!!! Healthy!

Next step: the dough, of course - this was a bought one, blehhh, not good.

Cauliflower maybe?

Darn it. I´m hungry now ;-)

This is for Kathy´s food Wednesdays, looking forward to yours.

Tom´s Signs2 see here, if you want.

Henry 🦁

Hm, really, guys?

That´s no Lion-food!

Yum For Kathy

 

I was stressed and a bit frustrated,job-wise, opened the fridge and found some rather very old cooked potatoes Ingo made.

 

Yuck.

And remembered I have an open package of chicken-breast-slices.

And cheese.

Eggs.

Slice and fry the potatoes with salt and pepper till not burned but dark brown (when it starts to smell... be quick).

Meanwhile throw one egg in a cuppa, add sliced meat and cheese, use some spices and kabooom.

It was soooo yummy (and quick)!

I was happy.

Potatoes, cooked, 5 days in the fridge... not a worry!

The cheese did the magic.

This is for Kathy´s Food Wednesdays of course. Looking forward to your recipes!

(Well this is none, rather a "forgot and found"-one).

 

This. Was yummy!

For Tom look here, if you care, it´s cute, really.

Henry 🦁

Try it before you make such a face!

("SALAD?!!" Kidding, Henry)

Bœuf Without Bœuf

So. I needed a "Corinna-test". Negative, what else. I keep my distance (and knock on wood).

Fun side note: Teamleader is back, safe and sound from Kiev (a lot "rusty", though, I think he gained 10+ years being in that stupid war) and one team member here is sick with Corinna.

Him... "oh, that triple-boostered guy?!... 'kidding `", he said - but yes, the German stuff really does not seem to work!

 

Anyhows, this is a great service, only problem: You have to wait 15-20 minutes for the test.

So, what do you do?

Yes, you go shopping.

 

And suddenly I had a piece of tofu in my hand!!!

 

So, what now, ask Mr google and he gave me Tofu Bœuf Stroganoff.

Or, as you call it, Beef Stroganoff. 

 

Yes. That is a Russian dish. So, what.

Reckon most Russian people are nice and don´t want to do any harm to anybody.

 

Looks good, huh?

 

 Henry 🦁 gives you the answer...

 

 Either I´m bad at cooking or Beef needs to be beef, don´t take tofu.

Or, if you were as foolish as I was... spice it up, baby.

 

This is for Wednesday @ Kathy.

 

For Tom you can look here.

 

 

Wednesday @ Kathy

 

Ingo calls pearl barley "calf teeth", it´s a village-thing, I reckon, and it made me refuse to try this... of course.

Like Ingo the "heads" of asparagus as kid, or me capers, thinking they were animals.

But I gave in, Ingo makes a soup with that (really not my fav!).

We had... left overs, well, me. 

 

Bought fresh minced meat, had cheese that I put inside before frying and to the calf teeth I added peppers, carrots, broth, some spices and you have a proper meal, nothing wasted, either.

 

This is for Kathy´s Food Wednesdays and I am happy to join again.

I do know that most people will say, hey. A bit dry, eh?! 

Sorry, I´m a dry one - Ingo never gets I need no sauce. 

Tomato might be good, or Jalapeno-sauce?

 

OR!!!! Just add cheese, darn, next time I´ll do that!

Not only to the meatballs but to those "teeth"! 

 

I also joined Tom´s Signs2, if you care.

It´s fun to be involved and I learn so much!

 

Henry 🦁 

 

 Oh, Henry, that´s but a name. We talk of a grain here.

"Grain. Go home, you!". 

 

Argh.

Never argue with a Lion about food...

 

 

Wednesday @ Kathy

 

 

It´s cold, too cold for the season, so we decided to have kale on the weekend.

Always a warming treat for us "fish-heads".

 

Open the huge thing, grab with full strength and ....

 

 

Then...

 

Next...

 

... then
 

 

 

 

... make sure...

Add butter, meanwhile cook meat with it or in a separate pot, I prefer Kassler, Ingo loves pork belly. Make potatoes et voilá.. .yummy meal.

You certainly cook it for say... two hours, let it cool and reheat it. 

It takes forever so you can do something creative in the meantime:

 

... and eating!

This is for Kathy´s Wednesdays, where we share... food! Who´d ever guessed I can join!

This is fun!

 

For Tom´s Signs2 have a peek here, if you like.

 

Henry 🦁 - glued to the stove!