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Cook’s weekend

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The cook’s other weekend

Le laboratoire, sans chef Voila! Le chef

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Cooks Day Off

Le chef bien reposé

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More Salad

They are harvesting Romaine Lettuce now, and it’s really cheap, so we made this.

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Wurst Salad

We are able to buy this shredded sausage in the store.  The texture and taste is like hot dogs or bologna so you could make your own.  The ingredients are cheese, chopped pickles, chopped green onions, oil, and vinegar.  Some … Continue reading

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Vegetable Ragout

It’s just common vegetables cooked as you would with chopped meat.  This is what we use for the vegetable lasagne that we had in a previous  post. Lasagne results A sea of lasgne Le Laboratoire Le Chef

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German Potato Salad

There are a lot of recipes for this.  This one comes from an old German cookbook. You need: 1 1/2-2 lbs of potatoes. (The yellow waxy kind if you can get them.) 5 tablespoons oil 5 tablespoons vinegar A cup … Continue reading

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Not yet lunch

We spotted a little plastic box on sale in the supermarket. It said we could just add water and have our own tomato plant.  You don’t expect much for 99 cents, but this is what we got.  Roughly three feet … Continue reading

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It’s salsa time!

No, not the Latin dance.  The Italian tradition for making tomato sauce at this time of year is still with us in Germany.

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Yet another summer salad

What you see is pretty much what’s in this.  Cucumbers, kidney beans, tomatoes, feta, red onions, lima beans.

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