Category Archives: What’s For Lunch?

Things we had to eat this year.

Cook’s weekend

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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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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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Another use for Garbanzos

These are from flour made with chick peas/garbanzos.  It’s  mixed with some olive oil, salt, and water.  Use enough water to make something about as thick as tomato soup and let it set over night. In the refrigerator is OK. … Continue reading

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A few veggies on the side

This is a “what you have” plate.  Some of the home peeled beans, spinach, chard, carrots, borage, dandelions…….  Just cook them in a little of that frozen broth you have left over from the winter soup season.

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Rosti

If you “Google” for these, you will probably get a hundred different recipes.  In Northern Europe you can find four or five kinds in the smallest markets. Searching for the origin, we came up with Switzerland, and a very simple … Continue reading

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