Tomato and basil sang-witch.
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Dumpling time!
Pork and garlic chive (yellow and green, from freezer) with store bought Northern style wrappers.
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looks delicious.
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Nice! Do you know what brand wrappers?
Beauties!
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Impressive and colourful.
I saw in an episode of “Asia unplated with Diana Chan” (an Australian production) a guest made Vietnamese rolls with these lacy wrappers, then deep-fried. He used a tin with holes for the “wrappers”. Hipsters’ version of Vietnamese deep fried rolls.
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I also like thick wrappers but we don’t have them here. I use something they call “gyoza” wrappers, thick enough but not as thick as northern Chinese style. Korean wrappers are also thick but this Chinese supermarket stopped getting them for some reason.
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Your home-grown tomatoes are beautiful. Are the yellow ones also as flavourful as the red?
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Only thing missing is black pudding. Or maybe you don’t like black pudding?
Potato salad, with cream and dill. A bit north German style, but I don’t use any recipe.
Southern German style (steeped in warm broth). I like mine with grainy mustard and crispy-fried Speck.
A typical north German light meal (my version): Rollmops, Matjes herring, North Sea shrimp, salmon roe.
Another lunch:
Loosely based on Cretan-style Kalitsounia (mini spinach pies). I used Peking duck pan cakes and also added crumbed feta to the vegetable fillings. Kalitsounia contains one type of vegetable, it could be any seasonal one. I made half with spinach and half with roasted aubergine pulp. Both had crumbed feta. The yogurt dip had parsley and more feta in it.
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I love German food. We lived in NL for several years and struggled to find restaurants with anything we liked, although I do fondly recall a pannenkoekenhuis that had a sauteed chicken liver/onions/brandy choice near Wassenaar. When DH traveled to Germany for business, I was always happy to accompany him because of the food. And we always took a large cooler with us because we had access to groceries at Ramstein AFB.
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In general milder and sweeter, but I have several reds, “blacks” and pinks as well, and I don’t think I could even tell in a blind test.
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I also find yellow tomatoes milder, but then I love almost all tomatoes. Pretty sure your own tomatoes have more intense flavour than shop-bought. Do a side-by-side tasting of all your tomatoes once, just for fun.
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Yellow tomatoes are touted as less acidic. We grew some yellow pear-shaped cherry tomatoes this year and we also have Old Germans which are starting to ripen. Our favorite tomatoey tomato is a Cherokee Purple. Not pretty to look at - sort of a bruised color, but it has the most delicious flavor. Our tomato crop has been hard to keep up with this year.
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None on hand 
I like black pudding but it’s not super common around here.
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Black pudding makes my tongue tingle for some reason. It is my least favorite of a full English Breakfast. Haggis does that, as well…
Interesting! Maybe the iron in the blood?
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Tried to be virtuous at lunch today with a salad, in anticipation of a meaty dinner.
Riff on panzanella, but just a little bread and lots of vegetables. Shaved fennel that survived freezing in my vegetable drawer, yellow grape tomatoes from the farmers market, shallot, and a red wine vinegar and olive oil dressing. I added a bit of fresh mozzarella just because, but it was unnecessary.
Bread component was a slice of homemade part-WW bread cut into croutons and toasted, which let it absorb the juices nicely.
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^^ Mozzarella is always welcome in my salads.
Squid rings from the market fishmonger (I don’t deep-fry at home).
Crab claws are getting more expensive, just like most things nowadays.
Nice days are rare, even in the summer. It’s been so wet and miserable all summer. Mushrooms shot up everywhere. They think it’s already autumn.
Probably in the same family but this one has no white dots, at all.
A simple fungus can look interesting and beautiful. Beauty is everywhere, it’s up to one’s brain to render it.
It’s so small I almost didn’t see it. Doesn’t look like much here, until an observant person notices it.
A lone mushroom on a carpet of moss. Back light and perspective make the photo.
One of the rare dry summer days, and even when it’s sunny it’s not just barely warm. There are 3 trail markers near the entrance with a painted face on each. The other 2 markers are in the open and exposed to the elements, this face is still clearly visible.
Some walking paths are tiny, like this one, only wide enough to fit the width of your shoes.
The partner thought I picked up a turd!
First time seeing a cone with its scales tightly packed and they also curl inwards. The white bits are sap which has fallen from a tree.
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