Batch of homemade hummus and a frig cleanup for lunch.
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Try eggs with mustard sauce sometimes. It’s German. Here’s a recipe in English. You can use up your leftover mashed potatoes with this.
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Sounds good. I love mustard and include it in deviled eggs.
Sometimes I just eat clean. The hummus is also a 4 ingredient version to keep it light. I’m working inbtwn the holidays and benefit by keeping my diet light pre gig.
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looks so delish!
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“Soup 'n salad” = potato salad from last night’s smashed potatoes
and beet/beef soup with horseradish cream, beets leftover from several nights ago starter
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Went to the big city Düsseldorf yesterday for Lebkuchen, where I also had lunch at a brewery’s restaurant. First time beeing back to this restaurant in a really long time. Will be back next time for sure. It’s a little farther than my usual brewery restaurant (Schumacher) but turned out it’s not that far.
So glad the extension has glass roof. Inside in the main hall it’s dim as a tomb. I wouldn’t be able to make clear photos.
Their Altbier is OK but I like the pils better. However, I like Altbier at other breweries in town and am not particularly a fan of pils.
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Mixed meat and sausage plate. Speck (pork belly), Mettwurst (a kind of pork sausage), Lebewurst (liver sausage), blook sausage, Kochwurst (a type of sausage), and a ball of liver. On left is Sauerkraut, the other side is creamy mashed potatoes. I don’t understand why people say they have leftover mashed potatoes. Put enough cream and and butter in it and watch it disappear from my plate.
I did check reviews and photos prior to making my decision but found not one photo of this dish. I’m familiar with it. It’s a home-style dish called “broad beans and Speck”, very typical in west of Germany. The Speck/pork belly is quite salty. We kept drinking water after this, all the way back home. But otherwise I liked it, being a fan of home-style cooking.
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December is goose month in Germany. I have eaten this meal many times before but now it’s big enough for the both of us. We can no longer eat so much, especially meat. Roasted goose leg with red cabbage, potato dumplings (or bread dumplings if preferred) alongside, as well as apple mush with lingonberries.
We arrived at quarter after 11am and the place was already half full and almost all tables were reserved. This restaurant is always full but yesterday was exceptionally busy. Turned out there was a football match taking place sometime in the afternoon. The locals are passionate about the home team. Servers kept making rounds non stop with trays full of beer. The whole restaurant was loud (no music, just people talking) and extremely crowded. I was in a pub in Rotherham, UK on a football match afternoon and the insanity was similar but the food served was only snacks.
Just want to show you how crowded it was outside the restaurant. Inside was the same but people were all sitting down. Just insane.
December is goose month in Germany. Some restaurants/cafes/bakeries still make their own cakes and pastries and are proud of it.
Convenience shop “Beer Paradise”. I was in a hurry but next time I’ll pop in to inspect. Doesn’t look like my kind of beer paradise.
Why do I always make photos of a place’s manhole cover?
I don’t do Christmas-NY holidays in Germany for some years now so I only come here to buy enough Lebkuchen to last me until new year. I miss the good stuff in Germany’s south.
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Always have to go past the Christmas market stalls on the way to somewhere.
The texts get more and more cheesy the more you look
The partner wanted to look for Aachener Printen so we had to endure the revolting smell of Glühwein.
Found the stall and got 2 small bags
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Wanted to look for something in the household section at a department store but couldn’t find it. Full range of Staub in the store like it’s nothing whilst I have to order it online at home.
These things are a sore eye, everywhere in Europe these days.
Time to hit the market and get bread. The partner was inside but I couldn’t bear it. This bakery is always crazy crowded. Germany knows how to do Christmas and they can’t wait.
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We have bought almost all the kinds of breads they make here
The market is also always crazy busy on Saturday
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A big poster of Christstollen to tempt you. It’s like fruit cake with marzipan or almond paste.
Making our way back to the train station. Not time to leave yet, just wanted to check out the huge cookery mag section in a book shop inside.
Europe’s biggest economy, world’s most powerful passport, and your pay master.
Big cities are like extroverts. I can take them in tiny doses then I run for the hills and there where I hide for months.
My own weekend lunch is simpler and meatless: baked beet “falafel”.
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I hate these too. There’s been too many accidents with serious injuries and deaths to pedestrians in my country. I was hit by one Caucasian student zooming around in a crowded shopping zone and he didn’t even stop to apologize.
Which is a better place to visit during winter - France or Germany? Have never been to Europe before and I’m quite keen to visit a X’mas market!
My simple lunch today - ikura on multigrain rice and shiitake + wakame miso soup. Lunch for past few weeks were always porridge due to a bad cold, fever and cough.
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Do you know how they remove the roe? They rub the roe sac on a metal board with holes. The roe fall through the holes. I watched it at a market in Hokkaido.
Re Christmas markets: I’m probably not the right person to ask. I try my best to avoid them that’s why I always go on holidays around that time of year to countries which don’t do Christmas.
Germany has many big Christmas markets in big cities. I find it too commercialised these days. If you have been to one you have seen it all. In some smaller towns they also have a medieval theme. Austria also has Christmas markets. I’ve been to one in Colmar, France. The same insanity in a different country (super crowded and lots of shopping opportunities).
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A little boring for today’s meal.
Just steamed multigrain rice and nameko + tofu miso soup. Gonna try something else when the mister is away for a week.
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Solo lunch on a weekend.
Leftover pork belly mixed rice;
Japanese cucumber and wakame in vinegar dressing; and
mountain yam and aburaage miso soup.
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Look up Okinawan cuisine. I think you’ll like it. I spent 2 fantastic weeks in Okinawa last year and really enjoyed the food. Foodwise it’s more Taiwanese and S.E Asian than Japanese. But then Okinawa is culturally not really “Japanese”. It’s “the other Japan”.
Turkish poached eggs and garlicky yogurt, topped with melted butter with paprika and chilli flakes added.
Octopus with “giant beans”. I looked it up, it’s jack beans. In Germanic languages it’s called “giant beans”.
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Yum to octopus and beans!
Re yogurt and eggs - I have still not reconciled the combination in my head, even though I know it’s classic Turkish. 
WHOA. Gorgeous! Tell me more about those eggs and yogurt, please!
@thwysg, you always post such delicious looking bowls of miso soup.
I have never made my own. Yet. Are there any tips you might care to share with someone preparing miso soup for the first time? Such as is there a type/brand of miso that you prefer—or even avoid?
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Thanks, everyone!
I first learnt to make Turkish poached eggs with yogurt from a recipe. Found out later Nigella had a vid of her making it. She makes it look easy and yummy. Check it out in youtube vid below:
This dish, Çilbir, seems a bit strange to most of us. Turks are amongst the biggest yogurt consumers and they know more ways to eat it or incorporate it into the cuisine.
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Yes, making this over the weekend. The color on that yoke of hers. WOW.
“Strammer Max” is a slice of bread with air-dried ham and a fried egg. “Otto” has roast beef.
Max and Otto together. Neufchâtel from Normandy.
Bought in Düsseldorf. Will have to last us until new year.
Für Elise (a play on words). Elisenlebkuchen has PDO status.
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