Porchetta
↓Deutsch What should not be missing at any Italian festival is the small pig, the porccetta. Originally, this is simply a suckling pig that has had all its bones removed,…[...]
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Freshwater fish meuniere – Süßwasserfisch auf Müllerin Art
↓Deutsch In contrast to trout or char black-forest style, the fish is not breaded like a schnitzel, but only floured. The flour binds non-washable remnants of the mucus and the…[...]
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Salt cake – Salzekuchen, Blatz oder Bloaz
[caption id="attachment_9453" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Salt cake on the left without and on the right with bacon cubes.Salzekuchen links ohne und rechts mit Speckwürfel.[/caption] ↓Deutsch This dish is mainly found in…[...]
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Vegetable soup „Across the garden“ – Quer durch den Garten
↓Deutsch 'Quer durch den Garten‘ (Across the garden) is a vegetable stew that I know from my two roots, the Palatinate and Hesse. By the geographical proximity to France it…[...]
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Loin spare ribs after Björn Freitag’s grandmother – Dicke Rippe nach der Oma von Björn Freitag
↓Deutsch The WDR (West German Broadcasting) recently broadcast what felt like the 500th repeat of the Vorkoster cooking show, the topic of meat on a stick, i.e. chops, ribs, etc.…[...]
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Potato croquettes – Kartoffelkroketten
↓Deutsch Seen in this way, croquettes made from potato dough are the finer big brothers of French fries. Crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, seasoned with salt,…[...]
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Broken beans – Brockelbohnen
[caption id="attachment_9252" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Broken beans with the matching drink, a Riesling spritzer.Brockelbohnen mit dem passenden Getränk, einer Rieslingschorle.[/caption] ↓Deutsch This is an especially popular stew in the Palatinate, because…[...]
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Shrimp sandwich – Garnelensandwich
↓Deutsch This recipe is also a derivative of the lobster sandwich, just like the old recipe. Since lobster is too expensive for something like that here in Germany, I have…[...]
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Short visit to Frankfurt in June 2024 – Kurzbesuch in Frankfurt im Juni 2024
E: On Wednesday we drove back towards our old home in Hesse/Rhine-Main area. We left at around 12:00 and arrived relatively uneventfully at 2:00 p.m. We had pre-booked a double…[...]
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Plum sauce – Zwetschgensauce
↓Deutsch The sauce was created on a whim. There was still a lot of meat left over from the last road kill chicken, which was to be used for the…[...]
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