My partner in Teamworks is Loretta Harder and her wonderful husband Frank is a native of Rostock Germany. Well this month Franks parents Werner & Sidgrid are visiting from Germany. They are a delight and so very willing to step in and help out.
Well for those of you who do not know my husband John has spent 12 years of his life in Germany I swear the boy wishes he were German. So Loretta and I decided to have Franks parents over to the house to cook a traditional German meal. We let John pick the menu which was Wiener Schnitzel , gherkin salad and bratkartofelen potatoes. If you are not aware Wiener Schnitzel is made from Veal. Well little did we know how hard that was to find. So after sending John to the commissary which I was sure would have it they have everything... Nope not this! Apparently veal is too expensive and they only carry it on special holidays? That should have been our first clue. So then we head to Butcher boys meat shop it is a new butcher in town and it was all I could do not to empty my checking acct before leaving the store. Well they had only veal for veal scallopini not schnitzel.
This is what we were looking for.
So we headed to the office to google local butcher shops to try and find this hard to find meat. A call to Fresh Market in Macon finally revealed an end to our search.
So Loretta and I headed that direction, my first visit to Fresh Market and all I can say is I am hooked. Well our big surprise was that veal is $18.98 lb. Holy cow well actually Holy calf.
So after our BIG purchase was made along with several bottles of wine, Who can have good German food with out wine and beer? Not me!
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Siegred preparing the potatoes |
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Mushroom sauce this was made especially for me! Yumm love me some mushrooms. |
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This is the bratkartoflen for John must say it was very good my kids loved it. Of this there were no leftovers. |
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The now famous Veal steaks note the wine glass who can cook without wine? |
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The kids we made them all show for dinner |
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Can you smell that? Opps I mean can you imagine how good that smelled? |
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The Chef extraordinaire | | | |
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This is John and Werner speaking some German my husband was in heaven. And I think Frank was happy not to have to be translating . Just saying. |
Wish I had a picture of the finished meal but alas we dug into it before I could locate my camera. Needless to say it was wonderful, and a good time was had by all. I will echo Loretta's sentiments that the potatoes were wonderful but I don't think they are ever anything I would make myself. That was a lot of work and a lot of steps for fried potatoes. We loved having the Harders over for fellowship and wonderful food that I did not have to cook.
Just wanted to share with you. Have a great weekend.
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