Bavarian Sauerkraut

 

Great sauerkraut - made in Germany. One of the ingredients is white wine. You can read about that sauerkraut experience on our blog HERE.

Turkey & Cornbread Dressing 2024

This year, I rediscovered baking the turkey in an oven bag. Very satisfying result! 

A half of it was eaten during one sitting.

The dressing was tasty as usual. The old recipe is very good. I need to save it from being lost. It used to be available on the net, but (regrettably) that site is gone with the wind.

 

Dressing ingredients:

• 3 stalks of celery,
• 1 medium-size onion,
• 1/3 cup butter,
• 12 slices of one-day-old bread,
• chicken broth - 2 cups,
• milk - 1/2 cup,
• eggs - 2 beaten,
• salt - 1/4tsp,
• poultry seasoning - 1 tsp,
• sage - 1/2 tsp,
• pepper - 1/4 tsp,

Ribs Premiere

Home baked ribs for the first time. Some sliced onion, seasoning, some water + 90 minutes in the oven (375F), and they were ready.

The ribs were quite good - not much fat, lots of good meat on them.

Potato Cakes

When did you last have potato cakes? They work well as a side to a meat entry.

If you happen to have mashed potatoes leftovers, you can make them quite easily. Just add an egg, some flour, diced onion, salt, and pepper. Mix it all together. The dough will be a bit sticky, then the cakes will turn out best.

Put them with a spoon into a pan with hot oil, flatten the sticky dough and fry the potato cakes on both sides until they turn golden brown. 

 

When the cakes are ready, put them for a little while on a plate with a paper towel (to drain the oil).

Serve with ketchup.

Our Easter Ham Steak Leftovers

 History already. The ham steak was good buy - juicy and tasty!

Turkey Adventure

That was quite a stubborn turkey. It stayed in the fridge for 60 hours with the idea (mine not turkey's) that it would get defrosted. It did not. After all that time, it still looked like a block of ice. So it landed in a pot with cold water. The time was passing by, the night was coming, and it was still totally frozen!

It could not stay in that spot for the entire night - it would have got bad and we did not want that. At midnight I set the alarm clock for 2 a.m. (when it rang, I did not why/what for). Then, it was ready to be cooked. Some oiling and seasoning and the turkey finally got to the oven (covered with aluminum foil). Then, there was an option to set the alarm clock for 3 a.m. (the foil needed to be removed after an hour) or stay up and wait. I chose the latter. When the turkey finally got uncovered, setting the alarm clock again. At 6 a.m. it was time to get the meat out of the oven. The turkey was cooked and golden, and I was ready to go back to sleep. Never had I experienced nighttime cooking.