Apr 032012
 
Tortellini-Vegetable Gratin

Tortellini are not really German, but the way to cook them in this recipe is for sure German. It is one of my favorite gratins. You can vary the dish with different vegetable like carrots, peas, cauliflower, or aubergine. Vary it with different cheese too. Serve with green lettuce or just plain. Ingredients (serves 3-4) [read more...]

Mar 152012
 
Curry Ketchup and Currywurst

Currywurst (curry sausage) is very popular in Germany and it started when a German lady named Herta Heuwer served it on September 4, 1949 at her street booth in Berlin, corner Kant/Kaiser Friedrich Strasse in Charlottenburg.  It was not the sausages that made her famous, it was her special curry ketchup. In 1959 the given [read more...]

Feb 162012
 
Green Sauce - How they make it in Frankfurt

It was one of Goethe’s favorite dishes: boiled potatoes and eggs with green sauce. The healthy-green sauce came from France where it was called “Sauce verte”. In Italy is is popular under the name “Salsa verde” and in Germany it is a specialty of Frankfurt. There they call it “Grie Soss”. You can make it [read more...]

Jan 262012
 
Ribbon Pasta with Fried Cabbage

A different way to cook cabbage. Easy to make pasta dish with fried cabbage and cabanossi sausage. Cabanossi is a type of dry sausage, similar to a mild salami. It is made from pork and beef, lightly seasoned and then smoked. It is a European sausage and not so easy to find in the USA. [read more...]