Mahlzeit - Food without Borders

What I Always Have In The Fridge Or The Pantry In the fridge/freezer Tomato, Cucumber, Mushrooms Frozen Herbs Eckridge Turkey Sausage   Sour Creme of some sort Milk different kind of cheeses including lots of Feta (Feta I buy bulk at whole sale e.g. BJ's) Famous Dave's Signature Spicy Dill Pickle Chips (once opened), and there is a backup jar in the pantry.  In the pantry cans of different Progresso soups balsamic vinegar EVOO Semolina Flower, potato and corn starch Mondamin sauce binder (this is a German product) Almonds, pecans and walnuts tons of spices onions, potato, garlic rice, rice noodles, other fast cooking Mexican noodles, quinoa Maggie Tomato/Chicken Bullion powder (the large jars are hard to come buy these days) Lea & Perrines Worcestershire Sauce (there is just nothing else, I tried many others and no, it is not the same) As you can see, where I say company names, these are the products I use. I really like them and I am not getting paid to mention them....

It was time to get another pack of ground turkey. The choices were, yet another chili, the attempt to make Leberkaese with ground turkey (now that I spell it out is intrigues me, but it is time consuming), or a cross over from Soljanka into a spaghetti ground meat sauce. I decided for the last one. We need 1 big package of ground turkey (usually has 3 lbs) 1 tsp sweet paprika 1 tsp ground cumin 1 tsp of curry 1 tsp of ground allspice 1 tbsp of chili 1/2 of a 7 oz can of Chipotle peppers in Adobo sauce 1 4 oz glas of pimento peppers 1/2 cup of Famous Dave's Spicy Pickles juice 1/2 cup of Famous Dave's Spicy Pickes chopped 2 cans of 14.5 oz fire roasted tomatoes 1 tbsp veggie oil 1 slice of bacon chopped 1 medium onion chopped 2 cups of water 1/4 cup of half/half (fat free is fine) In a big high rim skillet (otherwise take a pot), render the bacon and when it gets translucent add the oil and the chopped onions. When the onions are translucent at the ground turkey. I keep chopping...

It was finally time to get the smoker to work again. I had a back leg of a deer in my freezer for some time. This was my choice for this weekend. It look 2 days to get it defrosted. But finally it it was all ready. The spice rub: The smoker was set for 225F using a brisket pellet mix from Traeger. About every 45 min or there about I did some basting with the Voodoo Sauce. This is really stuff is spectacular. Old Bay seasoning has enough salt. For me it was ok to use other salt free seasoning. After about 8h, the inner temperature was at 137F (medium). I don't like it when meat goes chewy. After about 30 minutes rest time, it was time to cut.   Yummy, yummy in my tammy. I was expecting some gaminess, but there was none at all. This is a home run. -Mahlzeit-        

It is about time to have a Crawfish boil again. It is high season right now. The spices one can buy are really spicy. While I like spicy, they are a bit to spicy for me. I also do not have a Crawfish right now. So a mix of shrimps and mussels will have to do it.   I used 3/4 lbs of deveined and cleaned shrimps 1 lbs of mussels (any kind is fine) 1 pack Eckrich Turkey Sausage sliced 1 1 large onion coarsely chopped 1 pack of frozen corn kernels  4 medium potatoes, chopped into bite size pieces (peeled or unpeeled is fine) 1 cup low sodium beef broth (optional, add 1 cup to water if you dont have this) 4 cups of water 3 tsp Maggie Tomato bullion 1 tbsp veggie oil 1 tbsp of margarine In a big pot, melt the veggie oil and the margarine. Add the onions and the sausage and cook for about 7-10 minutes. There should be some color on the sausage slices and the onions should be translucent. But the mussels and the shrimp add everything else, bring to a boil and simmer until the potatoes...

I watched some cooking show this morning when I was waking up. I don't remember if it was Valerie, Trisha or Ree. The talk was about a creamy cauliflower soup. Now there is an idea. I didn't feel like running a soup through the blender. Other then potatoes and cauliflower I don't remember anything about it... Sorry, I was waking up... Now there was a cauliflower in my fridge, there is a package of Eckridge Turkey Sausage. I can make something out of this. 1/2 bag of baby carrots 1 tbsp of margarine 1 cup of celery chopped 1 medium onion chopped 4 potatoes chopped into bite size pieces 1 head of cauliflower cleaned and cut into pieces 1 pack of Eckridge Turkey Sausage cut into slices 6 cups of water 2 tsp of ground all spice 2 bay leaves 2/3 tsp dried thyme 4 tsp of Knorr Tomato Bouillon In a stock pot melt the margarine, add the onions and let them get translucent. Then add the carrots, celery and sausage. Cook for about 10 minutes to get some color on the sausage and the o...

I always wanted to make some bread dumplings. Together with a mushroom ragout this is delicious. I found a recipe that sounded good, all posted in German and a ton of commercials on the page.  So this post will be a rather lengthy one.   Bread Dumplings I dried hot dog buns. Big mistake. They have a sweet after taste. Not what I want in my dumplings. Right now there is a french baguette, cut in half in over the length and it is drying now for the next week. The recipe calls for 11 oz of dried bread cut into cubes 1 cup of hot milk 1 medium onion cut very finely 1 tbsp of butter a hand full of chopped parsley (I used flat leaves parsley)  1/2 tsp of salt 1/4 tsp of ground black pepper a little bit of ground nutmeg If needed bread crumbs if needed In a big bowl add the dried cubes of bread crumbs.  Heat up the milk. On the rim it should start to show little bubbles. Do not cook it, but should be to hot to stick the finger in. Pour the milk over the bread crumbs. Stir i...

In the grocery store I found pork butt steaks. We ate a lot of them from a grill growing up. Normally they marinate at least 24 in beer and onions. I decided to just take one, salt and pepper on each side and onto the BBQ it goes. As a side I wanted to try grilled melon. Each side from the pork about 10 minutes. And the melon about 4 minutes a side. Serve with another veggie. -Mahlzeit-