#Lille #travel #photo

Very rainy and windy day.

NOT the right weather for pictures

So that was day one in #DeHaan

If I trust the weather report, always a bit iffy on the Northsea cost, this was it for non-rainy days with bits of clear sky.

Setting: typical Belgian Kust town. Holiday apartments up to the promenade overlooking the beach.

Further inland a surprisingly pleasant town. Might be the nicest we’ve been to.

Anyway, the kites made it to the beach, but because nice weather, not really enough wind. There’ll be other days.

Shopped for dinner and back to the „house“

#Kust #Noordzee #Northsea #Nordsee #beach #Strand

#travel #photo

#Christmas Garden @ Cologne Zoo

Illumination in the zoological gardens

Sauerbraten f/u

#recipe

In www.zahr.koeln/2022/12/1… I put the beef into the marinade.

Today took it out of the marinade and salted, peppered and browned the meat all around. The meat went with diced carrots, celeriac, leek, onion into a cast iron pot. Added Pumpernickel and Lebkuchen, 1 l of beef broth and enough of the marinade to mostly cover. Brought to a simmer. Now for 3 h in the oven at 120 C

The sauce will be done tomorrow.

So, Cristmas Lunch prep done. #Sauerbraten #recipe

2.5 kg of beef (leg) will marinate for a week in 1l of red wine, 0.5l of red wine vinegar, water so that the meat is covered.

spices: onions, coriander, pepper, allspice, paprika, juniper berries, mustard seeds, ginger, bay leaves, cloves, cinnamon, thyme, mace, carrot, leek, celeriac, parsley

Cemetery (the rest of the lot?)

#photography #cemetery #NordfriedhofKöln

Cemetery

#cemetery #photography #NordfriedhofKöln

Gänseschmalz - Goose fat

Poured into an ice cube bag yesterday, now going from fridge to freezer. This is about half the fat from a goose dinner for eight.

#Gänseschmalz #GooseFat #Recipe

Autumn

#photography

Sunday Dinner

Potatoes, 1 kg Carrots, 1 kg Onions, 2 Sausage, 5 (Grobe Bratwurst) Rosemary Thyme Salt Lemon, 1/2 TSp Pepper, 1 TSp Salt Olive Oil

180 C, 1 hour

#SundayDinner #recipe