Sauerbraten

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

Beef in Sauerbraten marinade, spices floating on the surface

Cemetery (the rest of the lot?)

#photography #cemetery #NordfriedhofKöln

Two gravestones, black, with cross on top on the left, greyish on the rightGrey headstone with relief of an angelAbstracted Cologne Cathedral as a gravestone

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

Goose fat in ice cube bag ready to freeze

Braised Savoy Cabbage

  • Salsicca or Rhenish Coarse Sausage, 5 links, filling off
  • Chopped onions, about 4
  • Garlic, 1 bulb
  • Goose fat, or butter, 1 tablespoon
  • Stock, about 400 ml
  • Savoy Cabbage, medium size, quartered and sliced into 1 cm strips
  • Rosemary
  • Thyme
  • Pepper, ground from 1/2 tablespoon of pepper corns
  • Chilli, dried, ground, 1
  • Salt

Soften the chopped onion in the goose fat, add the sausage meat and break it up.

Add herbs, salt and spices.

When sausage meat is fried add the cabbage. When the cabbage starts to collapse add the stock and braise for 15 minutes.

Serve with substantial pasta.

#recipe #SavoyCabbage #Wirsing #Schawur

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

Roast potatoe, carrots, sausage, onion

Some commitments are way easier than other

Eg having at least one, ideally two good cups of coffee in the morning before leaving the house, or any house really.

Christmas Trees, erection of, time of

Hereabouts (Rhineland) you put up your tree somewhere between the 4th Sunday of Advent and Cristmas Eve. The frequency distribution would be right shifted.

If you wanted festive cheer during the Advent, you had an Adventskranz with four candles. Each week you’d light one more. Had some Weihnachtsgebäck (Christmas cookies) and some songs.

As I see my timeline filling up with people setting up their trees, I start feeling old.

Stable Diffusion

Prompt: Great greek temple, overlooking mediteranean harbour, hyper realistic, detailed, unreal engine, by anselm adams

#AiArt #StableDiffusion

Great greek temple, overlooking mediteranean harbour, hyper realistic, detailed, unreal engine, by anselm adams