This week we tantalized our palates with a simple but highly satisfying, hearty meal. As a nod to our growing number of readers from Germany, we enjoyed a large steamy sausage and mashed potatoes with glazed onions. The most time consuming part was boiling the potatoes to creamy perfection. We left them cooking on high heat for approximately 45 minutes and made two potatoes per person. Once cooked, we peeled and mashed them, adding pepper and salt to taste. We bought the potatoes, sausage, and onion at TJs. The sausages that we cooked this week were the jalapeno chicken and the garlic chicken sausages. Both are repeat purchases, highly flavorful.
We cooked the sausages in a pan for a few minutes and then added sliced onions til caramelized to perfection.
Note for our vegetarian fans: one of us is proud to announce her third week red meat free.
Sorry, no beer for today: only Tazo Chai and TJ's Organic Green Tea. It is that time of the year--with finals approaching, we needed an extra kick of caffeine.
Food for Thought:
Given that this week we've been mostly consumed reading our classmates' drafts, we needed an escape from the banal to the fantastic in the form of Gunther. For those unfamiliar, Mr. Gunther is best known (to us at least) for his wonderful lyrical piece, "Ding Ding Dong," a masterpiece from his album "Pleasureman." Keep Gunther in mind next time you get the urge to reach out and touch someone's tralalala.
What's coming up? Feasts of the Russian and Latin American persuasion and much more!
ooooo tralala ding ding dong!
ReplyDeleteI'm excited for the Russian cuisine! One time I had an appetizer called 'fried lard with lard sauce'. (It may be time to rethink the word 'appetizer'…)