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Post by Chuckie on Feb 24, 2019 17:21:30 GMT -5
This was in The Leavenworth Times maybe 24 years ago(!!), and was stove top cooking. I always liked it, and we made up the sauce ourselves. Well today, I thought I'd give it a go in the thermowell. Will let you know how it comes out.. CHEERS! Chuckie GERMAN BOILED DINNEROne (or two) kielbasa sausage 1.5 pounds of new potatoes (I bought that bag of washed spuds, 3 color) One head cabbage MUSTARD BUTTER SAUCE1/2 stick butter 2-TBS hot mustard (more/less to taste) 1-TBS caraway seeds Put potatoes in large thermowell pot. Add enough water to cover. Add salt if desired (I used both garlic & onion salt) Lace kielbasa over potatoes (I used two so I'd have leftovers for the week). Sausage/Cabbage do NOT need to be "IN" the water, they're gonna just steam: :Peel a few of the outer leaves off the cabbage. Cut cabbage in two top to bottom. Cut center core outta cabbage, then quarter cabbage by cutting halves once again top to bottom. Lay cut side down on top of sausage in pan:Burn gas 10 minutes, then turn off gas and CWTGTO for one hour or longer. I put ours in at 3:00, will let you know how it comes out around 6:30 or so. SAUCEJust before ready to eat, melt butter in saucepan or microwave. Stir in desired amount of mustard, add caraway seeds, remove from heat. Pour over individual servings of spuds, cabbage & potatoes. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The ORIGINAL recipe in the paper had you bring same amount of H20 to boil, drop in potatoes, lace sausage over, then place cabbage on top to steam with lid on. Cook 15 minutes. I'm afraid the potatoes may be TOO done this way, but will post update.
------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE: Took it out about 6:45. THOUGHT the cabbage was PERFECT---as it was a nice, bright green--and the sausage had 'pinked' like it does when cooked. The potatoes, however, were still hard as a BRICK, and the inner/thicker cabbage was a little too al dente for me as well... Suggestions for next time would be to either run the gas for TWENTY minutes, or else put the spuds in for ten minutes, and THEN follow instructions for the rest, and run the gas ten minutes MORE! It was NOT a fiasco by any means. Whilst I made the sauce, w/the low amount of water in the kettle, I turned the fire on high stove top, and left the potatoes in to boil while I did the sauce. Towards the end, I dropped the chunk of kielbasa in over the potatoes to rewarm a bit, put a wedge of cabbage on top, put the lid on until sauce done. PERFECT!!! So a little more time with the gas ON seems to be the answer, so if anybody else makes this, PLEASE update recipe accordingly...
I dug through the recipe box, and even found the ORIGINAL recipe!!! You can SEE how old it is! And I guess we did NOT "invent" the sauce, just the added caraway seeds part!!And there are also TWO other recipes on the left side of this clipping that I'd TOTALLY forgot about!! They're pretty good too!!! You ought to be able to use the twin kettles & make that rice/black bean one, just follow Idlehour rice recipe for thermowell!!
CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by mach12 on Feb 24, 2019 20:40:31 GMT -5
Wow - That's a specialty at one of the Bavarian places I stay when I'm doing training at the Army's training center in Vilseck, Germany. Now I'm hungry for it! Got to have one of their Pilsners with it though. If you're ever over that way, this is the place: www.greifenwirt.de/en/the-golden-griffin/
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Post by karitx on Feb 25, 2019 19:10:05 GMT -5
Okay, I need to remember this so I can try it. I bet it's perfect on a chilly day.
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Post by nana on Feb 25, 2019 19:59:49 GMT -5
I haven't had keilbasa in quite a while, it sure does look tasty! I looked at that clipping though and I had to smile. I just found the time and courage to go through all my mom's old cookbooks. When we moved my dad out there was a lot of stuff like that left after everyone came and took what mementos they wanted. Cookbooks, photo albums, old letters...I couldn't throw it away without inspecting it, but I have 7 or 8 giant boxes of it. This week I had off school, so I decided to go all Marie Kondo on it. Or at least get a start. I went through about 30 old cookbooks of varying levels of interest, each one stuffed in no particular order with dozens and dozens of recipes clipped from magazines and newspapers, going all the way back to the late 50's. Sometimes she put whole pages of the newspaper in if it was a big feature. It was almost more fun reading the articles on the reverse side. One from around 1968 was on how unmarried couples are actually signing into hotels under their own names--Shocking!
Anyway, I recognized 95% of these recipes as long lost twins to the hundreds of recipes I'VE cut out over the years--things I thought were interesting or sounded good, but I have never made them, and I never will.(Oooh, roast goose with truffles and chestnut puree! A lot were from the New York Times--Mimi Sheraton and Craig Claiborne stuff. She never made them either.) 4% were variations on themes in which she was already well versed, and 1% were things I might use myself. Almost all of them crumbling and yellowed with age, practically turning to dust as I touched them. So I pictured her cutting them out, thought of her with love, and tossed almost all of them. I know all the things she made that she still might have needed a recipe for were written on index cards in her recipe box. So it was a little painful, but necessary. Like ripping off an old band aid. I'll keep the cookbooks I want, and donate the rest.
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Post by karitx on Feb 26, 2019 13:24:31 GMT -5
I'm going through something similar with my parents' stuff, Nana, so I understand. It's bittersweet for sure, but I am trying to come to terms with letting things go. Incidentally, I just found a half a page of newspaper from 1975 in one of Mom's cookbooks. I think she saved the side with slow cooker recipes, but the side that caught my eye was an article about Mary Poppins in the Kitchen and included a recipe from the book for "Ceiling Cake". I made it over the weekend, just for fun.
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Post by nana on Feb 26, 2019 18:07:54 GMT -5
My mom wanted my daughter to name HER daughter Hannah, because that was my mom's mother's name, and my mom was sad that when she died there would be no one left alive who remembered her mother. But I pointed out that eventually that happens to everyone. Even famous people--their name and a few of their accomplishments get remembered, but not who they really were. We all vanish into the mists of time.
Even if you kept everything your loved ones ever touched, sooner or later it would no longer have meaning to anyone beyond any intrinsic value it had. I have a real tendency to hang on to things out of sentiment whether or not I have use for them or even like them. And we all on this forum share the same addiction to the vintage, well made and still useful! But there is only so much room in a house. I don't want to be a hoarder!
I find that what has helped me winnow things out is: to first decide is it truly special, valuable or irreplaceable? Things like my mom's wedding ring, or a portrait painted of her as a child by a patient of her father's. Those are keepers. If it is valuable, but no one in the family wants or needs it, then sell it, and don't feel bad because it will bring happiness to whoever buys it. We got rid of a lot of stuff like that once we stopped thinking of it as disloyal and thought of it kind of like helping the denizens of the Isle of Misfit Toys who were never truly happy until they were loved by a child. Things were able to find a new life instead of being stored in an attic out of guilt. Things that were useful but not really valuable, like decent sets of sheets and towels, got donated, with the same heartfelt wish that they help someone out who needs them or wants them. Where would we vintage aficionados be if people didn't do that, right?
And then there's the vast category of things that are useless, valueless, but somehow so dear because our loved one's hands touched them, or they wore them, or we remember where they were hanging on the wall or sat upon the mantel, or on the shelf. You have to look at it honestly--if I saw this in a thrift shop would I consider it fit for anyone to buy? And if the answer is no, then hold it to your heart, think about it with love, allow the memories to become part of you, and let it go. It's the only way.
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Post by cinnabar on Feb 27, 2019 11:59:55 GMT -5
Before we started to clean out and divide my parents home I photographed every, room, corner and closet so we would have the memory documented of the last 49 years. The house sold and is supposed to close in 2 weeks. It is not ours anymore it is empty and free, but the memories and family heirlooms are kept. Maybe over time I( and my siblings) will be able to sort through and release some of the possessions that need to live on elsewhere. (I only took 6 of mom's cookbooks, the rest are donated or my sisters took them.)
BTW, the kielbasa dinner is a lot like my sisters soup, but we add carrots. Delish.
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Post by nana on Feb 27, 2019 17:58:46 GMT -5
My daughter moved into my parent's house, and although it clearly is now HER family's house, enough remains that was my parents to honor them and be kind of like when you smell a whiff of someone's perfume and you think of them. It's nice. It feels like good continuity. When my dad first came back to visit at Christmas after having moved out in September he was kind of marvelling at it. "It's my house!" he said, but when dinner was over and he was getting tired he told my brother to take him home, meaning his assisted living home. He had no trouble letting go once he actually left it.
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