6 posts tagged “food”

and then a four-layer pumpkin torte. my brother is a fan of kevin rose and yesterday on twitter kev (as i like to call him) mentioned how much he likes this dessert, so we (well, i) had to make it.

the crab cakes were pretty good, although they had to be heated up a bit in the microwave because i made them a bit too early and neglected to keep them warm (oopsie). the kevin rose dessert, as i like to call it, was also good, but i kinda put too much cool whip (err, cool Hwhip) on it, but that was easily corrected with a bit of scrapage. it was a bit too light, imho; the middle two layers (cream cheese and pumpkin) could have been a bit denser.

btw, the pie on the right was bakery-bought. (also delish)

2) "only frat boys don't boycott" (the €500 tuition fee increase), outside the cafeteria

so i really had a craving for sauerkraut, and instead of getting a jar at the store, i saw this packaged meal that i've always wanted to try. it's called a "schlachtplatte":

it uhh, well, contains sauerkraut, blood sausage, liver sausage, and uhh, pork belly slices. :S

hahahaha i should have done some research before (quoted from an entry on epinions):

“Schlachtplatte” – literally translated means “Slaughter dish” – contains every imaginable part of the pig. You will find the tripe (intestines), kidneys, knuckles, etc. Even the blood is not wasted, being turned into “Blutwurst” (blood sausage). The best Schlachtplatte is served up at the farm immediately after a pig has been slaughtered. I am not too fond of this dish myself, but the contents are probably not much different from what you get at any burger joint these days, only that the individual bits and pieces are immediately recognisable, rather than all ground up.

i, of course, have no idea how to cook any of these (except for sauerkraut, which you just heat up). the pork bellies i figured were like fat slabs of bacon (which, as i've now discovered as i'm eating them, are pretty much what they taste like), so that was ok. and i figured you just boiled the sausages.

uhh, no. the blood sausages exploded:

so yeah. umm, blood smells NASTY when it's being boiled :S and it's probably a good thing that they exploded since i remember the last time i had blood sausage (years ago, my first time to germany) i uhh, didn't like it at all. hahahaha but since it was part of the package, i thought i'd just suck it up. (and luckily, i don't have to!)


and there's the finished result. not too bad, i have to say! quite yummy! :) the blobs on the liverwurst are uhh, leftovers from the blood sausage, i guess?

i've had an on-and-off craving for mexican food (today happened to be an off day) and there's really only one place (anyone else notice qype is a ripoff of yelp?) to get it here in town, so i was quite glad to try it out today with danielle, georgiana, and michael (ostensibly to celebrate romanian union day -- georgiana's from there). the food wasn't that bad! i mean, sure, it's been a couple months since i've had mexican food, but this was pretty decent! (which can't be said about the picture; i can't figure out the damn colors, but naja, it's late and i'm lazy.) as is the norm for german restaurants, the food was a bit on the salty side, but still, quite good.

i had most of a chimichanga and 2 fajitas. *bloat* :S mmmmmm

oh another bad thing about german restaurants (other than the salt content of the food) is the fact that it's SO smoky in restaurants. i think a ban is coming in 2007, but we'll see how well it's enforced. bah! i, for one, can't wait!

now, the thing is, first off, i don't trust asian food from non-asian people. pf chang's is about as non-asian as i'm willing to go. (granted, that's pretty non-asian.) in fact, i have a hard time eating asian food in germany since i dunno, it seems downright unauthentic, even if it's made by first-generation immigrants. i don't know why, since sometimes it tastes good, but seeing a german chinese restaurant menu is just bizarre! like i feel it's just a cheap and tawdry imitation.

when i think about it, though there's no reason why foreign international food should be given less credence than american international food, right? although i think there's one thing that supports my claim. there's simply less competition, so inferior restaurants survive longer and people don't know any better.

yes, yes. come to think of it, it's not just limited to international locations. like when i took my random trip to north dakota, seeing a chinese restaurant there was ODD. CREEPY. and i would only eat there if it were the last place on earth. even though it really could have been quite good. but i guess maybe i just have some sort of mental block from being fortunate enough to have lived in the multicultural melting pot that is california.

beef-lang-zu. wtf is that?!