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| Cappy |
 Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 6:17 am |
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Oh its very famous in the whole north, the people between Bremen and Oldenburg just claim its their National Food. Take the time and cook it slowly and you should get the perfect recipe.
For the pinkel, you can also toy around with other types of hefty sausages or smoked pork chops. There are a few variations with the meat, kinda like invented after the WW2. People did eat Gr�nkohl without meat the first years, when they got a piece of meat they just put it in. And later as they had some money they started to put meat always in. Symbolic for never have to fear hunger again.
Short story how the healthy dish became fat  |
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| Buck Toff |
| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 5:03 pm |
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One thing I didn't mention that really helps too is putting some oatmeal in at the very end to soak up all the extra water and grease. Next time I may try some buckwheat as well since the role of the Pinkel is to be broken open to alow the buckwheat and oats to spill out and be mixed with the dish (some Englishman described Grunkohl with Pinkel as Germany's answer to the Scot's dish Haggis, probably due to the oats and buckwheat contained within the Pinkel).
I'll also use your advice and try different sausage and/or pork chops, and perhaps a meatless version as well. I enjoy sauteeing steamed kale in a frying pan with onions and garlic in olive oil for awhile before scrambling some eggs in. It makes a nice "Fr�hst�ck" (breakfast), so I know meat is not necessary to enjoy kale.
And speaking of Germany, much of my time there was spent in the country and farmland region, which I found to be really nice, preferable to the cities actually, (must be the the country boy in me). Even though it was winter, my local host and I would often ride bicycles to get around, as her friends lived on a farm nearby, and it was fun to explore that way due to the many bicycle paths and quiet country roads.
I noticed that many farmyards had large earthen mounds with a doorway at one end (kind of like a hobbit house with no windows!). I asked my host what they were and she said since she was a child, she had assumed they were bomb shelters left over from WWII. I asked if they actually bombed any farms in the area and she said no, so I asked if maybe they were not bomb shelters, but perhaps root cellars for storing vegetables. She thought about this quietly for a couple seconds, and then she looked at me with this hilarious look of half-revelation and half-embarrasment as she was suddenly struck with the realization that despite what she had thought all her life, the mounds were in fact root cellars and could not logically have been anything else! ha ha Leave it to a foreigner to look at something differently! |
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| Cappy |
| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:15 am |
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Even i live in the City i still prefer the bicycle (or skateboard), it�s always faster as a car here. I life pretty much on the end of the city, but as i only have the Midland/Stich Canal to cross, i�m next to the Herrenhausen Gardens and in the middle of the city. So i have both, Countryside trees, water, large fields around and still the city with the concrete for skating.
Normally i could use a boat too, to get in the city. Maybe one day, when i have to much time and money, i make a driving licence for boats.
The North of germany had many airattacks in the WW2. They still found some old bombs every year here, there are so many still to find - i could sit on one without knowing. Wait, where is that ticking coming from.. 
Also alot of bombs got wrong on farms or small country towns. In the Citys they had bunkers, but on the country? - don�t know how they tried to protect themselfs. Maybe thats why she thought of using that small house. |
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