A Cure for Avian Flu??

Toni, your recipe sounds wonderful! Yes, what I make is a sort of kraut rouxe. I've never tried tomato in kraut. Boy, it sounds like everybody is having kraut today! Wonder what that will do to the ozone layer!

I will pick up some kraut and sausages soon. This is unfair I'm on the road and really hungry now.
Sidney

I knew I smelled something funny in the air lately! LOL!!!

Weezingreens, I only add about half a tomato and that's only b/c mama does it. She says it adds a bit of "something". I think what it adds is color. You can also use a bit of paprika if you like.

Has anyone here tried bigos (hunter's stew)? It's a polish dish of sauerkraut, mushrooms, onions and at least 3 to 5 different types of meat: pork, beef, sausage, veal, rabbit, goose, chicken, duck. It's very good and a meal in itself.

Toni I recon it is a meal in it's self, having a hunter handy is the first priority I'm sure.
LOL
;)

Sugarweed, the only "hunting" we do in this house is through the supermarket's meat compartments. LOL!!! I'de have to be starving to kill my dinner, but I don't have a problem with people who hunt and eat their kill.

Me too, and me neither. If the kill it they BETTER eat it or make sure it's offered to someone who will.
I hunt with a camera, but I fish to eat. No catch and release here.
I could eat fresh fish at least once a day.
Not with sauerkraut though.
Well, maybe, let me think.
Whitefish and kraut might be very good.
Sidney

Sidney, I feel the same way about catch and release. Why hurt the fish for sport? If you're gonna catch it, then eat it. My hubby likes to fish and will only release if it's not regulation sized (seems like the fish & game warden always shows up when you least expect him)!

Oh, yeah, I do that too but my favorite spot, Lake Okeechobee has so many good sized fish this time of year. I think I will try to get down there when I get back to Fl soon.
Sidney

Lucky you! No fishing for hubby till next spring; it's too cold!

Come to Minnesota, about Thanksgiving, ice fishing starts. No you don't fish for ice! The lakes freeze over & you go out, cut a hole in the ice & fish. To stay warm, you build a little ice house to sit in. Some of these ice houses can cost thousands of dollors. I heard of one last winter that had cost $35,000.00.
I built my first one when I was 10 years old. Probably had about $10 worth of materials at that time. It was 4' x 6'. Pulled it done to the lake behind the tractor.
I grew up in Brainerd, MN, near South Long Lake. Ice would easily get to 48" thick in a winter.
Bernie

You tell 'em Bernie, I grew up on the south shore of Lake Superior and most folks don't know what real cold is. My dad used to make a small fire under his model T to get the oil warm enough for the engine to turn over. They closed school when it got to 40 below,because the school buses ran on diesel fuel and it jells at that temp! Even sauerkraut wouldn't keep you warm then!! And don't anybody light a match!!!

Bernie & Meezersfive, the only ice fishing hubby is willing to do is at Pier 14 at Jewel! LOL!!! He's frantically looking for his longjohns b/c we're supposed to have a few snow flakes today!

Back in the early 70's, I lived in a small Northern Wisconsin town near the Minnesota border. Yes, the winters were verrrry cold! It was my second favorite place to live, Alaska being first! As I recall, that is where I made my first batch of homemade sauerkraut. Everybody up there put food by all summer and fall. They fished from the many lakes, gardened, picked wild raspberries, and hunted deer in the fall or butchered livestock. As I recall we went to a community get-together where they made a stew from all sorts of wild game... it was called something like 'buoya'... that's been wayyy to long to recall for sure.

Booya!!!! There's a word from my childhood, and it is exactly what Weezin said, a mixture of wild game like a big stew!!! Don't know what the origin of the word is but suspect it may be French. Who knows?

There was quite a Scandinavian population there, but I don't know if that was the origin... could also be Native American. There was some sort of annual breakfast at which they offered these little round balls of pancake like dough, cooked in special skillets. It was served with a choice of several berry sauces...yummmm!

The coldest night I survived was -47º. I was working for DHIA,(Dairy Herd Improvement,). I was at a farm near Pine River, MN. The lady of the house was very much with child. After milking & checking the cows, we had a nice supper, I was shown my room, & retired for the night. In the morning the farmers father called me. When I asked where the family was, he informed me that baby decided to be born, so they headed for Brainerd Hospital during the night. There car was a 1947 model. (This was 1962.) They met the doctor at Pine River & they went in his car the rest of the way. When we went to milk the cows, it was -47º. Milkers wouldn't even work untill we warmed them up.
Fabolus stories from the north country.
Bernie

As I recall, when the temps dropped that low, touching a door knob with bare hands felt as if I were being burned. Standing outside the back door, I could hear my own heart beating, and the snow on the sidewalk made a snapping noise as I walked.

I used to work with a nurse who said she would take a teaspoon of vinegar every morning to prevent colds and flu. The bad news was she never missed any work. The acid would just kill my stomach.
I have added a bit of brown sugar to sauerkraut on occasion. I like to make the pork country style ribs in the oven and cover them with sauerkraut. After they are done, I mix the kraut in with mashed potatoes on my plate, with lots of butter on the taters. YUM! I even bought some the other day.
I used to love this stuff, then after divorcing my first husband, married a non-German ancestory man. So my German style cooking is not too impressive to my Scottish background husband now.
Still we all have to sacrifice once in a while, and later on this week, the pork and kraut is going to make the supper menu. LOL

Perhaps we should all eat sauerkraut on the same day and see if it affects the weather fronts.

Windy, he could ask for Haggis, LOL.

How about haggis & kraut? Yuck!

All this talk about Northern weather and food is making me hungry for potato sausage. I use my grandmother's recipe, it's always good. She used to make a dish with salt cod in a white sauce, and also Kroppkokkor, which are potato dumplings with a salt pork ,onion, and nutmeg filling. We loved to visit her house, and watch her fill her coffee cup, and cool her coffee by pouring it into her saucer and drinking from it.

Windy,
I hated the very sour taste of vinegar. Now I take an apple cider/vinegar tablet daily and that is painless.

-25° is the coldest ever here. At that temp you feel like you could freeze to death outside in about 5 minutes.

All this talk of kimchee and sauerkraut has me wondering about all the different fermented veggies our member Roger (in Sweden, I think) makes. Hmmm...

meezers, those are wonderful memories.

For those of you who like Pierogis & Sauerkraut (& who doesn't - lol?), I can personally attest that this place makes FABULOUS ones that are very reasonably priced. I've both ordered them for myself as well as sent them as gifts, & have nothing but good things to say about them. What with the holidays coming & everything. . . .

http://www.milliespierogi.com/

While I've never tried the Prune or Blueberry fillings (not a big fan of "sweet" pierogi), the Potato & Cheese (farmers cheese) & plain Cheese (farmers cheese) are both very good, but the piece de resistance are the Cabbage-filled ones, which are actually a mix of both cabbage & sauerkraut. Sauteed in some butter & served with a blob of sour cream on the side - pure heaven!!!!

And now that sauerkraut might protect me from Avian Flu, I guess I'm going to be forced to order a few trays - lol!!!!

This message was edited Nov 19, 2005 2:51 PM

This message was edited Nov 19, 2005 2:53 PM