Sunday, January 15, 2012

Food, yum

Everyone's favorite topic no matter how fat or skinny you are, or your dietary preferences. Food is the Universal language no matter who you are. In high school I dabbled in vegetarianism, and was brought down by a juicy medium rare steak, and more recently I tried a vegan diet, while the vegan diet was nice and friendly on my digestive system, I have fallen back to the "American" diet.

Since I have moved and married the love of my life, I have had more of a chance to discover my love of cooking. Last night I attempted something I never even had the inclination to try before, meatballs. Not just any meatballs, I scoured the internet for recipes and the sort, and did what I normally do, I put together the ingredients that I had and created something original. I made my version of Swedish meatballs. I had ground turkey that I added some of the usual suspects, bread crumbs, egg, cheese, onion and garlic. I fried the first batch and decided that it would more than likely be easier and healthier to bake them. I made a gravy with some chicken stock I had on hand, and cooked up some rice. Not going to lie, it was good, granted it needed a little more spice in the meatball, but for my first attempt I was quite good. My husband approved it, which for me was a no brainer since I had rice with dinner and that is his weakness.

Tonight I am going to make something that I love to have, brauts. I am German after all, I mean come on, maiden name Ostendorf, totally German. In case any of you were wondering, in German the name means small town. Wow, and I live in a big city but love small towns, is this a sign? But I am most excited about one of the side, twice baked potatoes. The potatoes were my hubby's idea, I wanted to just do baked potato, he requested they be twice baked. Have I mentioned I love my hubby and the fact that he loves to eat as much as I do?????? We are a match made in heaven. All goes to show, that food really is a universal language.

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