Hope that you have had a wonderful week! At the hotel we celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving on Oct. 12, and I volunteered to do the roasted pumpkin soup in a shell that I had a recipe for a few newsletters ago for an Oktoberfest suggestion. This way I could take pictures and show you. I learned how to make this soup in Australia where pumpkin is a staple to many much like potatoes are in Germany, and served daily.
Sylvia Norris sent a nice braised roast dish for these cold fall evenings, that uses a good flavored beer to flavor it. Many of us cooks are accustomed to using wine but don't think that beer can also give so many dishes that kick that it needs.
Barb Rokitka sent a nice sauerkrautstrudel recipe and Karin a recipe for Knee patches.
Gert sent perhaps one of my favorite German-English fusion songs I have ever heard. I feature all of her favorites in our music section.
Also my favorite cake growing up but found out it was not German like it claimed to be! German Chocolate Cake and Jana requested it so I decided to adopt it as German.
Oktoberfest Hit 2009 "I am from Bavaria" (official version)
We did this soup last week at the hotel and it was fun! You know the feeling when a Novel recipe like this comes together and everyone loves it!
I love the creamy smoothness of this soup and the way the pumpkin and potatoes work together to make this magnificent flavor.
Have you wondered about using beer in cooking? This roast dish is a good example of how to use beer in cooking Sylvia Norris sent this to me.
It is called Rump roast which is OFF the rump, so any sirloin tip or round roast would work. Any roast would work, but the rump, or eye of the round is great because there is not so much gristle or bone.
So do double duty with one of these recipes here, and have Sauerkraut and Ribs or Emma's Sauerkraut and have a great dinner and then use the leftovers for this sauerkraut strudel.
While this is not a German dish it is very popular. There is nothing at all German about it except the name , which came from a lady in Texas that used a baking chocolate named after an Englishman, Sam German, called German's Sweet Chocolate Bar.
She used it in a cake that she entered in a local contest and probably for lack of any name for it called it German Chocolate Cake.
Even though this is not remotely a German recipe I get asked about it frequently and since it is one of my most favorite cakes ever I was going to include this in the newsletter.
I use to make the original recipe for a family that loved it including making miniature 2 layer bite sized round German chocolate cakes.
This what I would call a folk recipe comes from Germany courtesy of Karin Warman. I first heard about it when someone requested a recipe for "Knee Patches". Remember when we use to patch knees on jeans? These looked as if they were formed around someone's knee. This is much like what we would call elephant ears at a carnival in the U.S.
I order from the German Deli more frequently than ever.
I try to get in bulk to make the shipping dollars count.
Also there are sales all the time I like to take advantage of.
They are nice folks. If you don't believe me call them.
and tell them Stephen Block sent you from the German Goodies Newsletter.
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Kitchen Tool Review
The Wooden Spoon
One of my favorite and most used kitchen tools.
I love the feel and sturdiness of a wooden spoon. I can use it in any
non-stick pan, The flat bottom is nice so you can scrape the bottom
to loosen food as it is cooking.
I don't mind paying for a good wooden spoon. I paid 12 dollars for mine
It seems like a lot for a spoon but I use it every day and I love it!
