Morning Blahs

 

1. that IS a scary thought, “currywurst”.

   Posted by kjmerz       05/11/2012  at  09:19 AM  



2. Never got into it - but they sell a curry ketchup - even our local Jungle Jim has it in the German section.

   But the schnell imbiss always make my mouth water - brotchen and sausage but watch what mustard you pick - the scharf one can make your guts ruin the rest of your day!

   Posted by wardmama4       05/11/2012  at  11:13 AM  



3. wardmama4, do you by any chance live in the Cincinnati area?  and yeah, schnell imbiss in Munich is my idea of halfway to Heaven…

   Posted by kjmerz       05/11/2012  at  11:21 AM  



4. Ah, two currywurst experts, good. How zingy should the sauce be? I generally like scharf, the scharfer the better, but I’d want to make it “normal” the first time.

   Posted by Drew458       05/11/2012  at  12:23 PM  



5. well Drew, unless I’m much mistaken, YOU are the one who makes his Thai curries from scratch… when I was a Young Turk, I’d scorch & pound out my Thai curry paste in a mortar & pestle, took half a day, but I’m too old & lazy to do that anymore; PLUS, the quality of the imported canned stuff IS getting better, kind of.  as for ME, as long as it’s not taking the enamel off my teeth, the scharfer, the better.  the week I spent in Bangkok in 1986, is the ONLY time I didn’t have to explain to the waiter, “I mean REALLY SPICY!” But I’m sticking with my story—not sure that ‘curry’ & ‘wurst’ belong together in the same word…

   Posted by kjmerz       05/11/2012  at  12:38 PM  



6. Yes, kjmerz I do live in Cincinnati. And two times in Germany (Bad Kissingen and Bindlach) - border units - such fun.

   I can’t handle spicy, never could and still can’t - so don’t ask me. When we ‘do’ German here we tend to stick to schnitzel - as sausage has become a no-no as I get older. And we make our own - finally found a recipe that tastes like ‘Moms’ - a local gasthaus to which my hubby sets his standard of what is German eating.

   Posted by wardmama4       05/12/2012  at  06:18 AM  



7. Lucky guess huh?  I LOVE Jungle Jim’s though I live in CT.  My wife & I both come from long lines of Krauts, on both sides, and we have a few old family recipes.  One side of my family did about a 100-year tour of duty in Cincinnati, though the only known relatives I have there today are planted in the Vine Hill Street Cemetery there.  However, my recipe for Sauerbraten, which (naturally) is the best I’ve ever eaten, comes from Jacob Wirth & Co, a German restaurant in Boston which was already a century old when I lived around the corner from it in 1976, and is still in business.  And my Rotkraut recipe is from Luchow’s, the famous old German place on East 14th Street in NYC, where my wife’s great-grandfather lunched every business day (back in the 1910’s, lunch there was FREE, the beers were a nickel).  But if you want to try new things, I would recommend to you Mimi Sheraton’s treatise on the subject, which I believe is entitled (humbly) “The German Cookbook”, which I’m sure is available on the online used market for next to nothing…

   Kevin

   p.s. I’ll be briefly passing thru Cincy at the end of June, leading a caravan of relatives to said cemetery, and also past the house on Iroll, where my Dad and most of his siblings, were born.

   Posted by kjmerz       05/12/2012  at  02:22 PM  

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