Posts Tagged ‘Leek’

Layered Salad

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

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Makes 8 to 12 servings of layered salad.

Ingredients for layered salad:
 

1 iceberg lettuce
100 g cooked ham
255 g kidney beans, canned
175 g tangerines, canned

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150-200 g gouda cheese
500 ml salad cream, low fat 4,8%
340 g pineapple, canned
285 g canned corn
50 g nachos
200 g leek

Yesterday we had about 20° to 25°C
(77° F) and a clear blue sky.
The ideal conditions to have a BBQ with friends.
In a lot of german households there ecxist special reicpes that are preferentially only prepared for BBQs or birthday parties.

 Layered salad

How do you celebrate a BBQ with your friends or your family?
Do you start with an appetizer or light salad?

We would appreciate if  you would post your favourite BBQ habits as a comment.

Fact of the Week about Germany:  

Ice Saints in Germany:
A popular belief in Germany that goes back to medieval times is that you can be more or less certain that after the days of the Ice Saints there will be no more frosty weather. So you can start to seed not frost-resistant plants.

May 11th : Day of  Mamertus
May 12th : Day of  Pankratius
May 13th : Day of  Servatius
May 14th : Day of  Bonifatius
May 15th : Day of  Sophie

Preparation of layered salad:

     

  1. Wash the lettuce. Cut lettuce, cooked ham, pineapple, and gouda cheese in pieces of about 2cm² (2cm³) the leek in little rings.

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Koenigsberg meatballs

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

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Meatballs for 2-3 servings

greens: 1 carrot, celery root, leekMeatballs Koenigsberger
500 g beef ground chuck
salt and pepper
4 tbsp. flour
4 tbsp. butter
30 g capers
juice of a half lemon


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Preparation of Koenigsberger meatballs:

1. Wash the greens, cut them into dices and fill them in a pot with about 1 liter water. Flavour the beef ground chuck with salt and pepper and form balls in tennis ball size.
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Chicken Fricassee

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

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Ingredients for 3 servings of german chicken fricassee:

1-1,5 kg casserole fowlChicken Fricassee
greens: 1 carrot, celery root, leek
enough water
100 g raisins
3 Tbsp. flour
100 g fine sliced almonds
juice of 1 lemon
salt

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Preparation of chicken fricassee:

1. Put the fowl in a pot together with the sliced greens fill it with water until the fowl is covered and boil it for 30 minutes.
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