food, glorious food

So you may remember last year when I posted about the delicious authentic german food that I found at germandeli.com, right? (and I would link to it, of course, but it's over in my private archives and I don't want to take the time to repost it right now). Well.

We have decided to maybe hopefully start that yummy german dinner as a new annual Christmas family tradition!! This year we made it for Christmas eve - and I decided to show you some pictures of the feast this time (forgive the truly awful photos. Obviously, I have absolutely zero experience in photographing food. But, you get the idea at least.)

So, here we have the spaetzle (noodles) with Gouda cheese and ham:

This year we made pork schnitzel instead of bratwurst. It was so good!!

And the best homemade brotchen (rolls) ever!

Here is the semmel knoedel (bread dumplings)

(perhaps my all-time favorite German dish)

And kartoffelsalat (potato salad)

And Gurkensalat (cucumber salad)

I've decided I like this feast even better than Thanksgiving. And a disclaimer: the only things that I made from scratch were the schnitzel and the brotchen. The rest came from a box or spice mixes that I got from the germandeli.com. But, to me, that is pretty authentic because they are the identical brands that I bought and used during my time in Germany. I practically have to restrain myself from moaning "mmmm . . . yummm . . ." with every bite. :)

So anyway - eventually I will post about Christmas day and backtrack to catch up on the recitals and such that happened before the break. Don't you worry. :)