Spargel mit Hollandaise Sausse!

Gerlingen Street Festival

Gerlingen is a beautiful village about 15 kilometers away from Stuttgart. This weekend Gerlingen celebrated its 32nd street festival. One of my seniors grew up there. They were to sell mainly east Asian food that they made at home (spring roll, for example)in this fest. The fest took place from Saturday 15:00 till midnight and again the next Sunday till 18:00. (I do not know when exactly it started on Sunday but I am sure much before my day began. I woke up at 11:30.)The spring rolls I had for my brunch. On Saturday I took the U-Bahn from Stuttgart after our hat party and reached Gerlingen at about 22:30 because I wanted to see the fest at night too. I had chicken nuggest as dinner. This was more like a family fest. Local people participated through sports clubs or similar local organisations. Most of the things were home made. People knew each other and said hallo to each other. I was probably the only person who looked like a real tourist. Spring roll and chicken nuggets were not new for me since those are quite popular in Kolkata, too. So, I did not take photos of them even though I enjoyed them. They were sold at a real low price.

But these turkish sweets were new for me. I tasted only a few of them.








There wete sausages, beer, potato salad, pommes frittes, as usual. There were different types of wines, old and new, from Baden-Wuerttemberg. There were Hungarian delicacies. I had my first gulash here.

Aubergine mit Hackfleisch und Kaese

Germany is world famous for its automobile industry. We associate tennis, music, many inventions and even Indology with Germany. Germany means Steffi Graf, Albert Einstein, Max Mueller, Grimm Brothers! But not many of us know that Germany has a very diverse and delightful food culture. Just like us, Germany not only has innummerable tasty recipes of her own but also open to taste and assimmilate food from any other region of the world. In the small local foodstand that is open only in the morning as a part of the local meatshop in my tiny village, I have tasted my tastiest Lasagna, freshly prepared in their kitchen early in the morning, like all their other dishes.
Today I picked minced meat Lasagne for breakfast and something new for lunch: Aubergine mit Hackfleisch und Kaese.

The half of a big aubergine with mixed minced meat and cheese melted in mouth. With leftover of last night's spinach, steak and cheese salad, it was a grand lunch in the late afternoon today. :)

Eating White Sausage Like a Bavarian!

White sausage with sweet mustard! Out of this world!
I can suck the meat out from inside the skin. And why just before noon, I can eat them round the clock. In fact they made my dinner today!

Kartoffeln mit Speck!

Finally I had it! And I loved it!

---- Kartoffeln mit Speck und Knoblauchsauce

Karttofel means 'potato'. Germans, like us, love potato and have many mouthwatering but simple recipes with it as the main ingredient. See, they have built a whole potato cottage and a cute little potato-darling is inviting you in.



Inside there were many other options but I went for Kartoffel mit Speck because I always wanted to taste it. Most of my friends love it. But doesn't it look exactly like our beloved 'alur dom'? (Alu= potato; 'alur dom' is a very popular Bengali dish. )

Building Kebap Connection

---- The Very Popular Döner: One of the Celebrities Among Snacks

Even before I have realised, I became a frequent visitor to Germany's possibly the most popular turkish food chain. One possible reason is that it reminds me of shawarma I used to have from Kerala food joints on Bangalore streets.
Usually I have a small portion like a Döner-viertel (quarter) or a halb (half) there but today I had a dinner.
Just have a look:


This looked like chicken and vegetable stew to me but my companion cried, "Looks exactly like Saambar!" No comments!
And these were complementary with this:



Quite a lot for one tiny stomach like mine! Right?

Maultaschensuppe -- Swabian Pockets!

I tried this today. This was my dinner.
Maultaschen means 'pasta pockets'. In the dictionary you may find the English name as 'Pasta Squares'. These are actually pasta pockets filled with minced meat.
This is a Swabian preparation.

Gaisburger Marsch

Bandnudeln in Schinken-Sahnesauce! That was my first dinner in Germany. And I fell in love with German food. Love at first taste? Yeahhh!

Mostly I eat Gaisburger Marsch at dinner.


This is a soup with potato and softcooked beef and these noodles. This is really light and gives me energy and refreshes me at the end of the day.

And yesterday at lunch I had Lachsfilet mit Kartoffeln: salmon fish fillet with potato.

Putencurry mit Reis

As far as food is concerned, I am having a blast here.
At breakfast I usually have fish. Incredible! Also I can have boiled- and/or scrambled egg, salami, sausages. There is a wonderful variety of breads always. And cheese, of course!
At lunch we have innumerable variety at much cheaper rate. I can have salads, beef, duck, fish etc. There are desserts, different types of rice.



This is Putencurry mit Reis, one of my favourites among dinner-dishes.
It is turkey. The taste is subtle, not spicy at all. I felt it was cooked with butter.

After a long time my taste buds are having solace.
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