Spargel mit Hollandaise Sausse!

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!

A Turning Point

I have four monkeys! Was should that mean?
I have four moneys who are not my pet but rather very independent individuals.
I feel I am very lucky that they have become my friends. Because not everybody can have the rare chance of having monkeys as friends! And these monkeys have understood my interest so well that they have picked up this for me:

, as they wished me 'Guten Appetit!' on my birthday. Hillarious!
Love you, monkeys! Mmmuuuaaahhh!!
This book has a rich collection of recipes from all over Germany! But it is not just a long list of recipes like a coomon conventional cook book but gives me a good introduction to German food culture and food tradition!
And a new phase of learning begins for me!

Our Grand Breakfast

What more could I ask for?
Here my day starts with fish.
We usually have salmon , prawn and the other one, I am yet to ask them its name, as you see below:


Then we have different varieties of Salami:


And we have wonderfull breads:

Here also, I lack knowledge required to introduce each one to you but I will learn soon.

Then we have fruits:


And cheese:

mmmm.... yummy!

There are endless varieties of flavoured youghurt. Strawberry is my favourite.
And then fruit juices, milk and cornflakes.


One can choose from scrambled- or boiled eggs. Last but not the least, there are sausages, too. A great start for the day! What say?

On Königstraße, Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof

I never thought I would find something like this on Königstraße.
This looks so so so spicy.

No I have not yet tasted it. It looks too spicy even for the feast for my eyes.
It is cheese-pepper salat with onion rings. really eye catching with yellow and red peppers.

And look at this.

Doesn't this look like paneer curry. It is sheep milk cheese. Paneer is cottage cheese. Only after tasting it I can tell you, if it is paneer from sheep milk or not. It's a Corsican dish cooked in olive oil, with garlic and some selected herbs. Looks yummy and good for vegetarians!

And this is Peperoni from southern France:


There were innumerable examples like these on Königstraße posing as an unbearable contrast to people begging,though not for mere food, I am sure, and not really comparable to my poor motherland. But still, affluence and wealth at one hand and people asking for money on the other, did create a very disturbing cohabitation for me.
Poverty exists eveywhere, though not always equally acute.



----- A Foodstore on Königstraße

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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