Food's Gone

So Tuesday night, had a couple of friends come and join us for supper, and the roommate, plus the two of us. Sauerbraten is gone, potato dumplings gone, head of cabbage, well half gone. This was a simple meal to make in all regards, just took some cooking time and planning. Kinda nice, was looking at a couple of menu's for German restaurants in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, both serve the same items I made.

The beef was great, pretty much just fell apart, after it sat on the stove for 4 hours cooking in the red wine, making the house smell like a drunk. Pulled it out, pulled it apart and covered it in the sauce made with said red wine, little ketchup/katsup/catsup(whatever), raisins, and ginger snap cookies.

The potato dumplings were alright, different than what I have had in the past, but tasty. Two things, now that I own a potato ricer, need to find a couple more things to do with it(fruit, what would go through one of those well?), and two, why I took fresh bread, turn that into a crouton, then stuck that in the middle of the dumpling. When it was done cooking the bread was kinda mushy so I don't think it was for texture. Any ideas.

The cabbage was really good, then again anything cooked with bacon and bacon fat, simmered in wine, can't taste that bad....can it?

I really did enjoy this meal, the company was good as well. Tonight could be interesting....the fiance is going to be cooking as I have a meeting so the menu is....
http://germanfood.about.com/od/meatbasedrecipesandmenu/r/estragongeschn.htm
http://germanfood.about.com/od/middaymealmittagessen/r/cucumbsalad.htm
served with some mashed potatoes.

I give her a hard time about cooking, but she does a great job....so until we try this stuff(stealing a line from a local restaurant ad)... SIT DOWN UND EAT!!!