{"id":15370,"date":"2018-01-17T06:16:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T06:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=15370"},"modified":"2018-01-17T06:16:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T06:16:47","slug":"kassler-sauerkraut-saltzkartoffeln-roggen-brotkrumen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=15370","title":{"rendered":"Kassler, Sauerkraut; Saltzkartoffeln, Roggen Brotkrumen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last night, just after we had finished eating, and before writing this post, I followed up on a tweet and reply<\/a>\u00a0I had published earlier in the evening that had indicated, with no embellishments, what one of the major parts of this meal would be (I even included an image of the sauerkraut while it was cooking). That second tweet read,<\/p>\n

not saying it just because there\u2019s been a certain buildup to this meal, and some of us know not every meal coming out of this kitchen is even very good, but tonight\u2019s (sauerkraut, smoked pork chops, Saltzkartoffeln with toasted rye bread crumbs, was sublime<\/em><\/p>\n

The dinner\u00a0really was very, very good, although I can’t\u00a0explain why. In fact, just before I had begun to put it together I had thought about aborting it and coming back to\u00a0it on another day: I had learned I didn’t have a couple of the ingredients for the particular sauerkraut I had hoped to serve with the Rauchbier<\/em> I planned to serve with the meal. Instead I shifted gears and\u00a0turned to another recipe, but keeping the Rauchbier<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I would say that nothing was really new in any of the 3\u00a0parts of the entr\u00e9e, either the ingredients or the techniques used, except for caraway bread crumbs\u00a0as the topping for the potatoes. I did accidentally reverse the order of the covered\/uncovered sequence in the early\u00a0cooking\u00a0of the sauerkraut, but I had expected starting off uncovered would have had a negative effect on the texture, if not the flavor; it might actually have been a boon.<\/p>\n

In any event, this meal made me very happy, also because I brought it in under our new mutually-agreed\u00a0dinner deadline, making us both very happy.<\/p>\n