Saturday, May 9, 2009

Deutches Essen (German Food)

so at first, i thought german food would be really gross, like all gross tasting sausage, or poor quality meat like i always heard england had or something. but german food is AWE'SOME!!! it is soooooo good. they get fresh bread from the backerie, some lady delivers fresh milk, the meat tastes really good, i get to drink beer or wine with everything i eat so that helps, and ... oh man, let me start with breakfast...

Fruhstuck (breakfast):
fresh pastries like specialty schwäbisch pastries, or other german pastries, or french pastries
or brotchen (a roll) with butter and jelly, honey, or nutella
(or cornflakes)
milch or juice

Mittagsessen (lunch):
today we ate at a beer garten on top of a mountain with an old church ruin, and you could see all the land around, it was so beautiful, fields of green and yellow (and they also do hangliding there so...) so i had a bratwurst in bröt (like an american brat bun, but harder) with good moustard, and then pomme fritz (french fries) with mayonaise.
i drank an apple soda because i decided i had had enough beer in the last week
(but then when we were in the town schwäbisch hälle, i had a beer (60 cents) when i was sitting around with the other students by the river in the sun...ahhh)

Abendsessen (dinner):
every night basically my host mother has cooked a really great meal, usually:
a salat with a vinegar sauce
fresh bread
cheese
and something warm, so brats or fish or special local cuisine, it is all delicious!
and sometimes something else like a potato salad or something
thats usually with beer or wine (normally a pils called Heubacher, or yesterday we had this really good local dry light red wine (SO GOOD!!!), and today the grandfather brought me a weiß bier (wheat beer) which is from bavaria

(i dont know the word for dessert, haha)
weve had everything from banana splits to special apple donoughts to tonight we had ice cream and strawberries :P so good...

some of the things are more specialties because im a guest from america, and other things are good because the family im staying with is like super smart, their house is really green (solar pannels, well insulated, the water for the toilet comes from rain!), and they prefer high quality local products, and put an emphasis on food over other things like more toys or something, so its really good. i have a great host family, im really lucky. (i also have a great real family, and am really lucky to have them, more than lucky, im somehow or for somereason unordinarilly blessed with a great family praise God!)

oh, and today i went to a cheese market where i thought the cheese would be horrible cause it smelled so bad, but the cheese was actually delicious! i really need words better than delicious and good to explain the food, but thats what it was.

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