German Night

Last week we had New Food Night.

I know many of you are wondering why we haven't eaten in so long.  Well, trust me - we ate!  Just not together or as New Food Night.  It was a busy busy month in October. Several things going on - I had surgery, my mother-in-law was in the hospital - trips. But we got together last week and cooked up a storm.

We had decided that our theme would be German food.  So here you have it.

Gary made Rouladin. How good does this look?

It called for it to be made with round steak but he used cube steak instead. Don't you just love creamy sauces?  I do.

Miss Annette made some spaetzle and gravy.

Spaetlze is like fried noodles - kinda. The gravy was an onion gravy she made. It was really good.  Typically, spaetzle is served with whatever sauce comes with the meat dish. She did not know if Gary's meat dish would have a gravy or not so she made one. Nothing wrong with two types of gravy.

She also made some red cabbage.

I'm not a big cabbage person unless it's in coleslaw that is made the  RIGHT way - none of that vinegar stuff for me.  I want the mayo creamy saucy coleslaw.

K.C. made a Bacon Onion Pie.

This is kind of like a quiche but it doesn't have as many eggs.  I loved it. K.C. was not a big fan.

I made potato pancakes.

Now I make potato pancakes frequently but usually out of left-over mashed potatoes This was made with shredded potatoes not cooked.  They were good but I prefer my mashed tater ones better.  Have to thank Gary for shredding those potatoes for me - I was still recovering from surgery and not sure my shoulder could have handled it.

Here's what my full plate looked like.

Not bad.  I cleaned it up too. It was very filling.

Now as I was getting ready to make my potato pancakes I realized that we didn't have a dessert. I knew this for a fact because I had already checked with everyone to see what they were making.  I remembered one other time we didn't have a dessert at New Food Night and could not let that happen again. So, I Googled easy German dessert.  This is what I came up with.

German Honey Cookies.

These were very good!  You may notice the different color variations on the cookies. That's because I was doing to many things at one time and did not bake each batch the same amount of time. The ones that look really dark aren't burnt nor were they hard. They were still soft. The different baking times gave them each a different flavor - the darker ones the honey flavor was more intense.

There you have it - German food at it's best.  What do you think?  Which dish looks the best or maybe sounds the best to you