Ah, I'm killing myself here!
Wanna know WHY?
Let your eyes flow over this shit my little cherubs!
Can any of the boys and girls guess what this is?
This is a crock boys and girls. Can you say CROCK? Can you say CROCK OF KRAUT? This is the food of the gods, the manna and ambrosia spoken of by the most ancient of Greeks. Ok, maybe not by them, but at least by all the good little German folk.
This is my magic crock with the lid off...see the weights holding the yummy goodness down below the fermenting liquid???
They are saving all the yumminess and keeping it safe. What's that? You wanna see what the yumminess looks like UNDER the weights? Oh, wow, boys and girls, your Krazee aunt doesn't know if she's got a picture of that...let me check...
nope, porn,
more porn,
oh look, chickens...
more porn...
pirate booty?
ah, found it...it was behind the shot of my honey in his brand new polka dot stockings.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, you wanted to see the KRAUT?! lolol My bad. I must have most grievously misunderstood. Let me find THAT shot...
And for all you kraut lovers...I used this wonderful woman's recipe. I made one minor adjustment. I was afraid of the amount of onions she looked like she was going to use so I used one onion and one tablespoon each of kosher salt and caraway seeds per head of cabbages. Using the wonderful crock I bought, I didn't have to worry about skimming the top of mold or throwing away the top 1-2 inches of kraut. It was ALL YUMMY GOODNESS!
And, just as an aside...what did we have WITH that homemade kraut you might ask. Well, I'll TELL YA!
We had the ULTIMATE Michigan dinner: Kowalski's kielbasa and some of that wonderful elixir that no one outside of our little cold corner of the globe has ever heard of. POSERS!
And what was for dessert, you ask?
Yeah, yeah, I know, mutant brownie snakes, you had those YESTERDAY!
Y'all are just jealous bitches, the lot of ya!
Hey honey...where'd that corner go? Darnit! That was the best part! He ate MY brownie! MOTHER! He ate it and didn't share!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ahem...shut up.
When you said "crock" I thought we were talking about the $1,800+ for the test again. But no, it turns out to be the KRAUT! It was awesome, delicious, yummy! You should be proud of it! And next time I say the whole process of making it is silly (which it is), smack me! 8-)
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Yum. So, how does it compare with my father's? In the fermenting stage, he was taught by some very old guys just to use salt and water. My mom would put the caraway in after the fermenting, when she cooked it. Daniel says hello and insissstes on typing this.
ReplyDeletea crock of kraut.......is that like a barrel of germans? anywho.....the stuff sounds amazing, but the one time I did a pork roast with kraut and BEER in the crock pot.....the entire house smelled like moldy ASS for days!!!!! the boytoy loves it, but I am not a fan of the piggie products (unless it's BACON!!!!!)
ReplyDeleteCan't say which is better, mine or your dad's. The caraway seeds give it such a different flavor and I'm not sure how he makes his. I made mine JUST like it said in the recipe. You'll have to have Uncle Dennis read this and tell me how much better his is! lol
ReplyDeleteAnd you tell Daniel I miss him TONS! Not you or Beth though...bah on both of you! lol
I was one of the recipients of this most lovely meal! It was great! Hope the rest of you get a chance to savor it as well.
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