Subj : Weisswurst To : ALL From : JIM WELLER Date : Sat Aug 20 2022 20:27:00 It was the best of times and the wurst of times... The best part: Raine, Lexi and Charlee are visiting from Fort McMurray and they picked up Neekha and young Azlind along the way. He is 16 months old now and already in his Terrible Twos. It's a working vacation for Raine as she is rebuilding and painting both our decks and doing other maintenance. We're paying her journey wages and not expecting a family discount. (She cancelled jobs in Fort Mac to come here when Yellowknife is short of trades people and I was having a hard time lining up a contractor and she needs to pay off a new truck.) The girls have been offered gardening and landscaping jobs too if they want them but I am unsure how much time they want to put into that as their social life is tempting them away. The wurst part: Loblaws had a sale on PC Weisswurst so we bought 2 double "club" packs. Real Bavarian Weisswurst is made from veal and a little pork back bacon and spiced with parsley, lemon, mace, onion, ginger and cardamom. This Canadian version is made with pork and chicken and very mildly seasoned. The label is vague as to what spices are actually in it. I thought I tasted white pepper and maybe a little nutmeg. Still, they were tasty. I boiled them 5 minutes, then fried them in butter for 5 more shaking the pan to make them roll around until just starting to brown a bit then served them in homemade buns with sauerkraut, diced onions and spicy whole grain mustard. Some of the younger people elected to go with cole slaw and sweet honey mustard instead. We didn't have any cabbage or carrots in the house so I grated a kohlrabi and a turnip and worked with that. It was well received. Cheers Jim .... Canned Vienna sausages taste like hot dogs, only nastier. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 * Origin: Fidonet Since 1991 www.doccyber.org bbs.docsplace.org (1:135/392) .