This week’s show is here. We survived a late winter Gale, the new baby chicks have arrived and it is really feeling like spring. This week we’re cooking with Sauerkraut and making a Choucroute Garni.
Music–Intro & Outro:
El Rusko Torero by Drallibotrop
Photos: Flickr Set
The Great Lakes Kraut Company
The world’s largest producer of Sauerkraut
Choucroute Garni
Serves 6
- 4 slices smoked bacon, diced
- 2 medium onions, chopped
- 4 carrots, peeled and diced
- 3 pounds Sauerkraut, drained
- 2 cups dry white wine
- 12 black peppercorns, whole
- 10 juniper berries
- 1 bay leaf
- 12 fluid ounces Chicken Stock
- 6 smoked Pork Chops or 1.5 pounds Kassler
- 6 knockwurst
- 6 bockwurst
- 5 ounces Cocktail Sausages
- 6 ounces Canadian Bacon
- 6 Frankfurters
Saut?© the bacon in a large pan until lightly browned. Add the onions and saut?© until transluscent. Add the diced carrot, and the well drained sauerkraut‚Äîif you wish it to be less salty, rinse it. Add the wine, peppercorns, juniper berries and bay leaf (if you wish you may tie these in a piece of cheesecloth) and the chicken stock. Bring to a boil. Cover and cook for 1 ¬? hours either on low on the stove or in a 350 degree oven. Add the meats and cook for 30 minutes more, or until the meats are done. Season to taste and mound the sauerkraut on a platter surrounded by the meats. Serve with you favorite mustard and boiled potatoes.
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Now THAT looks really good!
A true carnivores delight.
i rather have sausage and beans out of a tin.
It looks horid.
Don’t cut cha self on the rusty tin opener.
i didn’t know sauerkrat is so healthy for us… you said it has lactaid acid which helps with indigestion. i don’t believe i have indigestion, but i am lactose-intolerant… i’m not sure how that would help me, but from listening to your podcast, it’s nice to know that this stuff i eat with my dogs are quite nutritious!
I knew it was good stuff before I began thinking about doing a show on it, but I didn’t know how good it was, either.
2/21/2006 2:51 AM
Neil,
I just listened to #45 and I wanted to comment on the sponsorship issue. I could not be happier that you were able to find a way to defray the costs of doing the Podcast. I think that you did a good job representing the Kraut Company. I would encourage you to try and find such sponsors in the future. Do not let the sell out naysayers keep you from succeeding with this project.
Did you ever get the Digital Photo Hacks book I asked Amazon to send you?
Thanks again,
Big Ed
Big Ed,
I did get the book–THANKS! It was a fantastic gift! I mentioned it on one of the shows.
Thanks for your support in iTunes, as well and for your thoughts here. If I can find more pertinent sponsors then I will work them into the show like I did Great Lakes Kraut–as long as I believe in what they sell and would use it myself and can work it into a show in a non-jarring way.
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