Food in its natural state. 🤌
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We started on raw milk a while back, utter revelation. Amazing stuff
I sometimes skim the cream off and clot it. 🤤
That’s the best bit when it lands in my coffee
My daughter made butter out of it, once, but the butter we get from the market is better.
We never leave butter in the fridge because I prefer to have our breakfast toast in one piece. There is a particular butter I like from our local supermarket that has sea salt crystals in it, pretty good. But there is one that we get occasionally directly from a farm in wales that is leagues ahead. Spreadable from underneath the butter tray lid. This is what we Boomers live for. I’m probably going to leave now
😂 Buttered toast is one of life's last true pleasures. And coffee with fresh cream...
Crumpets. Butter and marmite. A breakfast to build an empire on.
We had breakfast for dinner, today. Used up the old Balkan bread. Nobody will eat it, now that I've bought fresh.
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I make crumpets in big batches and freeze some, as it takes forever to prepare the dough and bake them all out.
Why is that German food has a pretty meh reputation? Yes, Bavarian food is an exception, but the rest of Germany has this "potatoes and vinegar" vibe.
I have no idea. We always eat really well, in Germany.
But, then, we always eat well in America, too. 🤷♀️
And in Britain! Last time, we were in Scottland and stuffed our faces every day. It was all so delicious.
Last time I was in Hamburg I ate like a king. Delicious fish. Before that I was in Berlin for a conference and the food was awful (not necessarily problem with German food, the whole event was vegan catered). :-)
In the US I always eat pretty horribly but that is because my weak mind needs to try all the fastfood. 🍔🍟🥤🍦
And yeah Scotland. Hmmm... I can eat haggis for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Yes, haggis! And black pudding and crumpets and marmelade with clotted cream. And the roasts. Yummy!
I taught myself to make crumpets, after that, because the kids were like
Mom, when crumpets? 🥺
The best thing in Berlin is the Döner. 🥙
it's a shame you don't have burek there...
burek, pljeskavica, cevapi... there is only one place to find it... there is places in bulgaria that claim to sell these things, but they are so bad i can't believe it
Cevapi... We stole that concept too. It is called Čevabčiči and the local version looks like this.
We love that, yum! I make it myself.
We actually had Burek for dinner on Thursday! 😂 There's this bakery that does Balkan baked goods and we buy it from there. We started buying it during Lent because they have some vegetarian version with feta and spinach.
Their bread is also incredible. They have this sort of wood-oven flatbread and we eat it with stuff from our favorite Turkish delikatessen.
Bavaria has a lot of people from southeastern Europe because of the wars.
yeah, the Sorbs and their seed truly are a prodigious high quality cohort
and they all love germany, thus the gastarbeiter meme, and how many germanic words they use
all i can say is that their language is prettier and more elegiant, similar, grammatically but a much easier thing to wrap your tongue around
honestly, when i think of which ethnic group i want my near future wife to be
yugoslavian. end of.
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If you took the Slavs out of Germany, the eastern half would be empty of people. Including me! 😂
My mom's family is Bohemian. From Egerland. They were driven out, after the war, but they're actually more Czech than German, according to her DNA test.
yes, eastern germany is really western yugoslavia
Our village, too. So many of the wives are Slavic. Amazing.
you can find crap food in every country
you can find mostly good food in yugoslavia, you have to go there to see it... belgrade, novi sad, banja luka, sarajevo... maybe sarajevo is the crappiest, but also the most muslim
oh yeah... uzice... home of the most amazing egg and bread breakfast dish ever invented, the Komplet Lepinja
i was super disappointed i didn't get to actually eat one! the fools! but i was fed one by a boy from that town a couple years before i went there and it was so energising ...
I have a thing for shakshuka
i'm not familiar with that... looks like some kind of egg borscht
It's paprika and tomatoes, instead of beets. And a bit spicy.
i wasn't aware that borscht was beets... never been that interested tbh, but i ate a lot of tomato based soups in serbia
tomatoes are new to europeans, only after tehy came back from south america
every so often i see ladies around madeira who look classically yugoslavian... even the golden curls and the pudgy noses and the sound of portuguese is so similar to yugoslavian, it's almost like the vulgar latin skipped spain but spread west and east... the sound is so delightful
My very first job in Germany was at a Turkish delikatessen, so I actually know how to make all the pastes and salads, and things. But I usually just buy it because then I get 10 different things, instead of one or 2.
yeah, the turks do it pretty good too...
bulgarians are terrible at it though, in the big cities
but out in the villages the bulgarians make good food, it just isn't the same standart overall as serb/croat/bosnian/montenegrin... and true to the language, the macedonians are a bit meh also at this stuff... both of them caved in to the pig-chicken centric garbage of EU the moment they were asked
Yeah, that is a true testament to the quality of the local cuisine. Go get a Turkish dish instead... :-) And to top up my anecdotal evidence: during my visit I went to the TV Turm on Alex, beautiful view, super interesting Woodruff beer. I remember all of that, but I don't recall what I had for lunch there... And that was for sure the best meal I had in Berlin. BTW: I remember what I ate in the train home later that day, but not that lunch.
German Döner are their own thing, now.
i heard from turks back in the day that turks were becoming a major ethnic group in germany
the good news is they won't be happy with the other imports as much
Yeah, lots of Turks, although Germany really is mostly a big melting pot, so you can't really tell who they are unless they are big on the affectations, like wearing foreign-looking clothes or whatnot.
I used to work on a software project based in Hamburg. I was there for weeks at a time and just ate my way from one end of the city to the other. 😂 So much good good!!
There's this Italian restaurant off the Reeperbahn, near the stadium, that is even better than what we usually get in Italy.