What's for Dinner, Fri., July 12, 2019

[NJCher]

Pork chops, which have been in brine for a couple days. The RG cooked them in the cast iron skillet. It will be served with tomato-based sauce.

I made tossed green salad with the lettuce from the farmer's market. It was so good and fresh I'll go get more tomorrow. I put in this really interesting daikon radish that was greenish and almost looked like a sliced kiwi. Since the salad leaves were purple, it made for an interesting lime green & deep purple contrast.

Caprese salad, only served as a roll-up. The mozzarella was the "wrap" and the tomatoes were chopped inside. Topped with basil.

Corn cut off the cob.

Sauteed yellow and green zucchini and onion.

Radish salad, which is sliced radishes with sesame oil and scallion.

Cheese balls, which is prepared item the RG gets from the Portuguese grocery store.

Dessert is lemon bar gelato, that new flavor which is low in sugar.

[geardaddy]

1. We're waiting for our zucchini to produce.

You're making me hungry.

[irisblue]

2. Egg drop soup

With vegetable filled dumplings, rice. Cold decafe tea

[Kali]

3. basic Romaine salad with ham chunks

homemade ranch dressing

[Cairycat]

4. Chicken souvlaki pita but last Friday in Berlin

our big meal of the day was a late lunch. We had toured a well-preserved Biedermeier era house and went through the Nikolai Kirche, parts of which are over a thousand years old, the oldest standing structure in Berlin. This is a touristy area, so we went with it and had touristy food at a touristy Gasthaus. I had a platter with a pork medallion, a couple of small sausages and a Berliner Boulette, a local specialty, a meatball about the size of a billiards ball but flattened out. My husband had roast pork and potato soup, and our son had calf's liver served with peppers and onions. They had Apfelschorle (spritzer) but I had Berliner Kindl Weisse (wheat beer) mit Schuss - with a shot of sweet woodruff syrup (you can also get it with raspberry syrup). I like sweet woodruff, and the syrup made the beer almost as sweet as pop (soda, to you non-midwesterners).

We had a tough time getting back to the Neukoelln area from there - it used to be in East Berlin, which is mostly served by trams, the tracks for which were undergoing repairs. Eventually we figured out a route with the U-Bahn (subway), but my husband felt too unwell to do anything the rest of the evening. So my son and I walked a few blocks to find a Doener place and got one each. A Doener is a flatbread heated up and stuffed with meat cooked on a vertical spit and lettuce and tomato, onions, lightly marinated red cabbage, and various sauces - we got tzatziki. If you want to be filled up cheaply, in Berlin your best bet is to get this local original - they can be gotten for under 4 Euros, almost always less than 8.

[spinbaby]

5. Potato pancakes

With applesauce.