German Schweinebraten

Have you eaten one of the famous German food. This is the Schweinebraten. It is a baked pork with spices like cumin, coriander, marjoram and garlic. Some also used other spices according to their taste and style. I learned better cooking this German food from a friend who owned a Gasthaus or restaurant. You can also buy ready made Scheinebraten powder for tasting. In German, it is usually eaten with potato dumplings and Sauerkraut. Here is yummy a Schweinebraten we prepared last weekend. I guess we forget the word diet when we eat this.

Nutritional Value of Mango Fruit

Mr. and Mrs. Authors of this site love to eat mango fruit. In fact we are preparing mango salad with mozzarella in our kitchen. I am looking for that salad photo in our fine but instead I only found a photo or mangoes. Since we are not experts, I tried to search the nutritional value of mango online. Here it is.Try to eat delicious mango when you can.

Mango is rich in a variety of phytochemicals and nutrients that qualify it as a model "superfruit", a term used to highlight potential health value of certain edible fruits. The fruit is high in prebiotic dietary fiber, vitamin C, polyphenols and provitamin A carotenoids.

Mango contains essential vitamins and dietary minerals. The antioxidant vitamins A, C and E comprise 25%, 76% and 9% of the Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) in a 165 g serving. Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine, 11% DRI), vitamin K (9% DRI), other B vitamins and essential nutrients such as potassium, copper and 17 amino acids are at good levels. Mango peel and pulp contain other phytonutrients, such as the pigment antioxidants - carotenoids and polyphenols - and omega-3 and -6 polyunsaturated fatty acids. more here

Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Anacardiaceae
Genus: Mangifera
Species: M. indica

Pork Meatballs with Tomato Sauce

Mr. Author of this site love this food. Pork meatballs with tomato sauce. I wish to share the recipe next time. For now, just enjoy watching the photos here. have a great day everyone!

Schweinebraten Eaten with Potato Dumplings

Schweinebraten is German delicacy. It is a pork baked in oven with some sauce made of different spices. It is usually eaten with potato dumplings. Here is a photo taken from our kitchen.

What Happened to These Potatoes

We overlooked these potatoes for some weeks. It was stored in a big pot in our kitchen. As I saw them, they are starting to grow already. Look at the roots that are growing bigger. Poor potatoes! We threw it last week to our compost pit near our garden. We had today a great potato salad.

Opo Gourd With Pork

I don't exactly know how to call this recipe. I am just sharing this picture for you to have an idea how an Opo Gourd is being prepared. Below are the ingredients I used last time.

1 lb. pork belly, cut into strips
1 large onion, sliced
4 garlic cloves, minced
1 small ginger around 5 grams cut into small pieces
1 Opo Gourd medium size cut into pieces like you see in the picture
1 tablespoon vinegar
3 tablespoons oil
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 1/2 cups water
Salt & pepper to taste

Heat oil in a large pot and sautee garlic, onions, and ginger until wilted. Add the pork, let cook until the color changes and the edges are slightly browned. Add vinegar and soy sauce and let it boil for some minutes, until it is reduced. Add Opo Gourd. Add the water and simmer until pork and vegetables are tender, about 10 minutes. Add water if needed. Add salt and pepper to taste.

here is you simple menu of Opo Gourd with Pork Belly. below is also a little information about Opo Gourd.
Opo squash is often used in stews and there are several dishes in which this cooking method produces extremely tasty results. While this is not the healthiest method of preparing Opo squash you can still preserve most of its nutrients by keeping stewing time short. A few minutes of cooking will be enough in most cases, depending on the size of the Opo squash and you will get a good balance between a tastier taste and a reasonable level of intact nutrients. Stewed Opo squash is at a middle point, between fried and steamed Opo squash, as far as nutritional values are concerned. The trade off between a full cooked taste and high positive compound levels is quite reasonable, and stewed Opo squash will often be the number one choice for many traditional and modern meals.

Shrimps with Sugar snap peas

I still have to write my own version of this recipe. I love to eat this food. It really taste good. I was trying to find the recipe in the net for you to try. Here is the picture of our own Shrimps with Sugar Snap Peas fresh from our kitchen. The last time I cooked this was in September last year. I wish to try it again to share my own recipe. You can also try the recipe below.
Ingredients:

* 1 pound uncooked large shrimp, peeled, deveined
* 2 tablespoons canola oil
* 3 teaspoons minced peeled fresh ginger
* 2 large garlic cloves, minced
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1/4 teaspoon dried crushed red pepper
* 1 pound sugar snap peas, strings removed
* 1 cup fresh corn kernels (cut from about 2 ears)
* 1/2 cup diced red bell pepper
* 3 green onions, thinly sliced on diagonal
* 2 teaspoons black or white sesame seeds (optional)

Preparation:

Mix shrimp, 1 tablespoon oil, 1 1/2 teaspoons ginger, half of garlic, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and crushed red pepper in medium bowl. Let stand 1 hour.

Heat wok or large nonstick skillet over high heat. Add shrimp mixture; sauté until shrimp are just opaque in center, about 2 minutes. Transfer shrimp to bowl. Add 1 tablespoon oil to wok, then add sugar snap peas, corn, bell pepper, green onions, 1 1/2 teaspoons ginger, and remaining garlic. Stir-fry until vegetables are crisp-tender, about 3 minutes. Return shrimp and any accumulated juices from bowl to wok; stir-fry 1 minute longer. Season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and serve.
recipe by: epicurious

German Leberkaese mit Eier

One of our favourite food, Leberkäse or Leberkaese. This is one of the specialty food in the south of Germany . The Swabian, Franconian and Bavarian people love this food. This is usually made of pork,bacon, corned beef and onions. All these ingredients are finely grind together and bake like a loaf of a bread until it is brown.

When it is sliced, we usually fried it in a pan with little oil and put a fried egg on top as you see in the picture here. Some people eat it with bread, soft pretzels or potato salad..Have a yummy dya again!

you can also half-cooked the egg here. it depends on what you like...don't forget to sprinkle salt and pepper to taste...before I forget Eier means Egg in English.

German Rostbratwurst

There are varieties of German sausages. When you try to search on the net, for sure you will find it. What we love to eat especially for grilling is the bratwurst. German bratwurst has also different kinds. The one that we have in the photo is a Rostbratwurst. It taste good once in while. have a yummy day..sorry the photo is not well taken.

We love to cook and eat chayote. This is kind of vegetable that look like a pear. We love to cook this but sad to say we can't buy it all the time in German grocery stores. We have to buy this especially in Asian shops which is quite far from us. This is good for some food like chicken soup and pancit, a Filipino recipe with some kind of noodles, meat and vegetables. We hope to share a recipe for vegetable next time. As you can see, the ones in the picture don't look fresh anymore.
The chayote (Sechium edule), also known as sayote, tayota, choko, chocho, chow-chow, christophene, mirliton, and vegetable pear, is an edible plant that belongs to the gourd family Cucurbitaceae along with melons, cucumbers and squash.

The plant has large leaves that form a canopy over the fruit. The vine is grown on the ground or more commonly on trellises.

In the most common variety, the fruit is roughly pear or apple shaped, somewhat flattened and with coarse wrinkles, ranging from 10 to 20 cm in length. It has a thin green skin fused with the white flesh, and a single large flattened pip. The flesh has a fairly bland taste, and a texture described as a cross between a potato and a cucumber. Although generally discarded, the seed has a nutty flavour and may be eaten as part of the fruit.

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Violales
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Genus: Sechium
Species: S. edule
Binomial name
Sechium edule

source: wikipedia