I missed out on the Sunday cooking-fest this week, which means I’m also missing out on leftovers for dinner every night. Instead, I’m having quesadillas. Quesadillas are my favorite quick meal, because they are as easy and cheap as leftovers!
When I was a kid, I was a ridiculously picky eater. Truth time…not much has changed. I am deathly afraid of flavor. I like my food bland with just a hint of butter and salt. So far, the food we have made for this blog hasn’t really challenged my taste buds all that much. Plus, as a bonus, they always seem to feature my two favorite food groups: meat and potatoes. This week is no different – except, I think this weeks meal adds a little FLAVOR! I could be wrong, but one reason a large percentage of people don’t particularly like sauerkraut (Kelly) is because they can’t stand the very prominent flavor of “finely shredded cabbage that has been fermented by various lactic acid bacteria”…aka, yum (thanks Wikipedia!). As surprising as it sounds, this has always been one of my favorite meals!
Something I didn’t know as a kid, and was pleasantly surprised to discover as an adult – sauerkraut is amazingly easy to make!
I feel like there should be a German Flag on the cover of that crock pot
I am missing the Sunday cooking extravaganza this week because I went to North Carolina for the weekend to visit my boyfriend. I still wanted to cook something and blog about it, so yesterday I had a fantastic idea to make Bavarian pretzel rolls. I found a great recipe, bought the ingredients, took my dog to the groomer, tried to buy an iphone, fought with the fraud alert lady for a few hours…. By the time I got home, it was too late for pretzel rolls! Luckily, Ted had bought bratwursts to go with the pretzel rolls, and we had time to cook those. He cooked away while I photographed his every move to blog about it!
It’s kind of cheating, because I didn’t actually cook anything. I was instrumental in pouring the wine and setting the table, however. And whether I cooked them or not, beer brats are delicious and you deserve to know how to make them!
The plate looks sad and empty because it is missing a pretzel roll.
Note: This post is part of our new feature: Fake Celebrity Gossip of the Week.
Ouch!
Yesterday, Jennifer Aniston underwent an emergency arm amputation. Sources close to the star report that the amputation was the result of an exotic fungus she picked up while trying to kidnap Maddox Jolie, the stepchild of her ex-husband Brad Pitt. Maddox apparently picked up the fungus on a trip to Milwaukee. He is being treated and currently expected to make a full recovery.
Jill and I checked our blog views this morning and went into state of dire panic and possible mental breakdown. Two Girls, Ten Potatoes had exactly ZERO views! Distraught and disillusioned, we began coming up with schemes/desperate ploys for attention that would garner more blog views. Ideas included taking out a giant billboard on the moon (too expensive), taking out a medium-sized billboard on the beltway (too expensive), printing and handing out color fliers (too expensive), printing and handing out black and white fliers (still to expensive)… Basically, we realized we were too poor for any type of publicity. Instead, we needed to post juicier content. Because really, who wants to read about left over beef stew when you read about Paris Hilton’s new boyfriend, Miley Cyrus’s latest debacle, or Brad Pitt’s cat?
Raise your hand if you remember the Hot Pockets jingle from the mid 90’s… I really hope everyone reading this literally just raised their hand into the air – that is how amazing the Hot Pockets jingle is. In case you are having a hard time remembering, or you just want a reminder as to the awesomeness of the pocket, check out this wonderful commercial.
If I had the ability to predict the future, I would say that some Sunday meal this coming spring will be a homemade Hot Pocket extravaganza. However, I cannot predict the future, so I will not say that. What I can say is that Hot Pockets are amazing, especially when they are homemade.
Now, you may be thinking to yourself, “why do I care about your love (obsession) with Hot Pockets–this post is supposed to be about leftover beef stew!” Well, dear reader, Kelly and I outdid ourselves with the creative leftovers post this week. We turned our beef stew into the filling of a homemade Hot Pocket. It was our lazy version of an attempt to make a beef pot pie!
This week’s meal was beef stew: the perfect winter meal. It went really well, except for one horrendous mistake: we didn’t start cooking until 3:30 pm. This would be an appropriate time of day to start cooking any other meal, but beef stew takes about a hundred million years to cook.
This weekend, Jill and I cooked our first Sunday feast: krubs. Last night, it was time for leftovers!
Krubs (potato and pork dumplings) are a staple food group for my family. About once a year, we all head to the “farm” for family bonding, shouting over the tv, and Krubs. This winter I went home for the first time since moving to DC. One of the highlights of my trip was learning (for the 3rd time) how to make Krubs. My grandma and I processed about 107 potatoes, cooked about 30 pounds of pork and fed an entire village for a week. Ok, not quite, but after the 3 hours it takes to actually prepare Krubs, it felt that impressive.
Kelly and I decided to start our cooking adventures with this yummy (if simple tasting) potato dish because it also makes great leftovers.
Read on to see how it went!
Two Girls, Ten Potatoes 