Rohkostsalat - apple-carrot salad

              Rohkostsalat - apple-carrot salad

This isn't actually a salad. It's more a dessert. It's healthy and yummy but it takes some elbow grease (unless you have a Food processor with grater). You also need to use a whole milk Yogurt here, because your body just absorbs the nutrition in the Carrot with fat. 

This is what you need:

- 3 apples (or more)

- 3 Carrots (or more, equal to the apples)

- a spritz of Lemon juice

- Full milk Yogurt

- Sugar or sugar substitute 

This is how you do it:

Grate the apples and carrots in fine strips through the bigger side of the grater (or use a food processor with grater)

Add 1 TBSP or 2 (depending how much you use) just so the apples don't turn brown. Now add Yogurt so its a smooth consistancy. Shouldn't be to much but just enough to combine everything. Add sugar until you like the taste. Thats it. Cool and enjoy it. 

Schupfnudeln or Finger noodle

                           Schupfnudeln or Finger noodle

Schupfnudeln are basically the german version of Gnocchi. They are also know with the name Fingernudel (Finger noodle). The word "schupfen" comes from the way how they are formed, by hand. That technic was called '"schupfen". They are thick in the middle and pointy to the ends. Like Gnocchi, they are cooked but then they also are getting pan fried in butter to get them a crispy edge. You can eat them as a side dish, or make them in a meal with ground meat and sauerkraut and lots of Paprika powder and caraway seeds. In some areas that dish is called Schupfnudeln as well. I remember eating this a lot on medieval meetings. Along with "gschlamberts Kraut" but that is a different story. 

This is what you need: 

- 500 gr Potatoes (e.g. for mashing)

- 50 gr Butter

- 1 Egg yolk

- 100 - 150 gr Flour

- salt 

This is how you do it:

First cook the Potatoes and press them through a potato press (like for mashed potatoes). Let them cool a bit. Now add the butter, flour, salt and Egg yolk and work it until its a smooth dough. 

Use some flour on the work space and roll the dough in thumb thick rolls. Cut them at around 2 inches. Form them into the typical form but keep them around thumb thick. 

Now cook them in slightly boiling saltwater until they swim on the surface (around 5 min or less). Take them out and put them in a Colander. Then you can pan fry them until they are brown and crisp or keep them in the fridge until you need them. 

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Haschee

                               Haschee

This is a fast dish, comfort food, hospital food and I don't know what. My daughter is keep asking for it and since I started this food blog for her, so she can look up all the recipes, I have to add it here. I cook a lot and my daughter keeps saying that my food is better then all the restaurants we go to and I should open my own restaurant, but its also mostly ethnic food, family recipes and authentic food from back home and our surrounding Countries. She enjoys it thoroughly. And I just figured that most of the recipes are made actually pretty fast. It doesn't take a lot of ingredients, but the right ones. 

This is what you need:

- 1 lbs of ground meat (whatever you want to use)

- 1 small onion, diced

- 1-2 gloves of garlic, finley chopped

- 250 ml Water (1 cup)

- 2 TBSP Brown Gravy or Sosse zum Braten

- 1 TBSP sour cream

- Salt, Pepper and Paprika powder

- shredded carrots, optional

This is how you do it:

In a big pot, saute the onion and the shredded carrots if you use them. I do, so it adds a bit of vegetable to the dish. When the onions are soft, add the garlic for 1 min.. Now turn up the heat and brown the ground meat. I usually push the onions to the side so they don't burn. Once the meat is nice brown and crumbly, season it with salt, pepper and Paprika. Then add the 250 ml of water and the brown gravy. Stir everything good. Bring back to a bubble. Take the pan off the heat and stir in the sour cream and that's it. 

We like to eat Noodles with it like elbow pasta, but also mashed potatoes or rice is going really good with it. \

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