Dear Germans, German-Americans and Germophiles

[Strike For The South]

Ok Im looking for a food and google is not helping.

A while back I was in Fredricksburg where we stopped at a German restaurant and I tasted some of the local fare.

I had

Spoetzel (Good)
Hot German Potato salad (Which I didn't like)
Various breads and cheeses (very good)
Some type of sausage (Very Good)

The main dish is what I can't find, its roast beef thinly sliced with onions and pickles. Then it's covered in brown gravy. I think it was called Raluden but google gives me nothing

Thanks in advance.

[Fragony]

Rollade? http://www.grootslagerijhietbrink.nl/runderrollade.jpg

[Strike For The South]

Rollade? http://www.grootslagerijhietbrink.nl/runderrollade.jpg

Not really

[Strike For The South]

Thanks EMFM

You were close Frag.

[Subotan]

I'm not sure why German cooking gets slagged off so often. It's much better than British cooking.

[Yoyoma1910]

We Cajuns invented a version of the roulade (or rouladen, as they call it in German cuisine), which you may know as the Turducken.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[FactionHeir]

Never eat German potato salad hot. Ever. Its really delicious cold (mayo, potato, ham, sometimes some noodles)

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

We Cajuns invented a version of the roulade (or rouladen, as they call it in German cuisine), which you may know as the Turducken.

If by Cajuns you mean French royals, then you'd be right.

[Oleander Ardens]

Southgerman cousine is IMHO quite good. The Italians actually absolutly adore alpine tyrolean/southtyrolean cousine especially when in the mountains. We have the best desserts in the whole world - if so many nationalities I met say so

BTW most German dishes stand head and shoulders above anything typical I tasted in England and the USA. Terrible stuff, or at least most of it. I can't understand why a so much higher percentage is overweight there than here (Tyrol). Given the relative quality of food it should be the other way around.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

BTW most German dishes stand head and shoulders above anything typical I tasted in England and the USA.

Fried chicken. BBQ.

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

Preztels !

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Why is it Brezel here and Pretzel there?

[Yoyoma1910]

If by Cajuns you mean French royals, then you'd be right.

Nope, the Turducken is a Cajun dish. Les Roi went too far with it, and used too many birds. They didn't understand subtlety.


Really anything can be made into a roulade. A common one here is a chicken roulade, where we completely debone a (half: you actually get two per) hen, then basically stuff the dark meat in the white meat, with cheese and spices between the two. It's very good.

[Subotan]

Why is it Brezel here and Pretzel there?

I noticed this too. All the Germans gave me funny looks when I asked for pretzels.

[Louis VI the Fat]

I rather like German food. Hearty meals, pork, sausages, beer in giant glasses.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Nope, the Turducken is a Cajun dish. Les Roi went too far with it, and used too many birds. They didn't understand subtlety.

IIRC though, the French did it first and the Cajuns came up with the specific combination of birds. French invention and Cajun refinement?

[Yoyoma1910]

IIRC though, the French did it first and the Cajuns came up with the specific combination of birds. French invention and Cajun refinement?

The act of stuffing animals inside of each other can be traced back at least to the medieval period. There are countless variations on it. As with all dishes, each variation and combination within this category are different recipes, and can have different names.

Do we call every cake just "a cake?" Is not a chocolate cake different from a banana nut? Is not a Devil's food different from a German Chocolate (named after the man, not the people BTW)?

While I do not claim that Cajun people invented the act of stuffing birds inside each other, the Turducken is ours.


Edit:

Also, the Cajun's are descendants of French colonists, who have existed in a relatively isolated community for several centuries. So yes, either way, the French invented it.

[Subotan]

Queen Victoria's favourite Christmas dish involved stuffing at least 5 birds inside each other.

[Yoyoma1910]

Queen Victoria's favourite Christmas dish involved stuffing at least 5 birds inside each other.

There's a woman after my own heart.

[Husar]

I like to see birds stuffing birds as well...

Oh wait, this is about food.

Yesterday I made myself rice with ground beef, and I even made a sauce with the ground beef, for the first time!
If I go on cooking like that maybe I can invite you for dinner SFTS?

[Fixiwee]

Try austrian food.

[miotas]

Try austrian food.

How's about Australian food

Big juicy steaks, marinated chicken breasts, a few snags and rissoles, some onions, and eggs all done on the barbie, and a few taters baked in their jackets, all topped off by a bit of salad for the sheilas, and drowned in tomato and bbq sauce.

Sounds like bloody good tucker to me *drools all over keyboard*

[Yoyoma1910]

Try austrian food.

I have. I lived in Innsbruck for 8 months. I didn't know there were so many ways to make a schnitzel.

[Fragony]

I have. I lived in Innsbruck for 8 months. I didn't know there were so many ways to make a schnitzel.

There can be only one. With these things, don't know how you call it, we call it ansjovis;

http://www.boemba.be/recepten/img/ansjovis.jpg

And some lemon.

Perfection.

[Yoyoma1910]

There can be only one. With these things, don't know how you call it, we call it ansjovis;

http://www.boemba.be/recepten/img/ansjovis.jpg

And some lemon.

Perfection.

Anchovies.

[KukriKhan]

<----- made rouladen last night. Used onion, pickle, celery & carrot for stuffing. Gravy over it and baby spuds, with mustard on the side for dip.

Big hit with Mrs. K., who usually approaches my "experiments" (as she calls them) with hesitation. Zero leftovers.

Thanks for reminding me of a great German dish, and inspiring me to give it a shot.

[KarlXII]

Blutwurst.

That is all.

[Strike For The South]

Blutwurst.

That is all.

This coming from a man whose countries one claim to fame is putting jelly instead of tomato suace on meatballs.

[KarlXII]

This coming from a man whose countries one claim to fame is putting jelly instead of tomato suace on meatballs.

And great jelly it is.

[Strike For The South]

And great jelly it is.