Today was German cooking day, and Emese invited us to her place. She planned to cook German cuisine with a soup, a main dish, and a dessert. Before cooking, we stopped by Lidl to buy ingredients.
1. Flädlesuppe
The soup is actually Austrian, but it’s also popular in Germany. The soup is made with carrots, parsley, broth cubes, and pancake strips.
First, we had to make the pancakes, and Melina took care of that part. Yang and I also chopped vegetables for the soup.
I couldn’t imagine what the soup would taste like, as it’s unusual to eat pancakes in soup for me. Surprisingly, the pancakes in the soup tasted similar to fish cake in Korea, so it tasted more familiar than I expected.
2. Semmelknödel mit Pilzrahmsoße
Semmelknödel is eaten with the sauce, which is a mushroom cream sauce. We had to use a lot of mushrooms, so we used a combination of fresh and canned ones. Since there are no canned mushrooms in Korea, I found it interesting.
Emese told us this is her favorite dish. The cooking process was interesting. I cut up two-day-old bread and mixed it with eggs, oat milk, and salt. Since I love bread with cream, there was no reason for me not to like it. This dish became my favorite, just like it is for Emese.
3. Apfelstrudel mit Vanillesoße
For dessert, we had apple pie called ‘Apfelstrudel’.
we didn’t need to make it from scratch, just bake it in the oven. The apple pie with vanilla cream was sweet and delicious.
While waiting for the food to be ready, we listened to some German music. I have never listened to German music before, but I became interested. Surprisingly, Melina and Emese knew the same song ‘99 red balloons’ as lyrics in different languages. It is said that it was used as advertising music in the past. It was my first time hearing it, but I got addicted and kept humming it.
Before eating, we said “Guten Appetit”, which means “Enjoy your meal”. Since there were dishes with sauce, I learned that the German word “mit” means “with”. I was also proud of recognizing the German letter ‘ß’, which I learned at our first meeting.
Before this, the only German dishes I knew were made with meat, like Schweinshaxe, and Schnitzel. But now, I’ve become more interested in different kinds of German cuisine.
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