Sometimes cooking and firing up the stove-oven isn’t an appealing option, tired or not. Salads are simple, easy and convenient to make (and often inexpensive.)
The Salami salad:
1/2 Head Iceberg lettuce
Small jar of green olives (pit free)
2 slices of your favorite real cheese
green salad onions
2 slices of salami
Chopped everything up, mix together, and serve. Top with your favorite dressing.
Tuna on Greens Salad:
1 large bag of mixed greens
1 Roma tomato
1 can of tuna
1 small jar of green olives
Chop up the tomato, mix everything together, serve. Add favorite salad dressing. Garnish with carrot sticks.
Woohoo!!! Attending Rosenmontags Festival today is beyond description, the hooping, hollering and joy was infectious, and everyone was in attendance, including this American ( I even dressed up as little red riding hood, sans wolf.)
Here is a bit of history (which I had to look up to get a better understanding.) Compliments of Wikepedia
In parts of East and South Germany, as well as in Austria, the carnival is called Fasching. In Franconia and Baden-Württemberg as well as some other parts of Germany, the carnival is called Fas(t)nacht, Fassenacht or Fasnet; in Switzerland, Fasnacht.
While Germany’s carnival traditions are mostly celebrated in the predominantly Roman Catholic southern and western parts of the country, the Protestant North traditionally knows a festival under the Low Saxon names Fastelavend [ˈfastl̩.ˌɒːvm̩t], Fastelabend [ˈfastl̩.ˌɒːbm̩t] and Fastlaam (also spelled Fastlom) [ˈfastl̩ɒːm]. This name has been imported to Denmark as Fastelavn and is related to Vastenoavond in the Low-Saxon-speaking parts of the Netherlands. It is traditionally connected with farm servants or generally young men going from house to house in the villages and collecting sausages, eggs and bacon, which was consumed in a festivity on the same evening. While going from house to house they wore masks and made noise. The old tradition vanished in many places, in other places under influence of German carnival traditions it came to resemble carnival with its parades.
Beginning and peak of the festival season
The carnival session, also known as the “Fifth Season”, begins each year on 11 November at 11:11 a.m. and finishes on Ash Wednesday of the following year with the main festivities happening around Rosenmontag (Rose Monday).
Although the festivities and parties start as early as the beginning of January, the actual carnival week starts on the Fat Thursday (Weiberfastnacht) before Ash Wednesday (in Germany). The big German carnival parades are held on the weekend before and especially on Rosenmontag, the day before Shrove Tuesday, and sometimes also on Shrove Tuesday (Faschingsdienstag or Veilchendienstag) itself in the suburbs of larger carnival cities.
Mix 3/4 cup sugar, butter, flour, salt, baking powder, and milk together. Place cherries in the bottom of a 9 inch square pan. Spread dough over cherries.
In a small bowl, combine 1 cup sugar and cornstarch. Stir in boiling water. Pour mixture over the dough.
Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 45 minutes. Serve warm.
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1 can of drained olives (pitted), 6 basil leaves, 1/2 cup mayonaise, salt, pepper
and a can of tuna, 1/2 cup of sour cream, blened it all together
Blending all the ingredients together until smooth
Add chopped-diced tomates to the tuna mix
Make pasta according to package directs, when 1 minute from being done, add a can of green peas to the pasta, finish cooking. Strains pasta-pea combo in a strainer/colander
Mix tuna ‘sauce’ with pasta-peas, and serve!!
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An impromptu afternoon in Pforzheim on a lovely day, the weather was perfect and the wind was not blowing and the sun peeked out to brighten the day.
A bit of history includes:
Johann Reuchlin was born atPforzheim in the Black Forest in 1455, where his father was an official of the Dominican monastery. According to the fashion of the time, his name was graecized by his Italian friends into Capnion (Καπνίων), a nickname which Reuchlin used as a sort of transparent mask when he introduced himself as an interlocutor in the De Verbo Mirifico. He remained fond of his home town; he constantly calls himself Phorcensis, and in the De Verbo he ascribes to Pforzheim his inclination towards literature. (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
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Add water to the corn meal mix and diced spicy peppers, whisk together
warm skillet with a little butter or oil
Spoon in batter to make skillet bread, fry on both sides
Chopped-Diced Garlic, Green bell peppers, onions, red chili peppers
Curry spices, a can of red kidney beans and sunflower oil
Add chopped vegetables witha bit of oil to the same skillet that you fried the skillet bread in , sauteting the vegetables et al, with 1 tablespooon of curry spices
once the vegetables are lightly sauted, add the whole can of kidney beans, with liquid
place the skillet bread on the plate and top with bean and vegetable mix
Serve a delicous meal
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A long day of walking and siteseeing wound down with a lovely evening of church bells chiming to ring in the beauty of the day, which, of course, included a dark-strong coffee in a Italian cafe on the river’s edge. The river and the bells provided a lovely musical venue, with a menagerie of lyrical beauty.
There is a beautiful, old fashioned wooden bridge that crosses the river Murg, providing an exquisite view of the Murg Valley and Murg River, bubbling over stones and dancing its way through the village. The cool, balmy air filled the senses with the delights of the earth, wood burning stoves and roasting sauages in the market square.
A delightful evening of pure enjoyment for all the senses–a quiet village well worth seeing–and a wonderful place to stay even longer.
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