Food or Why I'm Not Thin

This will just be a listing of great foods we have been enjoying. This place has terrific food! This first one is a beef soup that Corwin ordered. You often get the broth and noodles in the bowl and vegetables and meat on another plate. This picture was taken after Corwin had already moved most of the meat and the carrot from the plate and added them to the broth. That leaves a large potato, 2 slices of dumpling and some more of the beef meat on the side plate. The bones were vertebrae, so it was probably neck meat. Then you add all of it together.



This soup was served with just the meat in the bowl and a plate to the side holding the vegetables and a pitcher of broth. This is what it looked like when Corwin put it all together. This one included sour cream. Bread always comes with soup. At one restaurant we saw many other folks having a bowl with a large dumpling in it and a large pitcher of broth on the side.



This is a fried smoked cheese I had. It had toast and a great fresh salad with it. All the salads have lots of cucumber and yellow peppers along with tomatoes and lettuce. Dressings are usually made of yogurt or mayonnaise. Always good--but remember my motto "I've never met a carbohydrate I didn't like."



This tongue sandwich was good as well. Just a little culinary trip down memory lane. I think my Mom's tongue sandwiches had thicker meat and thinner bread, but this one was still good. The salad was in a basket affair made of some sort of cheese flavored dough.



Here's another favorite food--gizzard goulash! It was served with some very interesting round pasta--almost like risotto, but not.


This was a great one. It was a grilled chicken breast covered with tomatoes, basil and fresh mozzarella cheese. It came with fried potatoes and some salad and we ordered a side cucumber salad. Yum! At the top is Corwin's plate with some slaw and a pickle showing.



We've taken trains five hours to the south and four hours to the east and have not seen one hog in a field. We did see some sheep and a few cows, but no pigs. And the great majority of the restaurant menus and the meat in the stores is PORK. Where does it come from? We need to travel west. Maybe that is the Hungarian Iowa.
Anyway, this is one of the many pork dishes we've enjoyed--pork chops with onion rings, sliced fried potatoes and pureed peas.



This was one of my favorites--pork medallions with mushrooms and dumplings. I love these dumplings and you can buy them dry in a bag like we buy pasta. Wonderful! I plan to bring several bags home. The mushrooms are also wonderful--all kinds! They have the kind like we have in the US and all the other weird looking floppy ones. They have all been so good. Again we ordered a side cucumber salad. This one came with sour cream.



This is pork again. It's a cutlet, sort of rolled up and stuffed with cheese and sausage and it's sitting on some mashed potatoes and red cabbage.



This is a catfish goulash. It wasn't my favorite, but it was worth a try. The best part was the square noodles that came with it. They were covered with cottage cheese which was very tasty.



This is another pork cutlet that Corwin ordered with red cabbage, slaw and french fries. Also very good.



Now we come to desserts. They are wonderful as well. This is ONE serving of an apple strudel with a vanilla sauce.



And this is a vanilla pudding with dried fruit in it swimming in a raspberry sauce with a chocolate wafer.

We quite often have to eat only soup so that we have enough room for dessert or eat a regular meal at noon and then have just dessert and coffee at night.

Bon appetit or eet smakelek or happy eating!