Comments on: first snow and choucroute garni

By: Jessamyn

Jessamyn — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:17:35 +0000

Joanne,

Thanks for the kind comments! I agree about the choucroute – I love meat as much as anyone, but I really love the quietly complex flavors of the braised sauerkraut, with the meat being more of a punctuation mark.

So glad the recipe worked for you!

By: Joanne Charity

Joanne Charity — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:48:06 +0000

I read your blog regularly and have tried more than one of your offerings. Everything looks wonderful and your photography is beautiful but I couldn’t resist your charcroute garni – a favourite of mine and I’ve had it in Alsace and Germany. This is delicious and so easy!
I didn’t change a thing – the flavor so subtle. What I particularly enjoyed was the limited amount of meat – now don’t get me wrong I love love meat – but sometimes the offerings in charcroute are too much – not so this recipe. Highly recommend and thanks… Joanne

By: G

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:51:59 +0000

Rich is at the shop and it looks pretty good there but we’ve got almost 2 feet of snow here at the house…with a whiteout view from the front window.

By: Jessamyn

Jessamyn — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:34:29 +0000

I like the idea of a traditional first snowfall meal. How I wish I had some hot chocolate right this minute.

By: G

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:25:44 +0000

Hey nice snowfall effects.
For the first snowfall of the year we always have peanutbutter toast with hot chocolate. Not real creative but good.

By: J.

J. — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:22:28 +0000

Until the snow continued to fall, and fall, and fall. Monday and Tuesday weren’t too bad, but now it’s snowing again — another five and a half inches so far this morning with no sign of stopping.

Now, I’ve lived in Missouri and Minnesota and eastern Washington, where this sort of thing wouldn’t be all that unusual, but this is Western Washington. Snow like this isn’t supposed to happen here! Hrmph!