Eating in a box

Our first port of call was Warnemunde, Germany. Warnemunde is a beach resort destination on the northern tip of Germany. It's usually only active during the summer season and considered a very popular surf destination. The beaches were very full of tourists both German and foreign alike. Warnemunde is also a fishing village. There were "food trucks" lined up one after another with their own smokers full of herring, cod and salmon selling both sandwiches, smoked and fresh fish. We stopped at a small local bar to order lunch. We started with a Warnemunde fish stew, tomato based with chunks of herring. The soup was a thicker "tomato soup and grilled cheese" type of tomato soup with various vegetables. Despite my best warnings my wife wanted to try the Eel in Aspic. It was served with skillet fried potatoes. My best description is "pickled eel in gelatin". Not my cup of tea (or jar), the fish had plenty of bones (the big center bone was the ...

It's cold, it's October, time for some more hearty food and where better to find such food than to celebrate with a German themed Oktoberfest Bento. It was tempting to go with standard well known Oktoberfest/German foods. I was ready to break out the meat grinder and sausage stuffer for some bratwurst when I stopped myself and thought, what else do Germans eat? Thinking back to my business trip this summer, the menus I saw in Frankfurt were chock full of great tasting foods. So I began researching German foods and came up with an nice list of stuff and found some good stuff from various "Omas" (grandmothers) and made some modifications for my own tastes voila we have lunch Let's start with the main entree Kummel Klopse. I'm a sucker for meatballs, really, if there's a list of things I can make and meatballs is on that list, then I'm going for the meatballs. I'm fascinated that every society/culture has some form of meatball, they are all different ...