Choucroute Garnie (Kleine Schlachtplatte)

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Today’s  late lunch / early dinner has send me way back to my day’s of gluttony. I will have to live on apples for the next few days to make up for today’s culinary excess, but it was well worth it 🙂
After a few days of eating mostly fruits and vegetables, my cravings for some hearty soul food got the best of me and I gave in to my innermost desires of preparing and enjoying a beautiful “Choucroute Garnie”, also known in some parts of Swabia as “Kleine Schlachtplatte”.
(A “Kleine Schlachtplatte” consists of sauerkraut, boiled pig such as belly, loin, or knuckles, sausage such as blood pudding, fresh liverwurst or knackwurst and bread or potatoes – as opposed to a real  “Schlachtplatte”, which is eaten only on the day of butchering and processing a Hog and usually consists of sauerkraut, boiled pigs head or belly, fresh liverwurst and fresh blood pudding. Obviously, I had to make do with a “Kleine Schlachtplatte” today, which nevertheless was divine and deeply satisfying.
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Bon Appetit !   Live is Good !  (And sometimes fattening) 😦 🙂
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Choucroute Garnie  (Kleine Schlachtplatte)

Choucroute Garnie (Kleine Schlachtplatte)

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Choucroute Garnie  (Kleine Schlachtplatte)

Choucroute Garnie (Kleine Schlachtplatte)

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Choucroute Garnie  (Kleine Schlachtplatte)

Choucroute Garnie (Kleine Schlachtplatte)

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4 comments

  1. Love choucroute garnie- I learned how to make it from when I worked in DC with Alsactian Chef Edmund Foltzenlogel. I like to make it now days with the edition of duck leg confit and house made bacon.

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