Breakfast in Germany is different from the USA. They serve meat and cheese at every breakfast and often serve soft boiled eggs. Our house frau would ask what we would like to drink with our breakfast - coffee, tea, juice - and I would always ask for milk. They would then comment that I probably wanted that cold, right? German's don't seem to drink much milk and they definitely don't drink it cold.
The table set for breakfast in Salzburg.
The Salzburg spread....
continued. That is yogurt.
Our breakfast room in Salzburg. The couple eating here were from northern Germany and were biking - as in the kind you pedal - through the country.
Breakfast in Hallstatt, out in the yard.
One of the breads. It was very dense and 'grainy,' as you can see. Don said it was rye, but it tasted a little different than the rye I am used to.
Our Munich hotel had this very flowery breakfast room with an amazing spread.
In Rothenburg our house frau was not around to make us breakfast (we had called late for a room) so Don went to a bakery for the pastries and a shop for the yogurt and juice. The pastries are not anywhere near as sweet as ours, but soooo good. Strawberries were in season while we were there, so they were being sold in little stands and served on many things.
One of my favorite foods in Germany wasn't even German food! It was the Turkish Doner. I had one our first night in the country when I was tired and having a little melt down. We didn't know what it was, but it was good. We found out later that the Turkish immigrants started selling them and they caught on like wildfire. You can get them just about anywhere. Not in a restaurant, but in little shops in any town or city. I took a picture of the sign to show how the meat is cooked upright on a spit and then is shaved off. A yogurt -garlic sauce is added along with 'salad.' That first one in Kamen was actually the best one we found the entire time - while the other ones I had were all the same, the first one was actually a little different and extra yummy.
The real thing.
In the restaurants, the servers always brought the cutlery on a plate or in a basket, never in their hand.
I always asked for water, which received a variety of responses. At this place, the server brought our water like this. Do you know what is wrong with this picture?
Yes, it's the ice. They must get Americans who ask for ice - we never did - and she just brought it to us like this. Germans do not have ice in their water - when they drink water.
We had soups:
This is the best goulash we had. It had a deep beef flavor. It is basically broth.
Goulash at another place - good, but not AS good.
And another goulash. This one was a little more tomatoey.
And this goulash has the beef chuncks in it.
Spargelcremesuppe - cream of asparagas soup. They have mostly white asparagas and it was in season and being sold everywhere, also.
This spargelcremesuppe had a dollup of cream with almond shavings on top, but that had melted before I remembered to take the picture.
Rindfleishsuppe - beef soup with 'dumplings' that seemed more like Kix cereal to me :)
Don had a caprise salad in Munich.
Germany is a very meat and potatoes country. I was a little tired of that one night and ordered a salad with smoked salmon, not even thinking it would be RAW smoked salmon - lox. I couldn't eat very much, so Don traded dinners with me after awhile.
Frikadella - that's how it is pronounced, but I don't remember the spelling. This is a fast food option. They are like littel meatloafs that are fried.
Fresh fish straight from the lake in Hallstatt. We were actually sitting right on the lake when Don had this - well, as you will see later, anywhere in Hallstatt is basically 'right on the lake.'
My fish fresh from the lake the next night. And GREEN asparagas - that actually surprised me.
Turkey risotto - it was too dry.
Gnocchi
I didn't write down what this was actually called, but it is a kind of pasta and cheese with all those fried onions on top and was very good.
Spaghetti :)
Beef rouladen - I forgot the pictures until almost too late!
Potato pancakes served with applesauce.
Saurebraten - pork with a tangy gravy and rotkohl - red cabbage. Don loved it.
Lots of schnitzel.....
here....
here..... (Upon review, I remembered that this was actually more like a cordon bleu than schnitzel. Similar exterior, different interior :)
here.....
here - smothered with sauteed onions - so good - and four kinds of potatoes....
and our last day in Germany. Don insisted on finding some pork schnitzel. It was very good.
But what we ate the most of, by far, was wurst - sausage - of all types:
Don enjoyed curry wurst - the curry is just sprinkled over the sausage.
More curry wurst on the left and a cheese filled wurst on the right - served with the very common and popular brot - bread.
Wurst with potato salad and pommes - fries.
Don had a wurst platter - three types of sausage.
These were actually wieners that were very like our hot dogs. This one was in a cheesey pretzel.
I broke this wiener in half before I got the picture. You can imagine how it just hung out both sides. Eating a wurst or wiener in bread is an American influenced phenomenon.
Weiss wurst - white sausage - is a Bavarian, or southern, specialty. It is served with a sweet mustard and is quite different. I liked it.
Veal wurst - not really wurst - and I wondered if I was being a bad person for eating this. It was very tasty. Those are mashed potatoes, too.
And, of course, we sampled desserts throughout the country. They look rich, and I suppose they were, but they just aren't as sweet as American desserts. They were yummy! Ummm.
Actually more of a cross between fry bread and a donut. I thought it was okay.
This was called germknopfel. It seemed to be a boiled bread that was filled with a plum sauce and smothered in a vanilla cream, sprinkled with poppy seeds and served warm. I am a huge bread fan, but this was not a favorite and Don didn't care for it at all.
And one of the MANY eis we had.
My mouth has been watering while making this post!
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