German Grub!!!

Last night I had the most amazing meal. Friends and Family gave there helping hands in the preparation of an amazing home cooked German meal. The evening started off with homemade giant stuffed mushrooms.





Ginny was the master chef on the mushroom duty. Toasting fresh bread for the breadcrumbs, followed by mincing a ton of fresh garlic, then putting all the magic in a mixing bowl and making some yummy goodness.





Since I don't care much for the fungi family, I just ate the yummy stuffing. Elizabeth was carefully slicing ever so finely fresh cucumbers for cucumber salad which was tossed with a roasted hazelnut olive oil.









Lisa was mixing a batch of flour goo for our homemade Spaetzle. We acquired a vintage Spaetzle maker from an old friend who so graciously gave it to us. It was her mother's, so you know that it has seen some serious German cooking throughout its lifetime.




















I don't know if you have ever heard of Wickles or tried them but I tried them for the first time last night and here is the result.

So now you have seen the cause and effect of these little wicked pickles.









For the main course we had what we call Steak Birds. This consist of a round steak browned, wrapped around a pickle and cooked in a mustard sauce. YUMMY!!!The recipe typically calls for a homemade mustard sauce but we love the Central Markets Mustard Remoulade. It is a bit spicy but super super tasty.



This wonderful meal was followed by some fresh plums and apricots with warm Brie!!!!
What a way to end a wonderful Saturday Night!!!

Fall is in the air

Welcome Fall!!! I am so excited that you are here. I love the changing weather. Everyday it gets one degree cooler. When you live in Southern Texas you notice and look forward to those one degree cooler days. We still have at least 80% humidity with an actual humidity of 90%, but at least I know that cooler weather is coming and it makes it bearable.
I love love love fall!!! I love the smell of the changing air, the ways the trees are breathing a sigh of relief from the August heat and how there just seems to be a change of attitude out and about.
My last blog I was talking about how I was on a journey to becoming Ann and just trying to find myself and figure out what this life is about. Well I have been doing some more thinking and I have come to the conclusion that I just need to live. I just need to experience life for what it is and enjoy the moments both happy and sad as they come to me. I don't want to waste a minute of this precious life journey that I am on.
I am enjoying this lazy Saturday in my wonderful home filled with music and laughter and kids playing and yelling and just sheer chaos and I am loving it. We started the morning off just being lazy in bed and sleeping until I just couldn't sleep anymore. I was awakened by my sweet boys little voice. What a blessing to hear the first thing in the morning!!! I took a long bath while sipping Mimosas with my wonderful significant other. We had a wonderful brunch which featured eggs benedict, fresh berries, organic grapes and of course more mimosas!!! So, needless to say I am still on a journey, but instead of being so inward focus on finding out who Ann is I am just going to enjoy my journey and post when I can of all the wonderful blessings in my life to come. Grab a mimosa and say cheers to life and all the blessings that it has to offer!!!