Ideas for additional sides w/choucroute garni
My spouse, the most excellent jackp has decided we will have choucroute garni for New Year's Eve. That's a lovely idea, and we'll be hosting my sister, her husband and their two daughters. As is often the case with kids, the girls think sauerkraut is radioactive and won't touch it. That's fine; it leaves more for the rest of us, but I'd like to have another vegetable or two to balance out the meat and potatoes the kids will be consuming. Any ideas?,
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Will Owen
Dec 29, 2006 05:21 AM
I'd never contemplated the question, since I just mash a bunch of potatoes and let it go at that, but I guess it is a legitimate thing to think about. My feeling is that I'd want to move away from that fat warm greasiness, maybe into a fruit salad of some sort with apples and fresh orange segments tossed with raisind, celery and nuts, like a sort of combination Waldorf salad and ambrosia, or else do crisp-tender young green beans, just parboiled, blanched, and then tossed with butter to finish them up. The first time I had choucroute garni it was prepared by a woman from Strasbourg, who served it with what she called pommes de terre Alsacienne - finely chopped onion cooked to transparency in lots of butter, and then beaten into sour cream, which sauce was served over boiled potatoes. Divine, but probably lethal to anyone over 50...
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hotoynoodle
Dec 29, 2006 02:22 AM
as a kid i wouldn't have touched cabbage, or any of the traditional complementary choucroute side dishes, with a 10-foot pole.
spaetzle is a good suggestion, but honestly, it's new years' eve. why stress? let them eat sausage and spuds and go to bed, lol.
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