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By Ken Yeager Well, the Christmas tree is up and decorated. Cookies and candy abound in the living room and the wine and sekt (German equivalent of champagne but sometimes better) is cooling in the fridge. Gifts are all bought but not yet wrapped (I love these bags that look like wrapped gifts…must have [...] By Ken Yeager In case some of you may have wondered what has happened to the that Yeager kid who seems to have something to say about everything on this site; no, I have not died and gone to H….(I’ll leave the rest of the word to the thoughts of the reader). The fact [...] By Ken Yeager As I write this, there are 24 days left in the U.S. Government’s fiscal year. That means that I am in Frankfurt helping to send your tax dollars in support of the U.S. Department of State and numerous other Government agencies stationed outside of the U.S.A. It also means that in 25 days I will be headed home, home being Grosshansdorf, Germany where my lonely wife awaits me. I arrived back in Frankfurt on July 5th, having driven down in a rented car loaded with all of my stuff…I cannot live out of a suitcase for three months….I need my STUFF. The following weekend I went home by train (the DeutcheBahn’s Intercity Express – ICE, the Germany equivalent of the Japanese Bullet Train, but much slower), spent the night and rode the motorcycle back to Frankfurt. This time, instead of using the Autobahn I decided to enjoy the secondary roads of Germany….Unfortunately, it was one of the hottest days Germany had experienced in decades…it was like driving into a hair dryer set on high. Very uncomfortable and my poor behind was sore from almost eight hours in the saddle. Continue reading Sunday In Germany: Frankfurt – Ken’s Summer Prattle. By Ken Yeager OK, the sun is shining and the temperatures are predicted to be in the 70’s, so for north Germany it is warm. Today we had lunch on terrace under our umbrella….white asparagus, boiled potatoes, a slice of cooked ham and a slice of katenschinken, melted butter, bottled water, a very nice fruity Saar Riesling and strawberries for dessert. Nice indeed. This coming Saturday, we are off to the island of Sylt which, if you have read any of my idiotic early posts, is the northern-most part of Germany. Use Google Earth and enter Sylt, Germany and you will immediately see the island. Wikipedia (Sylt) also gives some good information about the island. If you look closely at Google Earth, you will see that the island is actually connected to the mainland by the Hindenburgdamm. We will leave Grosshansdorf by car and it will take about 3-1/2 to 4 hours to get to Sylt, depending on the traffic and the car-train connection. Once on the island, we will head north to the little town of List where we have rented an apartment for two weeks. By Ken Yeager It is that time again when the Germans go a bit nuts over white asparagus. Partly because the season is pretty short, between six to eight weeks, depending on the weather, but also because, I have to say, it tastes good. Think of it, boiled potatoes, a nice slice of Kateschinken (ham, sort of like Parma, but a different smoke), white asparagus with melted butter or hollandaise sauce and of course, a nice chilled glass of Riesling white wine and, naturally, a bottle of mineral water to refresh the palette. White asparagus grows completely underground and is only exposed to the sun while it is being harvested. Much of it is grown under plastic sheets to magnify the heat and make it grow faster. The stuff isn’t cheap because it must be harvested by hand and imported labor is primarily used, mostly Poles….Germans don’t like to do work like that. The season starts in May and ends towards the middle of June and during that time, Germans will eat tons of the stuff in a variety of ways. I personally am especially fond of asparagus cream soup, but I’ve also eaten it baked in tinfoil, on pizza and in chicken fricassee and I am sure there are many more ways to eat this vegetable. Asparagus is supposed to be good for the kidneys. Immediately after one eats asparagus, the urine has a very strong smell and this is supposed to be a good sign of flushing the kidneys (who knows). Continue reading Weisser Spargel (White Asparagus) season in Germany |
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