We had our first hospitalized troop this week. It’s actually impressive we’ve been doing Cooking Army for six and a half years and this is our first purple heart. But potato peeling? Really? Why can’t JP just get shrapnel to the ass like everyone else?
Schnitzel (chicken and pork)
For this, we didn’t really have much of a recipe, we took chick breasts and pork loin chops, tenderized them with a meat hammer, dipped them in egg (whisking the egg yoke and white together beforehand), then dipping them into breadcrumbs along with pepper and some other seasonings, then pan frying them in an oiled skillet on the stove until they were a solid brown.
These were pretty decent, standard fare shnitzel.
Oxtail Soup: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Oxtail-Soup-with-Red-Wine-and-Root-Vegetables-102123
This was made in a huge quantity, but it was mostly broth. Fairly tasty still.
Homemade Bavarian Pretzels: http://www.theoktoberfest.com/HTML/pretzel/index.html
This was best of the night, absolutely awesome. If you like pretzels, THIS is the way to make’em.
German Potato Salad: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/bobby-flay/german-potato-salad-recipe/index.html
Pretty good, a bit sour, but then agian, that’s what german potato salad is supposed to be. There was no blood mixed in either.