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The Tyrol: Tiroler Schweinsstelze (Tyrolean Knuckle of Pork)

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      Title: Tiroler Schweinsstelze (Tyrolean Knuckle of Pork)
 Categories: Tyrolean, Pork, Meats
      Yield: 4 Servings
 
      1    Knuckle of pork (unsmoked)
      1    Garlic clove
      1 ts Coarse salt
      1 ts Caraway seeds
      1    Clove
      3    Juniper berries
           French, preferably tarragon,
           -mustard
      3 tb Lard or pork dripping
           Good stock
      3 tb Double cream or whipping
           -cream
      6    Slices unsmoked bacon

Belgium: Côtelettes de porc a la Flamande (Flanders-style Pork Chops with Apple and Cider)

It's interesting how firmly an adjective can get attached to a recipe. Say "a la Flamande" to most cooks, and almost all of those who've ever heard the phrase before will instantly add the word "Carbonnade" to the front of it, citing the famous recipe for beef in Belgian beer.

Yet they do drink other things in Belgium, and cook with other things. There is, for example, some good hard cider around. (We specify "hard" here for the sake of our North American readers: in Europe, cider is always alcoholic, and everything else is just apple juice.) Stassen is probably the best-known of the Belgian ciders. But other ones would certainly have made their way across the border from France (when the local farmers weren't already brewing their own cider out back). It was only a matter of time before some good dry cider found itself into a pork dish like this, displacing the ubiquitous beer. (Though EuroCuisineGuy, a Belgian beer fan to the last, points out that this recipe would also work nicely with one of the sharp dry fruit beers like Kriek or framboise.)

The spicing in this dish is interesting. The presence of the juniper berries and the rosemary suggests that the people who first came up with the recipe saw an advantage in flavoring it as if it was something gamier -- specifically wild boar. Whatever, the juniper certainly enhances the flavor of the pork, pointing up the fruity quality of the apples as well.

Plated up with the côtelette in the image is shredded baby cabbage baked in cream.

Click on "read more" for the recipe.

Tyrol: Panicia cun cern sfumieda y bales (Barley Soup with Smoked Pork and Dumplings)

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      Title: Panicia cun cern sfumieda y bales / Barley soup with...
 Categories: Soups, Val gardena, Smoked, Tyrolian
      Yield: 4 servings
 
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           Smoked bacon or pork
           Water
           Barley
      1    Finely chopped onion
      1    Clove garlic, finely chopped
      1    Carrot, cut into rounds
      1    Potato, peeled and cubed

MMMMM-------------------------DUMPLINGS------------------------------
      1    Finely chopped onion

Germany: Oktoberfest, 2007

The interior of the Loewenbraeu tent this morning. Click for a live image

"It's tapped!" That's what they were shouting in September 2007 in the Theresienwiese, "Queen Therese's Meadow", when the ceremonial first barrel of beer was tapped by the Mayor of the City of Munich, officially opening the 174th Oktoberfest.

Over the course of Oktoberfest 2007, more than ten million liters of beer were drunk by the visitors from all over the world who came to the "Wies'n" to visit the fourteen massive tents housing the Big Six breweries and other food and entertainment facilities, to ride the thrill rides, to eat roast oxen and roast chicken and charcoal-grilled mackerel and soft pretzels and decorated gingerbread, and generally to have a great time.

You may not have been able to get to the tents yourself, but wherever you are, if you're reading this it's easy for you to visit our extensive German recipe collections. Stop in and make a little Oktoberfest for yourself right at home!

You can also find out more about Oktoberfest here at the Oktoberfest.de FAQ page.

(Also: The article from German news magazine Der Spiegel about the big business aspects of Oktoberfest is an interesting read.)

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