Dinner – Pork and Sauerkraut with whipped potatoes and home made apple sauce
We slept in a bit this morning. I watched Manchester United beat Swansea handily. Suzette made breakfast. She made what I call a reconstructed Egg Sandwich. What she did was make a flat pan of eggs and then lay crisp fried bacon and a slice of cheese and a slice of tomato on it and fold the edge of the egg over to sandwich the ingredients between the two layers of egg.
At 9:40 we left for Mt. Gretna, which is about a half hour car drive from Elizabethtown. We arrived and were directed on a circuitous drive to arrive at a parking field, from which we were golf carted to the entrance. The Mt. Gretna Arts Fair is an annual event held on the grounds of the Mt. Gretna Chautauqua camp. There were hundreds of booths this year and more on the outside of the park. We walked around for about an hour and saw about 2/3 of the booths until I got hungry and tired. We made our way to the food court and saw lovely large glasses filled with fruit, yogurt, and granola. I bought one and shared it. We viewed the rest of the booths and then walked to the arts and crafts area outside the park. We immediately saw a food truck with crab cake sandwiches and gyros. I bought one of each. Suzette ate the crab cake and said it was rather bready. I took a gyros that was delicious and ate all the pita to keep up my energy level. After walking the six aisles of crafts area outside the park we headed back to the car. Suzette told me that we had walked 2.5 miles.
We bought a teaup from an oriental potter named Cho, a picture made by a lady raises her own alpacas and makes felt from their fur, and interesting coasters made with canvas wrapped in fabric that is then painted and coated with polyurethane.
We left Mt. Gretna around 2:00 and drove to Quentin and had a drink at the Quentin Inn and did some antiquing and the drove back to E town.
After resting we went with Mr. and Mrs. Lindemuth first to the farmers’ market where we bought white corn and then to the supermarket to shop for ingredients for our picnic lunch tomorrow. We bought Fresh mozzarella, vine ripe tomatoes and Vidalia onions for a caprese salad, plus bananas, asparagus, black beans for a bean salad and a head of Romaine lettuce for suzette to use to make ham wraps.
When we returned home around 6:00 Mrs. Lindemuth prepared whipped potatoes to go with the already cooked pork and Sauerkraut and homemade apple sauce and steamed the asparagus. We opened the bottle of 2016 Carayon Rose’ we brought from N.M. (Trader Joe’s $5.99) and enjoyed a wonderful Pennsylvania Deutsch dinner.
I learned two things from this dinner. The quality of the Sauerkraut makes a big difference and the addition on apple sauce is essential to balance vinegary saltiness of the pork and sauerkraut.
Mrs. Lindemuth told us that the Sauerkraut we ate this evening was hand made by a person. Not by a large company.
Bon Appetit
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