Gary and Aimee were totally exhausted after the long flight, so we decided to spend an evening at home cooking and watching the World Cup.
I made schnitzel, creamed spinach, and spaetzle with a wild mushroom cream sauce. Yum! It was not nearly as tasty as at German restaurants, but I’m just learning 🙂 We had our new favorite beer with dinner. It’s so good because it is only €1,65 for six 0.5 Liter bottles… LOL!
I made a mistake. I went grocery shopping on an empty stomach:/ The peanuts didn’t make it home intact… Woops!
After getting up early to pick up Gary and Aimee in Munich, I made a lovely picnic spread for the Biergarten at the English Garden. I ran out if time for breakfast at home. I made coffee and we hit the road.
We picked them up and headed strait to the English Garden. We had liter beers, sausage, cherries, pretzel, and fresh veggies (sorry not pictured). Delicious, odd, breakfast:)
THE Bavarian beer house! So much fun! It’s huge. It’s loud. It’s full of beer and music- can it get any better? Not sure, but we had a blast. We each had liter mugs of beer. Cold. Refreshing. Perfect. BEER!
I was feeling a bit heavy after all the beer, pretzels, meat, and sorbet so I opted for the fresh vegetable platter… LOL! Beware! the fresh veg platter comes with half a chicken and butter sautéed mushrooms 😀 Unexpected, but quite yummy!
Adam had the four wiener dinner. Again, LOL 🙂 The German potato salad was perfectly creamy and tart. The wieners were fine- good quality hot dogs. Not my kind of thing, but Adam seemed to really enjoy his meal.
We took a relaxing stroll through the English garden (it had finally started to cool off). What a beautiful park! It’s one of the largest city parks in the world and perhaps the only German English garden with a Chinese Pavillion serving as a Biergarten 😉
I don’t think I’ve mentioned how quiet Germany is. It’s wonderful! We noticed it immediately when we got into the airport in Munich. German people are simply quiet. Busy streets, airports, restaurants, quiet. It’s really nice, but strange to our American senses.
The English garden was very serene and quiet until… Is that singing? Glass shattering? Rambunctious laughter? We had been walking in the garden for quite some time when we heard uncharacteristically loud voices. We headed towards the light… It was a crowded Biergarten in the middle of a huge, pedestrian only park! Awesome!
Too fun to miss! We each had a beer and shared a pretzel with mustard. We officially love Munich ❤
It was hot today and we walked a lot (Adam estimates at least 11 miles). We needed some sweet, refreshing relief!
We stopped by a street-side sorbet stand 🙂 I had mango and Adam had lemon- just what we needed to carry on a busy day of sightseeing!
We found a great Bavarian cafe near the Marienplatz so we stopped for lunch. Great call Adam! We each had a beer, of course.
Adam had the roasted pork knuckle with potato dumplings and sweet and sour bacon-cabbage salad. Wow! The pork was simultaneously tender and as Adam described it, “Strong. Not tough. Strong.” 🙂 It had an awesomely crispy, cracklin exterior and a rich gravy over the tender, mild dumplings. The salad was equally delicious.
I had the veal meatballs with creamy bacon cabbage. So tasty! The meatballs were light and herbal. The cabbage was creamy and porky, but not heavy or greasy. Overall, really delicious Bavarian lunch!
Whoa baby!!!
Coffee, apple slices, toasted bio baguette with butter, salt, and Himbeer jam. Yum!
Wurzburg was absolutely beautiful! Cobbled streets, Baroque and Rococo architecture all set against the stunning, vineyard-lined Main river valley- it really was romantic 🙂
We had dinner at an adorable restaurant located on one of the oldest bridges in Germany, dating back to Roman times. I had a delightful, bubbly white wine similar to prosecco that the waitress said came from the vineyard across the river. Adam had a cold, refreshing local brew. We shared the house-cured meats platter- liver wurst, blood sausage, salami, land jaeger, smoked ham, and cured ham with light rye bread, gherkins, mustard, horseradish, butter, and raw onion. It was all excellent. I loved the smoked ham and Adam preferred the land jaeger. So much for meatless Monday 😉
P.S. Gas was $8.51 per gallon today. OUCH!
Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner. 