Grocholl Bratkartoffeln mit Speck & Zwiebeln

[Gheorghe]

18 hours ago, mikeweil said:

Getting good bread is really becoming harder every year.

That´s some good bread, and this one is bread with potatoes. That kind of round bread often is called "house bread" . 
The worst is bread that´s already cut and sold in celofan. The slices are too thin for really hand cut bread, but sometimes it´s the only solution "out of necessity". 

[mikeweil]

I prefer bread made the old traditional way, but there are less and less craftsmen putting up with rising early in the morning to make dough and let it it sit for hours etc. Modern factory made bread is available everywhere. There is one left in a suburb but l would have to take a long bus ride there. There is one making excellent whole grain bread that l know from scratch as l lived round the corner when they started in the late 1970's. Without them my wife and myself would be desparate. They now have branches all over town. 

[Gheorghe]

It´s a rarity anywhere in Europe and to my annoyment sometimes you find only bread that´s already cut , even in good old Eastern Europe. But in my childhood and in general being kids and being sent to buy the bread for the family around the corner, on the way back we would break the crocant upper crust and eat it so the bread was not complete anymore when we  came home , very annoying for the adults, sometimes leading to a little "spankin´" 😄

Well, modern factory bread, yeah, but I don´t even have the time to take the tramvai - ride to Mariahilfer Strasse to buy the bread at the "Balkan-Bakery" or to the Turkish "Süpermarket". 

But "Der Mann" has very good big white bread, it´s not cheap anymore, it is € 3,35 and we need one daily. But it comes at least a bit near to our tastes. 

 

[soulpope]

On 2/18/2023 at 12:25 PM, optatio said:

 

I'm amused to read about "Bratkartoffeln" here! In November 1992 Marion Brown and I visited "Mutter Jütte" (Mother Jütte) in Bremke, an old inn in a village near Göttingen, famous for fried potatoes!

 

Marion wrote in the guest book: ""THANKS FOR THE BEST 'FRIED' POTATOES IN THE WORLD: BREMKE!" Marion Brown Jan 24, 1992 Mutter Jütte"

I visited "Mutter Jütte" for the first time in November 1960. A 'must' for Göttingen students to hike through mud and snow in winter to eat "Bratkartoffeln" with "Grünkohl" (curly kale) and 'Bregenwurst' (German sausage made from brains). Too bad the inn was closed last year...

Nice memories ....