Everyone is always so enthusiastic about all the work the italian and frensh grandmas spent in the kitchen. That made me think about the amount of work, that's done in the kitchen to prepare a festive weekend meal for the family. I chose the cooked potatoes because thr rest of the components of this meal were still enough work to be done before lunch. The sauerbraten is often served along with 'Rotkohl' ( red cabbage), applesauce and potatodumplings or just cooked potatoes. I chose raisins and sugar beet molasses, because those ingredients are very traditional and they perfectly fit the cuisine of my region. People use different kinds of sweeteners, such as sugar beet molasses, different kinds of jellies and jams, sugar, honey, raisins, dried fruit (mainly dried plums) or even different kinds of gingerbread such as 'Aachener Printen' (a very hard kind of gingerbread which is even often vegan) or 'Soßenkuchen' (means gravy cake, a kind of dry gingerbread from eastern germany, which is just made to use in gravys and sauces). The gravy has to be sweetened, because is based one vinegar, which has even concentrated after baking and tends to be very sour. Then the marinade is strained and the gravy is, as always, prepared out of the remaining liquid. If they don't have to see the farmers in africa, who grow their tobbaco, if they've never met the poor workers in central ameica who harvest their cocoa, if they've never seen all the cows, chicken and pigs, how they threat them and how they slather them in a industrialized way, they just don't care, because their dog and cat and their horse is fine a the farmer around the corner gets paid enough to have a good life.īut let's come back to the preparation of the roast.Īfter marinating, the roast is fried and then baked along with the marinade until it is done. People just care for the persons and animals of know identity. In my opionion as someone who has studied philosophy, which was also one of the main reasons, why a became a vegan, that sometihng that's called 'Mitleidsethik' in german (something like mercy ethics, I don't know the real scientific term for that). It's always like 'Uhhh, horesemeat, it's so digusting, I could never eat a horse but hey, I like my ground beef so much much, as I doesn't look at me. I also always wondered why the people today hate horsemeat or the meat of dogs and cats, like some asian cultures like to eat and enjoy their beef pork and chicken without even thinking about the way those animals are threated. It varies from beef (which is the most popular way) to horsemeat and even pork, but pork is very unusual. The raw roast is marinated for 4-2 days depending on which kind of meat people use. The spice mix normaly includes pepper, bay leavs, cloves, mustard seeds, and allspices.Įverything I had in my pantry was pepper, mustard seeds and bay leaves but I think this was still fine. It's called 'Sauerbraten' (sour roast) and it's a roast, that's marinated in a mixture of vinegar, wine, chopped vegetables (Suppengrün) and a mix of different whole spices.

Vegan sauerbraten