Potato crusted cod

This recipe is from the German cooking book. Duncan and Brandon loved it. Actually, Benjamin ate it extremely well too. Tavio and I were not fans, but we're not fish fans either. Actually, I wasn't all that fond of the potato crusting. I liked it less than the fish. I'm not getting out the book to write it down, just writing what I did. Actually I remember the recipe. I'll write it down the way I remember it. I . There was a sauce as well that Brandon made, but I'm not including that. It had 2 german mustards which we didn't have so Brandon added lemon and probably other stuff. I preferred tartar sauce. Brandon says it gets 4 star. I of course would only give it 1, so I guess it can have 3


Ingredients

• 1 lb. 10 oz potatoes peeled and grated
• 1 egg
  
• salt, pepper, nutmeg
• 2 Tablespoons flour
  
• 4 4oz. cod fillets
• oil for frying
  

Directions

1. OK, I don't have my cookbook out, so this is what I remember. I shredded the potatoes using the food processor. They didn't look like the picture, so I threw them back in the food processor with the regular blade and chopped them to a pulp.
2. Squeeze out excess water from potatoes using a fine mesh strainer. (I didn't do a good enough job of this I think because I still got pools of liquid as I was cooking.
3. Mix the potatoes with the egg. Season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg.
4. Heat oil in skillet. Place flour on a plate. Season fish with salt and pepper. Dredge in flour. Cover with the potato mixture -patting on the fish so it sticks. Fry in hot oil. (Watch out. I splashed myself with hot oil more than once.)
   

German potato salad with sausage

This is yet another taste of home slow cooker meal. I forgot to take a picture. This having DH cook is making me forget to take pictures. It was made with sauerkraut, so I was pretty Leary of it, but it was delicious. It originally called for polish sausage. Brandon couldn't make German food using Polish sausage so we used Bratwurst. It was so good that I even had seconds.

Ingredients

• 8 bacon strips, diced
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 1 pound Bratwurst (we could have used a bit more for the amount of potatoes.)
• 2 pounds medium red potatoes, cut into chunks
• 1 can cream of potato soup
• 1 cup sauerkraut, rinsed and well drained
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/4 cup cider vinegar
• 1 Tablespoon sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground pepper

Directions

1. In a large skillet, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. Remove to paper towels. In the drippings saute onion for 1 minute. Add sausage; cook until lightly browned. Add potatoes; cook 2 minutes longer.
2. Drain; transfer sausage mixture to slow cooker. In a small bowl, combine the soup, sauerkraut, water, vinegar, sugar, salt and pepper. Pour over sausage mixture. Sprinkle with bacon.
3. Cover and cook on low for 6-7 hours or until potatoes are tender.