Dish of the day, serves 4 people:
- 600 g noodles
- 1 celery (= Stangensellerie, not Celeriac = Knollensellerie)
- 2 onions
- 700 g minced pork (probably works with minced beef, too)
- 600 g crème fraîche
- 500 g spinach, deep-frozen creamed spinach
- 400 g lentils (drained net weight is 260 g)
It's a variant of one of my classic pasta sauces; the classic sauce is minced meat with cream and spinach. The upgrade here is the celery. It's knackig! It's curly!
Start by preparing the classic sauce. Fry onions with the minced meat. When both are well-done, extinguish them with the cream. Add spinach. Add lentils. Let this cook for as long as it likes. Stir occasionally. Rule of thumb with every pasta sauce: The sauce shall wait for the pasta, not the other way around.
Cut the celery into small curly pieces. Insert them into the sauce when you like: Either early, which makes them blend in well, or later, which keeps them knackig, but they'll run the entire show themselves. The bush (= the leaves of the celery) tastes well, cut it and put it in, too. Toss away only the wooden parts near the bottom.
After dinner, we played 2-color
Igel Ärgern, see
image: back of box. Then we played 6-color Igel Ärgern with:
- Both players run 3 colors each. You win as soon as one of your colors wins, i.e., as soon as you have 3 out of 4 same-colored hedgehogs in the goal.
- We added the doping rule: First hedgehog to reach the goal gets disqualified for blatant doping. Its color can still win if all 3 remaining hedgehogs reach the goal.
At first, with 24 hedgehogs in the running, this seemed to take ages, but it produced a close endgame with hard decisions.
Then we played
Sneak heads-up, but we added geoo's beer-and-pretzels rule of Kontra. When you challenge a sneak, you may announce Kontra to make all revealed cards score 2 points instead of 1 point. Against a Kontra, the sneaker may reveal as usual, or he may fold to lose his cards unrevealed.
-- Simon
