German Jamie Olivers

Pork, vegetable and mashed potatoes and pudding. Typical German cuisine in an American school. Can that work well?

Before we could find out, we were introduced to the Nokomis Hight-School kitchens by Mrs. Williams' Food classes. We were shown where everything important is so that everything goes smoothly. However, I always missed a pan for the meat, which I always had to search for. Angelina and Laura then gave a presentation before each cooking session about typical German specialties. That should already whet the appetite for super German cuisine.

But "first-things-first." On Friday, March 23rd, we transformed into star chefs. 10 German students in a kitchen to cook for the so-called "Food" class. Pork medallions with mixed vegetables, mashed potatoes and pudding. Mrs. Hinz and Mrs. Teutloff had doubts at first. Which I believe were justified doubts, as most of us had never cooked before. And I don't mean quickly throwing a package of pasta into water and then waiting. No, this cooking action was already a bit more demanding, especially because there was more to cook than expected. An unexpected tomato soup put a big dent in our well-planned calculation. Of course, this raised the expectations, but the tomato soup group and everyone else more than met them.

We cooked three times for three groups. The first group forgot that they had a "Food Demo," so they did NOT come hungry to our 5-star menu. But that was probably even good, as we didn't yet know how to cook everything best. For example, the meat was already very strongly seasoned. At first, it doesn't seem like a big problem, but no one could have guessed that the butter we used as fat was also heavily salted. So the end result was very heavily seasoned pork. We shrugged off this not-so-good result and then moved on to the second round.

We got better each time. Even though the Americans thought it was "too healthy," Mrs. Hinz encouraged us and said, "Taste buds have to be trained." Where she's right, she's right, although with this oily and greasy food, the American taste buds should have been dead for a long time.

"The meat and potatoes were super yummy." Oh yes, I can only agree. I don't know how and why, but Hannes is a true mashed potato king. And the meat? Well, Felix and I, Max, had to get into it first, but then we had meat that even Mrs. Hinz, a vegan, would have tried. No, okay, she probably wouldn't have, but the meat was very popular. After we had cooked three times, it was time to clean up. Put away kitchen utensils, wash dishes, and of course, eat leftovers.

In conclusion, we can say that we all had a lot of fun and for some, it was even the funniest cooking of their lives. With this, White-Max says goodbye from the blog for Friday, March 23rd and hands over to Bully-Hinz.

PS: I wrote this blog with an American laptop, hence the "spelling mistakes."

Max Wilhelm