For dinner tomorrow, we (I use the term somewhat loosely) will make Winter Root Vegetable soup. It is made of carrots, parsnips, potatoes, onions and sweet potatoes and kielbasa. Parsnips are plentiful and good here....as are potatoes and carrots and onions. Sweet potatoes have been a little more difficult to find. Kielbasa? We have looked all over for sausage...nothing familiar. We could find nothing like Jimmy Dean Sausage anywhere and kielbasa is non-existent. Believe me...this is a great soup, but that kielbasa is key to the rich flavor. And we are running out of time.
We found something that may be a stretch. It is polser...or Danish meat for hotdogs. So we have purchased six pounds of glorified Danish hotdogs and will cut them up and pretend like they are kielbasa. I'll let you know how this turns out. If it doesn't turn out too well, SK and I may be eating a lot of hot dogs in root vegetable stew.
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This soup sounds delicious! I think I want the recipe! I'm curious to see how it tastes with Danish hot dogs. :)
ReplyDeleteNot as good as with Italian sweet sausage, but not bad.
DeleteI am not in Denmark - but have never heard of kielbasa???? Sounds like it will be a wonderful stew anyway. You are getting SO creative. Someone needs to get you another cookie sheet!
ReplyDeleteA cookie sheet is my next purchase!
DeleteYes! Have you found a store where you can buy more cookie sheets? IKEA maybe? Have they crossed over the bridge to you?
ReplyDeleteIt's such a strange thing to consider that they don't have ground sausage! I'm adding that to my growing list of food items they don't carry in Denmark. Can't wait to hear how the "hot dog" stew turned out!
Yes...IKEA has crossed over the bridge. We visited there about a week and a half ago. It was so big, and it essentially a one-way trip through it. We had to retrace our steps a couple of times to go back to get something, and the only way out was through and then through a check-out line. We will soon be going back to get a few items, including a cookie sheet!
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