The Food We Miss

For those who don't know, I lived in Germany for seven years, the formative ones, to be precise.  All of middle and high school.  There is an enormous amount of amazing things that I miss from living in Europe, from the people to the trips.  One thing that I miss more than anything, though, is by far the food.  It makes me feel like a bit of a fatty to say, but it truly is the one thing I miss most.  Since I've been in San Antonio, I've tried to find good quality German food that I remember so fondly now.  I did have some luck with a place near my first apartment here.  Decent, not great.

Enter a breakfast eatery.  An awesome one, at that.  Just about the best pancakes I've ever had at a restaurant.   Magnolia Pancake Haus.  First thing one notices?  HAUS!!!!  Yes, go German spelling!!!! No dinner fare, however.  But delicious breakfast and lunch.  Recently they opened a new location closer to home and applied for a beer service license..... intriguing...... Long story short is they open up Wed-Fri for a Bier Haus Dinner menu.... OMFG YES!  I think, if the dinners are even half as good as the breakfast and lunch, we're golden.  At long last, the fiancee and I head over this past Friday.

Start the night off right, the Hefe.... with napkin wing-like things.

Mmmmm appetizer.  Hand rolled Bavarian style pretzels.  The spicy honey mustard was amazing too!

OMG ginormous schnitzel!!!!  With the awesome Jager sauce.  Not the drink, the sauteed kind.  Also potato salad and red cabbage with bacon.  Oooooo the bacon.  And some pumpernickel bread.  Mmmm.

The fiancee's noms.  German?  No, not really, Ruben sandwich with home-made kettle chips.  Awesome.  Oh and pickle.  Yay pickle

And an amazing surprise of deliciousness underneath the schnitzel.  Spaetzle!!!    The awesome non-standard sized pasta pieces with just enough butter.  OMG so good.  So incredible.

The big awesome thing I've missed, and at least a taste of it here in my new home.  Thank you, Haus!!  Bye until next time!