Day 1: Hearty Peasant Fare (Northern Europe)
Breakfast:
– Warm oat porridge with honey and crushed hazelnuts
– Herbal tea (nettle or mint)
Lunch:
– Rye bread with leek and sorrel soup
– Pickled mushrooms
– Bilberries (fresh or dried)
Dinner:
– Roast pork shoulder with barley and cabbage mash
– Fermented beet and onion slaw
– Elderberry cordial (diluted with water)
Day 2: Forest & Field (Central Europe)
Breakfast:
– Chestnut flour flatbread with wild berry jam
– Chamomile tea
Lunch:
– Lentil stew with kale and onions
– Wild greens salad with arugula and vinegar
Dinner:
– Smoked trout with roasted parsnips and garlic
– Blackcurrant mead
Day 3: Mediterranean Coastline
Breakfast:
– Barley biscuits with grape preserves
– Warm herbal infusion (thyme and rosemary)
Lunch:
– Chickpea (or pea) mash with olive oil, arugula, and chestnut crackers
– Grilled leeks in vinegar
Dinner:
– Baked rabbit with rosemary, garlic, and wild plums
– Red wine (diluted for daily drinking)
Day 4: Woodland Winter Meal
Breakfast:
– Boiled cracked rye with honey and dried cherries
– Hot water steeped with sage
Lunch:
– Onion and cabbage pie in barley crust
– Hazelnuts and dried sorrel leaves
Dinner:
– Venison stew with mushrooms, nettles, and turnips
– Warm elderberry wine
Day 5: Rustic Farm Table
Breakfast:
– Baked apple (crabapple) with chestnut meal and honey
– Oat gruel
Lunch:
– Thick lentil and garlic soup with rye bread
– Pickled bilberries
Dinner:
– Grilled pork sausage with sautéed kale and pearl barley
– Fermented berry drink
Day 6: Monastic Simple Living (Inspired by medieval abbeys)
Breakfast:
– Warm milked oats (from deer or boar if available, otherwise water)
– Berry jam on barley flatbread
Lunch:
– Wild greens and chickpea potage
– Boiled eggs (from wildfowl or geese, if domesticated)
– Herbal tea (meadow herbs)
Dinner:
– Roasted carp or eel with leeks and wild garlic
– Small cup of spiced honey wine
Day 7: Celebration Feast (Harvest Festival style)
Breakfast:
– Sweet chestnut cakes with bilberry sauce
– Warm apple cider
Lunch:
– Cabbage and pea stew with smoked pork belly
– Wild mushroom pastries
Dinner:
– Whole roast boar (or piglet) with currant glaze
– Roasted onions, carrots, and hazelnuts
– Mead and grape wine
>no bratwurst, schnitzel, spatzle, pretzel, beer, strudels, or black forest cake
verboten
>>21422575 (OP)It's interesting...although I can't eat legumes.
The dinners are the best, would definitely try all of them.
>>21422576What is even central European about it? Should be roast, sausage, cabbage, potatoes, dumplings, rye bread and beer.
>>21422575 (OP)Have you ever been to Europe, austrlianon?
>>21422575 (OP)>– Roast pork shoulderShould be game like boar or moose.
>>21424488I live in the UK so yeah.
>>21422575 (OP)It's a fantasy take. If this were true to life most of the breakfasts would be coffee and a smoke.
>>21425772Very good point. Holstein cows first came from Germany and the Netherlands, so any culinary tour without a nice glass of milk is incomplete.