Munich

There are two things that a man must posses in order for me to give him a second look: A supple vegetable garden. And a pressure cooker for canning.

We recently possessed the pressure cooker via amazon.com. This months project was sauerkraut. Grandma Betty gave us a recipe for sour kraut. It was something like: A big ceramic jar, a bunch of salt, and 60 lbs of cabbage- let sit (in your laundry room) for 2 weeks. But then she called right back to say she couldn't remember if it was 6 lbs of cabbage or 60?!? Somewhat significant.

This was followed by a frantic call by Marvin telling us to scrape any mold that appears off the top but NOT to drain the juice. So Rob shreds the cabbage with a miniature guillotine in my living room while we watch keeping up with the Kardashians. He lets it ferment in my laundry room.

Yesterday I return home from a walk with my friend- I was gone close to 2 hours. Rob complained that Chase cried "almost the whole time." Hmmm. Yet somehow he managed to fill, seal, and complete 24 jars of this filth in my kitchen. It still reeks.