November 12, 2012

• Runzas

  German Immigrant food is seriously fucking cheap.  A head of cabbage was 44 cents!  I also got three pounds of ground beef, a bag of onions, and a bag of potatoes.

  Today is my Veteran's Day (observed) which means that I have the day off from work.  The kids were supposed to be at school, but one has the stomach flu and he is on the couch playing video games and the other had a headache and got a late start (I did get her to school).  So. Armistice Day.  And a recipe.  Runza is actually a restaurant here in Nebraska.  They sell these sandwiches and people who have lived here and had them pretty much love them.  My mom gets frozen ones to take to Oklahoma with her.  My high school friend who now lives in Michigan always wants a Runza when she visits.  They are incredibly simple food.  I couldn't believe there were so few ingredients.  But these taste just like a Runza Restaurant runza.  Technically a runza is just a German peasant food that the German homesteaders made when they came to Nebraska.  It's an empenada or calzone.  But it's German.  Here's the recipe:

  2 lb ground beef

  1 large onion, chopped

  salt and pepper

  1 medium head of cabbage, chopped

  2 batches of bread dough

  Saute the onion in oil.  Add hamburger and saute.  Season with salt and pepper.  Drain the grease.  Cover the meat with the chopped cabbage and cook for 45 minutes.

  Roll the dough into small rectangles and put the filling in it and roll like a burrito from Chipotle (tuck in sides and fold lengthwise).

  Bake 20-25 minutes.

  Then go plow a field or make a house out of sod.

  Happy Armistice Day!

   

   

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