It's Laker Season!

The baseball season ended yesterday. It was a lot of fun and the Plotzers got exactly as far this year as last, and no further, but they were still a lot of fun to watch. Plot and Duck and Brother Two and Ben-Z got to see Manny's last great home run on Bobblehead Night, and there were lots of other exciting moments, so all in all it was a fantastic year.

Plot's brain checked out of the baseball season Monday night so yesterday he and Duck and Anneli and Geri went touring around in Sonoma and Plottie didn't need to watch the last blood-letting, a game that sounds like it wasn't worth watching.

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As promised, here is how Gerhild Tietz and Anneli Goetz make German Potato Salad and Wiener Schnitzel:

Potato Salad -- boiled potatoes, sliced very thinly, covered with vegetable broth and added to minced onions and herbs plus a very thinly sliced cucumber, then dressed with white wine vinegar and lots of pepper:





Schnitzel: Buy veal scallops at the Embarcadero meat market, that are already pounded thin but you ask them to pound them even thinner for you, then you wash them and season on both sides with salt and pepper, dip in flour, then beaten egg, then bread crumbs, then fry in more olive oil and butter than Plot would use in a month. YUM-O!








And of course you end up with pecan pie and ice cream. OF COURSE YOU DO!