Sauerkraut
Coleman stories transcend generations and even (occasionally) family. My buddy Mike took a 12 hour drive with three teenage girls last weekend to see the opening for a movie in a niche Sci-Fi genre. We were close to the end of the line, so they spent the night here. Mike's been writing a blog about cooking his way through a cookbook (a la Julie and Julia) and part of the evening was filled with him sharing some of his cooking conquests and failures. One of his recent exploits had been Reuben sandwiches totally from scratch (like he bought saltpeter to pickle the brisket). As it turns out, one of the ingredients of a Reuben sandwich is sauerkraut. Mike doesn't actually like kraut, but it was in the recipe, so he made it from scratch (twice) and made really tasty sandwiches (I understand). Never one to throw things out, he brought the leftovers (kraut, not cornedbeef) 300 miles to his good buddy Rob. You see, Mike has listened to me tell Coleman stories since our se