Frühstück!

So, everyone, a question: what do you do with fish?

There's a good-sized flea market near my place every Wednesday and Saturday and they sell lots of good-looking fish. Today, there was even a tub full of live eel! I do live pretty directly on the Baltic, I guess. Anyway, I was looking at all this fish and realized that I do not even know the first place to start with fish. Catching, buying, fillet-ing, cooking, any of that. I pretty much only know how to eat fish.

Basically, what am I supposed to look for? How does one go about buying fish as though one knows what one is doing at a German farmer's market? What fish do I buy? What can I do with fish after I buy it? How soon do I have to cook it? Why don't I still have people cooking for me like on boats and in college?

Other than my fish quandries, the farmer's market was a good time. For about ten euro, I came out with kiwis, oranges, tomatoes, brötchen, a pastry for breakfast and a chai latte. Overall, not a bad haul.

I have also decided in the past few days that Germans do breakfast correctly, Americans do not. When I get back to America, you will all be introduced to a proper German breakfast/brunch. Technically, it's brunch, but at the hour I wake up when left to my own devices, it's breakfast. A heaping basket full of brötchen (crispy little German rolls=), all sorts of varied sliced meats and cheeses, nutella, butter, coffee, orange juice, (okay, only sometimes) champagne, amazing varieties of things to spread on your brötchen. Oh, I wish I woke up in time to make myself a proper breakfast feast more often.

Now, I am headed to IKEA. Musings on breakfast aside, I feel like I need to check it out. Not that I'll buy anything, except maybe a lamp or a thermos, but at least I'll figure out where on earth it is. More on my inability to find IKEA later. Hopefully, after I've found IKEA.