Here's what you missed at our first Oktoberfest cooking workshop

 

This is Kayla Lammy, a University of Illinois grad student who is also my cooking partner and guest chef for our first ever "cooking workshop" and feast on Saturday, October 4, 2025. Our group chopped, grated, mixed, sauteed, boiled, baked, and grilled for 3 hours to prepare the ultimate German Oktoberfest banquet. Thanks to guest chef Kayla Lammy for developing the recipes and leading the workshop. Here's the final menu of what we put on our buffet table: 

• Kaltes Buffet (cold buffet): Black Forest ham, Braunscheiger (liver sausage), Landjaeger (smoked meat sticks), salami, Gebrannte Mandeln (candied almonds), Waffelröllchen (wafer rolls), Café Kranze (shortbread cookies), Kartoffelstäbchen (potato sticks)
• Homemade soft pretzels with Obatzda (beer cheese dip)
• German sausage platter with Kayla's venison bratwurst, weisswurst,
  knockwurst, sauerkraut, horseradish sauce, mustard, pickles, bread
• Spaetzle egg dumplings with caramelized onions
• Rotkohl (red cabbage) with bacon and apples
• Bayrischer Kartoffelsalat (German potato salad) with bacon, onion, mustard
• Apfelkuchen (apple cake)
• Pfirsichkuchen (peach cake)
• Bavarian coffee (peppermint schnapps, chocolate shavings)
• Selection of imported German beers

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