CJ Sausages

Among korean food manufacturers CJ is my favorite. This comes on the one hand from the high quality, but more importantly from the wide range of products. CJ focuses more on the high price segment in combination with a bit more international stuff. Worth a try are especially the CJ Udon noodles, as well as the CJ curries (which are by the way excellent).

It must be already one or two years since CJ started its 'european series' line of sausages. Their first was a normal 'wiener', very authentic in taste, but maybe a bit less juicy then the ones you would get in europe / germany. Now we saw two new additions to this product line: the 'Regensburger Frank' and 'Herb Flavored Frank'.

Call me ignorant but i never heard of Regensbugrer sausages... and i doubt that there exists something like a Regensburger Frank(furter) sausage ^^. A bit of internet search revealed that i am indeed ignorant ^^. The original Regensburerg sausage is a thick sausage intended for cooking (in germany known as knacker). Here the 'Regensburger frank' was thin, a bit short well salted and with a nice meat taste. Also positive was that the sausage had some bite. Cooking fitted the sausage well but frying destroyed the smoke taste. 

I guess in germany this one would be sold as wiener. 

After i saw green, curry and tea flavored sausages in korea im always a bit skeptical when seeing something claiming its herb flavored... however i was positively surpirsed about this 'Herb Flavored Frank'. ITS A REAL SAUSAGE!!! meaty, salty enough, smoked, well spiced, this sausage is just good. The herb taste they claim is nothing special, it's just majoran (or might be oregano - difficult to differentiate, but classically it would be majoran). Which you would expect in every good sausage ^^. This sausage could be fried but cooking brought the taste out better. Also the skin didn't brown well when fried. 

This one you could be classified in germany maybe as well spiced bockwurst.

All in all, both sausages are quite nice but the 'Herb Flavored Frank' is a real treat. Worth trying. 

Pizza at E-MART

Recently we found imported, frozen pizza at E-mart. I have to confess that i miss the frozen pizza available in germany, and these were from Italy and Australia respectively, therefore we gave them a try.

To put it in a nutshell: all 3 were quite decent. Reasonably priced and tasty. 

Pizza Prosciutto: Italian style crust with much ham and mushrooms and sufficient cheese but unfortunately not enough tomato sauce makes this pizza well eatable but a bit dry. 

Something what i personally didn't liked so much was the ham. It hat a nutty, pungent aroma like you would expect from an air dried parma ham. Some people like this, but i am not among them. 

Pesto Pizza: Same brand and therefore same crust as the prosciutto pizza. More (and therefore enough) tomato sauce, combined with large pieces of mozzarella and some fresh tomatoes. Special here was a substance which was supposed to be Pesto Verde.  It tastes interesting but the pizza could well do without.  

Overall the pizza was the best among the three, large enough for one person, juicy, with a lot cheese. The only minus point was that the pizza was a bit too salty. 

Pizza Hawaii: Different brand then the two before. We ordered these pizza via home delivery and were quite surprised when this one came out at around 200g gram and mere 20cm diameter. The other pizzas were of 450gram and regular size. However the amount of toppings was quite ok. Here also a bit more tomato sauce would be appreciated. Pineapple pieces were numerous but a bit dry. The crust is not napoli style but was praised by my wife as the best among the three (seems to fit korean taste better than mine). Here again the ham had some nutty aroma which i don't really enjoy. 

Conclusion: All three pizzas were tasty. The Hawaiian pizza was for its price (around 5000 won) definitely to small (but compared to Pizza hut & Co still reasonably priced). The Prosciutto and Pesto Pizza are, with 450 gram, one complete meal and very reasonable priced at less than 6000won. The pesto pizza was the best among them: juicy, crispy with much cheese. I will buy this one again. 

p.s. the pizza was prepared in an oven. On the box they say you could also use a microwave, but i doubt that the result would be eatable.