Food
Us, having breakfast? (003)
Jan 3rd
Breakfast is pretty much unheard of in this small family of mine. My husband’s idea of a good hearty meal is dinner time! Yep, both my husband and I are two bloated whales because of this practise. I have tried to convince him to eat breakfast but noooo, he’s just not the type. Would you believe if I tell you that we sit down for breakfast such as this usually on the 2nd day of each new year?! But since we had too much to eat on the eve of Jan. 1 , we had to skip Jan. 2nd breakfast. But this morning it happened, lol! Oh yeah, we also sit down for breakfast during vacations! I don’t know why but that’s the only time you’ll see my husband eating breakfast. What about me? Now I’m just like him, I skip breakfast because it’s just not fun eating alone. 
On other note, I am going to attempt to upload at least a-photo-day and file them under ‘Project 2010′ . It’s the 3rd day so…wish me luck! I hope to make it on the last day of 2010! 
Spiced red cabbage
Dec 29th
A side dish I made on Christmas eve dinner-for-two. It was my very first time to make it and if you just allow me to say it, it was good. “Erg lekker! echt nederlandse rodekool! je mag hetI shall be vaak koken, lieverd” ( really good! this is a real dutch red cabbage! you should make this often, sweetheart – my husband.)
Well I’ll be posting the recipe on my foodblog soon.. only I am trying to fill the ‘Food’ category on this blog (lost almost all of them due to my ex-webhost .)
Adobo, my favorite!
Nov 5th
In the old days, our elders prepare this viand simple and straighforward. Chicken, soya sauce, vinegar, garlic, dried laurel leaves, pepper and salt, slowly simmered and viola! Fantastic adobo!
Today, because many cooks have different imagination, the adobo has ‘evolved’. Just like in this photo. This I learned from a colleague I used to work with back in Thailand. She would add boiled eggs and caramelized onion rings, ‘wow’ I said to myself, this was also nice!
But I pushed it a little bit as I used ketchap manis (sweet soya sauce) to make mine. Heaven!
Crunchy Chicken skin
Nov 2nd
Whenever I’m in Thailand, this is one of my favorite muchies….crispy chicken skin! Normally sold in the streets of Thailand. And usually women sell them. Pushing their cart with a wok filled with cooking oil, they actually fry these while walking the streets. Sometimes they have spicy vegetables salad to accompany the chicken. And yes, even rice!
But during Thailand vacation, I always reserve rice during dinner time. But this shicken skin, I’d never skip!
mask
Dec 15th
Last night, my husband and I ventured the cold temperature to go to the city for this years Christmas Market. Unfortunately we were left disappointed as our night started out with a very bad dinner in a Mediterranean grill restaurant with a turtle pacing service. For our starter we had to wait 45 minutes and when it finally came, I almost wept because it was pure garbage (I’m sorry, but this is a rant entry, have I warned you already?)
It says in the menu that for Euro11,00 (E1 =$1,66 as of this writing) you’ll get big gambas (shrimps) grilled in olive oil and special sauce. After 45 minutes it finally arrived , and on my dish, I got around 6 tiny pieces (different sizes) of shrimps in tomato sauce and a dab of olive oil. And I’ve also tasted soap in the sauce. Not a tiny squeek from me and my husband. Then another 45 minutes passed by, finally my mix-meat-grill in a skewer arrived and lo and behold, everything was raw! the tiny beef piece was bad smelling and bloody, a piece of pork was bloody (about 2 pieces of each) and loads of red onion pieces in between. This was for Euro 21,00.
My husband and I paid Euro50,00 for a horrible dinner ..already from this amount, my skewer was deducted when the waitress saw I hardly touched it, fortunately she was ashamed of what has happened and offered to deduct the price…hah! if that happened in the US I think she’d lose her head from the client’s bite! But since my husband is the calm type, never will complain…simply paid the waitress and even wished her a pleasant evening.
So can you imagine how expensive to have a lousy dinner in this part of the world.
the restaurant was masked from the outside..it has a lovely window that entices people walking pass it…but inside…
oh by the way, the market was empty
Saffron Prawn Risotto
Aug 22nd
My meal last night, risotto with saffron topped with prawns. A Gordon Ramsay recipe.
for the recipe, you can find it HERE
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