Korean Food

Another thing we were looking very much forward to in Beijing: our local Korean restaurant.



It did not disappoint at all!

These are just a few of the many, many, many dishes we had for lunch.

Escoffier: Home from All Markets

I made Escoffier's goulash, and learned that a teaspoon of paprika goes a long way! The shit load of red cabbage I made a little while ago came in handy too!

Economizing

To alleviate the problem of the big spending wife, and also because our stove is still broken which means that I am not so motivated to go to France to go grocery shopping, I am eating whatever I can still find in the cupboards. I was going for the usual combo of meat, potatoes and vegetables.

I found duck confit in the cupboards, and, as I thought we ran out of vegetables, decided that one piece was going to be the meat, and the other the vegetables. The next day I realized that we also still had a red cabbage.



It being slightly the wrong season for red cabbage, I decided to eat on the balcony, where it was still a bit chilly.

Hot and Sour Cabbage

I really like this dish with Sichuan peppers.



Also, some nice pork.

Fleischwolf!

We were feeling a little adventurous this weekend, so we got out the brand spanking new Fleischwolf to make some serious Chinese food. We made lion's head meatballs, which turned out to be a little firmer and heavier than what we we remembered, but the taste was divine.



We also made something we did not have before, stuffed eggplant.



Chinese food is awesome!

Chinese

The new cookbook is working out very well. The cabbage above was really good (and easy), and this pork was not too shabby either:

Saying goodbye to winter

Groceries --- Part the Second

More grocery shopping in France today, which resulted in this wonderful lunch:



For dinner we went with a fall theme. Red cabbage...



... and barbecued boudin noir with apples



... and some mashed potatoes.



A paired this with a Gigondas, that worked really well with the food, even though on its own it was a little flat.

Private restaurant

Yesterday, Amanda took us to a private restaurant near Nan luo gu xiang. There were many more great tasting and looking dishes, but it was too dark to take even reasonable pictures. Pictured above is the pork knuckle with ginseng.



These are eel bones, which taste surprisingly good. We also had the meat of the eel in a separate dish.



Melon. We further had: fruits, sparrow stomachs, red cabbage, lotus root, soup with bamboo fungus stuffed with fish, frog (good for knees), deer in cucumber, more fruits and vegetables, served on a stick, and finally eggplant noodles.

Ethiopian cabbage and...

... pancakes, hmmm.... pancakes.