Apologies for Lightposting

We still eat some of the time --- pictured above is A's "kinderfeestje" birthday meal spaghetti bolognese --- but we are mostly focused on moving.

It's going well, though. Yesterday the movers came and took the stuff that we are shipping. Everything was carried down by only one person, who turned out to be 68 years old!

Today most large items that we sold will be picked up. Tomorrow we will be cleaning the apartment.

Pasta Pasta

Carbonara for lunch...



... and bolognese for dinner.

 (Okay, so it was not the same day. Bite me.)

Spatchcock Chicken

Too much Dijon made this a very spicy bird!

Pasta and Pinenuts

Spaghetti Carbonara

A treat every single time.

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!

Cooked Cream (Panna Cotta)

It was weekend, time for breakfast.



Maybe better when served as dessert, but very tasty in either case: panna cotta with coffee granita. We just have to learn how to get these from their mold in one piece.

Tomato, Basil and Mozzarella Quiche

Now in full color!

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.

Breakfast

Brie and pear. Yum.

Salmon, Potatoes and Leeks

In short: dinner.

So Simple

... but sure to put a smile on my face: spaghetti diavola.

Sorry

No updates from the US. In Germany, there was flamiche and the usual roasted red peppers.

Spaghetti Carbonara

Wishing we had a garden and a smoker again!

Cheese Souffle

Breakfast!

We Interrupt this Program

... for some wonderful wintry homemade foodz. Above, boudin blanc and boudin noir, the latter fried in a little duck fat, sprinkled with some butter, lemon juice and parsley --- awesome! Below, the well known and loved meatfest known to the locals as choucroute.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

See you next year!

Simple Foodz

... or the usual.

Great Homemade Foodz

The French supermarket still absolutely amazes me. We got the most wonderful ingredients, mostly originating from the Alsace, and made this great Chicken Normandy.



We paired it with the cider from Normandy, that was also used in the sauce.

Healthy

After a healthy bike ride admiring the wild life of Saarland...

(what kind of strange ducks are these?)

(pigeon hole principle!)



... I ate no pork, but only veggies.