Homemade foodz

After too much meat and drink this weekend, we decided to make our own dinner on Sunday:



Moroccan ratatouille (eggplant, peppers, courgette, beans, onion, garlic, tomato, cumin, turmeric and cinnamon) and fried potatoes (pictured in the background, even though they may have been even awesomer than the ratatoille).

Today, we did ate the leftover ratatouille, as well as leftover stew, as well as some freshly made fries.



Our life may suck at the moment, our food does not.

Operation Successfurrrrrrrrrrr

We successfurry bought some radishes today.



Sure, they are not a successfurrrrr as some people's radishes.

And neither are our photos as artistic.

But we enjoyed them nonetheless.



As we also enjoyed this stew.


Man, are we going to miss the tomatoes here... Being from the Netherlands, we know all about the Wasserbombe they are selling instead of tomatoes in Germany.

African Foodz

Since we will be faced with the challenge of making mashed potatoes soon, we decided to get a little easy practice first, and make some African food.

We used our friend Marcus Samuelsson's cookbook, but since we had not used that for one and a half years, we had forgotten that we should not follow his directions too closely... So the injera were completely messed up, the meat was too chewy and the mashed sweet potatoes slightly too wet.



Maybe we should go out and buy that packet of instant mashed potatoes now. As Emma pointed out, how else will we add delicious chicken-y flavor and fried onion bits?



In the mean time, courtesy of Starbucks, we are already preparing for the next non-holiday (Christmas) with this little espresso candle. So cute!

Long live Danny Wegman!

We had the choice of TWO types of organic kale for this recipe. Long live Danny for having a great supermarket!

Sharp!

Not really clear in this resolution, but this photo is way sharper than our usual photos.


Here's why -- we found out we have a tripod!

It does make you wonder ... Are we taking our food photography a bit too seriously to make up for other areas in our lives where we are less successful??

Pancakes!

... with Ethiopian beef "stew". We doubled the amount of spices --- not recommended; this is a great recipe (if you follow it).

Tea-roasted old veal and warm eggplant butternut squash salad

The recipe called for veal, and we do not discriminate on age.

We should though.

Thanksgiving

Obligatory turkey:

And as an added bonus:
Emma and b.t., BFF!

Ethiopian cabbage and...

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

Post #100!

It is post #100 again! This time the food for post #100 did work out very nicely, so we are very happy that blogger gave us a second chance (by counting a couple of drafts as posts).

As you know, Frans REALLY likes pancakes.
Pancakes (injera) with a very spicy Ethiopian beef stew. What more could one want for the 100th post?