My Current Favorite Foodz

My current absolute favorite food is this spiced rabbit casserole from our Turkish cookbook by Ghillie Bhasan. Another discovery lately is bulghur wheat.



So combining the two most certainly makes me smile. I fried a carrot (cut julienne) for 10 minutes --- another thing that can make anyone smile. I think there should be a dessert just based on this --- it's delicious!

Anyway, we did not come up with it ourselves, it's actually based on a bulghur recipe by the Ghilster.



Yum-o.

Chengdu Food Market

More Yummy Bunny

Easter Bunny

We could not think of anything more appropriate for Easter than a nice bunny. Ghillie's tavşan yahnisi was perfect: lots of aromatic spices in a wonderful red wine sauce.

Escoffier showed his Turkish side, by recommending to add saffron and tomato fondue to a normal rice pilaw, and thus obtaining Riz à la Turque.

Rabbit Stew

This was advertised as a "Hauskaninchen", so we feel a bit sorry for whoever is missing their pet right now. As a consolation: he/she tasted really good!

And here is another picture of Saarbrücken. The sky was grey as usual, making it hard to come up with anything to photograph.

Groceries

We are delighted to show you some of our groceries (grosseries?) and grocery opportunities now that we live in Europe.

Yesterday:



Rabbit! From the supermarket! And it was even packed and everything!



It was advertised as "lapin entier", and that was not false advertising either: on top we can see the little bugger's liver, we dug up the lungs and heart from its chest, and even its tongue was still present!



This was the result: Rabbit in a sauce of mustard and cacao from our new cookbook "Creole". To be honest, a little disappointing --- I think this dish may actually work much better with just mustard and taragon, and no cacao.



The potatoes on the side were great as usual.

Today:



Yes, no meat! Just a 244 pound pumpkin for only 329.73 euros!



I did not see how I could take this with me on my bike, so I settled for a rainbow trout instead. After firing up the barbecue, this was the result:



As a side dish, we made some couscous with eggplant, yellow bell pepper, hazelnuts and herbs and spices, which turned out really well as well.

Quanjude

But no duck! Duck tongue in aspic does not count, of course.



Eggplant and other stuff (if I remember correctly pork and salt fish).



An evergreen: Tuna, salmon and wasabi mustard.



And finally some leg of rabbit, that was not too bad either.



Me likey Quanjude a lot nowadays.