What This Week Ate We?

Time for another episode of What This Week Ate We? More tahinli piliç.



Another pumpkin risotto.

Proof of it being sunny in November in Saarbrücken!



A healthy portion of cheese and potatoes in the form of reblochonade.



And, finally, some veal liver.

Risotto and Pasta

Not only is it moules season, it's also Kürbis season. Above, a variant of our usual risotto with squash: lemon zest and juice instead of pancetta. Almost feels like it is summer again!



We also ate the butternut squash with courgette in a pasta with orange juice (very good but somehow not pictured). In between we ate wonderfully juicy pieces of bacon in this pasta carbonara.

Huzzah!

Because of the many pictures of our holiday, we are badly behind in posting our recent foodz. Here is the dinner Adrie (half of poppamomma) treated us to, to celebrate her 65th birthday. (Ellen already blogged about this long ago. You can find her take here.)

The amuse consisted of champagne in a glass with lipstick and...







... and triplet of fish.

The second course was more fish:

Tomato soup:



Then a little more fish on a bed of risotto:



Sadly I forgot to take a picture of the oude jenever that was served right before the main course consisting of veal:



And dessert:

Pumpkin Risotto

As we only used half of the mystery ingredient earlier, we had plenty left over to make a risotto.

A Little Behind in Posting

Anke made a wonderful pasta with fava beans today:



Earlier this week we had another quiche:



And finally, in honor of the extension of the tax cuts: Mush from the Wimp.

More Risotto and Strudel

Pumpkin Risotto

Also, we signed our lease today. We will move in a little more than two weeks from now.

Kurbis-risotto in Berlin

Not as good as at home.

Risotto

Rissotto with squash and home smoked bacon instead of pancetta.

Before and after...

... the killing of small defenseless animals. In our defense, they were really small, not like a cow or something. Also, they were boiled in wine, which doesn't seem the worst way to go (I think cows usually get an iron stick up their arse, and get electrocuted --- we seem civilized in comparison, I would dare say).

Another trifecta

We tried to be careful about our food-wine pairing again, and paired the Italian veal liver with risotto and spinach with ... a nice Chianti.

Lesson 1 in food-wine pairing is to pair food from a certain region with wine from that region, and we have clearly not really progressed far into our food-wine pairing adventures.

Risotto - Anke's original

Well, kinda anyways. The recipe was suggested to Anke by a man who hit on her when she was buying pancetta. We think the recipe still lacks some je-ne-sais-quoi (terroir?).


The wine was expensive. We did not like it. So sad.

Risotto

It's fall and we had risotto with butternut squash.

Sunday Offal Day

Risotto

Frans's question of the day: Was this picture taken before or after regurgitating Gordon's risotto?

Trifecta

A colorful trifecta of veal's liver, butternut squash risotto and young spinach sauteed in some butter.