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It's been a while since we had some honest homemade foodz! We visited multiple supermarkets, finding fault with every single one, but eventually we had enough ingredients to at least make this simple pasta.



Also, we have housemates now. Pictured above is the sweet one: Neo.



The red cat is Weezer. He is a bit of a dick.

Here is the start of Anke's email to our landlords today:

Subject: an update from Neo, Weezer, Frans and Anke

Hi Bill and Linda,

We hope you had a good trip to Rome, and that you are having a great time!

Neo: I miss you very much, but the new humans are working out well. I
spend my time eating, sleeping, pooping, and being adorable and getting
lots of attention. So I am not much different from my usual self! The
new humans also made me play with a mouse on a piece of string, but that
was not really my thing. Bye now, I am off to have a wash!

Weezer: Unlike traitor Neo, I have bravely tried to defend the house
against these two intruders. At first, I thought they would surely leave
in a couple of hours, like they did last time. But no, they even had the
audacity to go up to your bedroom. You will be proud to learn that I
confronted them head on, and sunk my teeth into their legs.
Unfortunately, they still did not leave. Whenever I try to attack now,
they talk to me in a deep and loud voice. I have no idea what they are
saying, but I don't like it, so I now keep a low profile. They try to
curry favors with me, by playing with me, or giving me cat treats (oh, I
love those!), but I do my best to stay true to you, and keep my grumpy
demeanor.

Anke & Frans: [...]

[...]

You guys get the picture, we are having a blast!

Boiled Lamb

A bus trip of a few hours brought us to Langmusi, an interesting little village with a mix of Hui, nomadic people, Tibetan people and also some Han Chinese. Many of the little restaurants were owned by Hui, who are muslim. The main specialty: boiled lamb, pictured above. We had it twice, it is really good.



Here is A in our favorite Hui restaurant.



And this is a view of the village from the mountain.

Pasta Pasta

Carbonara for lunch...



... and bolognese for dinner.

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

Tomato, Basil and Mozzarella Quiche

Now in full color!

Spaghetti Bolognese

Day two of pasta week.

Turkish Breakfast

Not pictured, but also very good: baguette with Ellen's strawberry-rhubarb jam.

Improv Pasta

We wanted to use our balcony grown basil, so we improvised this pasta with tomatoes, blue cheese and hazelnuts. Yum.

Long Time No Jalfrezi

Another Trip, Another Quiche

Somehow we always seem to eat quiche when we go traveling. We ate this one with mache, the night before going to Berlin.

Veggies, Puff Pastry and Yarn

We made this recipe once more, since we can get such beautiful puff pastry in the French supermarket. We also found a beautiful and tasty heirloom tomato:



Finally a picture especially for Emmanuel:



To be continued.

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.

Tomato and Mozzarella Quiche

Goodbye China Tour

We're back home, ready to cancel bank accounts and pack our bags. Here are just a few pictures from our trip, to be precise from Xingcheng:









One of the reason we went back slightly prematurely, was the food. The food on the road was rather disappointing, even though these two dishes were not so bad:

Food for Flight

Again again?

Again again.

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.