Fris & Zacht = fresh and soft!
A nice take on Grey tea, slightly crisp.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Rookworst met Stamppot
Tonight I cooked Rookworst met Stamppot for my Dutch Tandem-partner. It was really easy cooking :)
I used this recipe Zuurkoolstamppot (in Dutch)
So it's basically some potatoes, butter, milk, sauerkraut, salt and pepper.
I boiled the potatoes in one pot and the sauerkraut in another. Mashed the potatoes with some butter and milk, added the sauerkraut, added salt and pepper.
The boiling of the sauerkraut washed away all the distinctive flavour of it and I didn't have the bacon (spekjes) required at home, so the mash was slightly tasteless. Next time I think I'm just gonna fry the bacon and then add the sauerkraut so it gets warm and then mix this with the mash. The Rookworst, a smoked sausage, is one of my favorite sausages, I love the smokiness of it!
I used this recipe Zuurkoolstamppot (in Dutch)
So it's basically some potatoes, butter, milk, sauerkraut, salt and pepper.
I boiled the potatoes in one pot and the sauerkraut in another. Mashed the potatoes with some butter and milk, added the sauerkraut, added salt and pepper.
The boiling of the sauerkraut washed away all the distinctive flavour of it and I didn't have the bacon (spekjes) required at home, so the mash was slightly tasteless. Next time I think I'm just gonna fry the bacon and then add the sauerkraut so it gets warm and then mix this with the mash. The Rookworst, a smoked sausage, is one of my favorite sausages, I love the smokiness of it!
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Nasi goreng in February
Tonight's dinner was nasi goreng, with cucumber/carrot salad and spring rolls, really filling and I got lunch for tomorrow.
Nasi goreng, February version
left-over rice
1 spring onion
1 cup cashew nuts
1 egg, beaten
sambal oelek
ketjap manis
salt
Dry-roast the nuts. Add some oil to your wok or pan. Add a large or a small spoon of sambal.
Stir it around for a few seconds. Add the rice. Fry it for some time, breaking up the rice as you go, add the onion and the nuts, stir it around. Add some salt. Add some ketjap manis. Add the egg and keep stiring until the egg is cooked.
For the cucumber/carrot salad, I used a recipe in this wonderful book: Kina - Matens rike by Linlin
Cucumber/carrot salad
1 carrot
1 small piece of cucumber
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tespoon sugar
2 teaspoon dark rice vinegar
2 teaspoons sesame oil
1/4 chicken stock cube
Slice the carrot thinly with for instance a potato peeler. Bring some water to the boil, when boiling add the carrot, bring it to the boil. In the mean time, slice the cucumber. Drain the carrot after the water has started to boil again. Rinse the carrot slices under cold water. Mix the vinegar, sesame oil, salt, sugar and chicken stock cube with the cucumber and carrot.
I bought the spring rolls at the supermarket.
NOTES
I always try to cook more rice than I need, because then I'll get rice to the leftover next day for lunch and I'll get rice enought to make some kind of fried rice for dinner.
I think a smaller spoon of sambal is enough, note to self, if you start coughing while frying up the sambal - you've probably put in to much ;)
However, the heat from the sambal was balanced out by the cucumber/carrot salad, but I don't think you really need the chicken stock cube, it doesn't really add anything.
Where things were bought:
Sambal (from Holland of course :P) 370 g, 20 kr, dark rice vinegar 500 ml, 24 kr - Oriental Supermarket
Ketjap manis, 250 ml, 26 kr - East Trading Wang
Nasi goreng, February version
left-over rice
1 spring onion
1 cup cashew nuts
1 egg, beaten
sambal oelek
ketjap manis
salt
Dry-roast the nuts. Add some oil to your wok or pan. Add a large or a small spoon of sambal.
Stir it around for a few seconds. Add the rice. Fry it for some time, breaking up the rice as you go, add the onion and the nuts, stir it around. Add some salt. Add some ketjap manis. Add the egg and keep stiring until the egg is cooked.
For the cucumber/carrot salad, I used a recipe in this wonderful book: Kina - Matens rike by Linlin
Cucumber/carrot salad
1 carrot
1 small piece of cucumber
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tespoon sugar
2 teaspoon dark rice vinegar
2 teaspoons sesame oil
1/4 chicken stock cube
Slice the carrot thinly with for instance a potato peeler. Bring some water to the boil, when boiling add the carrot, bring it to the boil. In the mean time, slice the cucumber. Drain the carrot after the water has started to boil again. Rinse the carrot slices under cold water. Mix the vinegar, sesame oil, salt, sugar and chicken stock cube with the cucumber and carrot.
I bought the spring rolls at the supermarket.
NOTES
I always try to cook more rice than I need, because then I'll get rice to the leftover next day for lunch and I'll get rice enought to make some kind of fried rice for dinner.
I think a smaller spoon of sambal is enough, note to self, if you start coughing while frying up the sambal - you've probably put in to much ;)
However, the heat from the sambal was balanced out by the cucumber/carrot salad, but I don't think you really need the chicken stock cube, it doesn't really add anything.
Where things were bought:
Sambal (from Holland of course :P) 370 g, 20 kr, dark rice vinegar 500 ml, 24 kr - Oriental Supermarket
Ketjap manis, 250 ml, 26 kr - East Trading Wang
Pickwick Golden Batavia
I love this tea. It has such a nice well-rounded flavour that sneaks up on you. I leave the bag in all the time for more flavour, which I think goes for all teabag tea, it needs a long time in the cup to give maximum flavour.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Matdax - well worth the journey
I did my grocery shopping again at Matdax in Hökarängen, about 30 min away with the metro from my house. I bought 23 items for 381 kronor, which for Stockholm has to be considered cheap. I have to confess that I absolutely love watching Extreme Couponing on TLC and I try to do some couponing here in a small scale. This week they have 2 bottles of TRESemmé shampoo/conditioner for 50 kronor, 900 grams of chicken breast for 30 kr, 800 grams of mini springrolls for 15 kr, 800 grams of pangasius for 25 kr. My freezer is now filled :D
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
Catch of February
Cheese, matze, tea, sausage - everything I need to keep the second-home sickness away ^^
Tried roti a few days ago in Holland
Roti is a Surinamese dish with chicken that you eat with a sort of pancake/bread.
And Palm is the best beer in the world, at least according to the boyfriend ;)
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