It's been a while since I posted in this blog (I picspam a lot on DW & LJ;). Here's some food from last week's K-day; an yearly office outing with a LOT of food in between workshops and management presentations.

The bus took an hour longer than planned because of a traffic jam.

When we were finally close to our destination, this mowing machine blocked the way, poor busdriver.
But eventually we arrived, after 2,5 hours! Great reading time;-)

Lunch part 1: raisin bun with cheese, chiabatta with egg and cheese, carrotcake.

Lunch part 2: vanilla yoghurt with crumble and forrestberries plus another piece of carrotcake:)

Dinner appetizer: wrap with smoked chicken

Dinner main 1: braised beef with mashed potato and herbal crumble

Dinner main 2: beefburger (fresh from the bbq, so good)

Dinner encore: another portion of braised beef (didn't eat the asparagus)

Dinner main 3: vegetarian lasagna and garlic bread

Dessert 1: vanilla icecream with white chocolate and fresh strawberries

Dessert 2: Dessert 1: vanilla icecream with crumble and baked pineapple

Dessert encore: vanilla icecream with white chocolate, crumble and fresh strawberries

The end. (Bus back home took less than 1,5 hours, wahey empty freeway!)

Foodpost! Tried falafel for the first time last month and was not too impressed by the taste. Today I got the left over falafel balls from my freezer and I wanted to make them more interesting. So I combined them with string beans, fried some onions and garlic and presented them with home baked pancakes and ketchup...



Looks really nice, but the falafel balls were still a let down, very bland. Meh.

Last Sunday my mom's partner J. celebrated his 75th birthday with a fancy buffet brunch. Here's the food I gobbled up:


A slice of brown bread with fried egg (fried while you wait!) + a croquette + carpaccio (thinly sliced raw beef with parmezan cheese bits) + a small sesamy bagel with creamcheese and salmon + orange juice and milk:)


A small bowl of honey melon and Galia melon with ham + a breadroll with Brie. Oh and a couple of fries, that I had already eaten before I remembered to take a photo:)


A bit of icecreamcake, a slice of carrotcake, a profiterole (cream puff) with speculaas cream, two petit fours, two macarons, a thin slice of spekkoek (Indonesian layercake) and a tiny glass of pineapple mousse with advocaat (a Dutch eggnog with brandy; I only had a couple of spoons of the mousse, then handed the left over bit with the eggnog to my mom;)


One last petit four and a marshmallow dipped in the chocolate fountain:) The end.

Went on a daytrip to The Hague last weekend, to have a festive lunch with my sister in law G. and darling nephew R. at the Haagsche Snoephuys (Candyhouse:) I traveled back by train with my brother and R., who wanted to draw his own version of the Impala colouringpage I coloured for the Land of Art:)

On Friday I got a call from brotherdearest asking if he could come over for dinner on Saturday. Since he would also help me out with a couple of computer issues, he was more than welcome *grins* I decided it was a good opportunity to try a new dish. From a package of course, I'm not THAT adventurous, but still: new thing! I made mashed potato cupcakes \o/ Had to add eggs and milk to the powder provided and then put it in the oven on 200C for 20-25 minutes. What made it more complicated than simply following the instructions was that the recipe was for 8 cupcakes, but the illustrations had a tray for 6 cupcakes and my oven only had room for 7. The package also didn't explain how much batter to put in each cup, not warn about any possible rising. Scary stuff, kids. This is why I hardly ever bake, I get so frustrated by having to figure things out! Aaaaaaaaaanyway. I totally managed to make it work; I added fried bacon bits and my brother was quite impressed. The mashed potato cupcakes tasted mmm-good. Ha! Have some photos of the process:







Tadaaah!

Went to Amsterdam on Friday (March 28) to see my brother's girlfriend in a play (awesome!). Had some time beforehand for shopping, exploring and dinner with brotherdearest. Here are a couple of photo's:)


Impressive building at Prinsengracht 659


View over Leidsegracht


Metz & Co, corner of Leidsestraat


Pizza at Pizzeria Torino; a meaty San Marco (tomato, cheese, ham, salami, bacon and sausage) for me, a vegetarian Capra (tomato, goat's cheese, spinache and onions) for brotherdearest. Had hazelnut icecream for dessert, also delicious.


Tower of Amsterdam University (near Crea center)


Balcony at Sarphatistraat


Metro (subway) with fancy old castle/ballroom design


Kroonluchter (photo;) on metro-ceiling


My loot: toothbrushes from Witte Tandenwinkel (Runstraat - White Teethshop) + cool cards and luxurious chocolate with pink pepper* from The Frozen Fountain (Prinsengracht) + all kinds of American and English goodies from Eichholtz Delicatessen (Leidsestraat)

*does anyone else want to try this? (I already sampled...)

MMmm, bonbons from Antwerp:


And this is just the top layer of THREE!
I brought them for mom, but she was kind enough to share them during our film-evening up in the attic;)

Dinner, Saturday April 23

Omelet (made with eggs from the bossman's chickens) with chipolata (included on the bottom) and carrots. Quite proud of the result. Looked pretty good and tasted great:)

Delicious traditions...


The bossman gave each of us a bread basket for Easter:


And when I got home I found mom had left me Chocolate bunnies and chickens plus a piece of lemon-nougat, omnomnom.

I made dinner for me and mom tonight (before we went to the Arthouse to -finally- see Black Swan)

Chicken, potatoes in skin with oniondressing and miniature beets.

Dinner Saturday, March 26: Hot Dog Pizza!

Okay, I agree it sounds horrible, especially the pickles and mustard, but it tastes mm-mm-good. :-)

Yum

Huge bar of chocolate, bought for the design of the wrapper, honest (scroll down to final photo in that batch:)


"DuoBrood": one loaf of bread, two flavors:)


"Donker veelgranen en maisbrood" = Dark whole grain and cornbread.

Bloemkoolschotel / Cauliflower ovendish


Ingredients: saucemix+egg, cauliflower, minced meat, potatoe-slices (in flowershapes;).


First layer: potatoe-slices


Second layer: cauliflower + minced meat


Third layer: potatoe-slices


Finished third layer:)


Final layer: sauce


Finished final layer--> in oven for 45 minutes (200C)


Tadaah! Luckily the lovely flowershapes of the potatoeslices became visible again once served on plates:)