drsaltzman
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Lamb pitas with homemade tzatziki sauce.
Greek halvah cake for dessert.
Greek halvah cake for dessert.
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DarkWeb
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Laughing Grass
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I'm in! That looks great. I've never had halvah cake. I'm used to halvah looking more like fudge.@Laughing Grass needs to see that. Looks great bud. I bet it's good
drsaltzman
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Has zero halvah as we know it.
Semolina, pistachio, orange, sugar, honey ... a little cinnamon ... and the best extra virgin olive oil you have on hand.
All stovetop, not baked.
It's vegan (if you're a honey eating vegan).
Semolina, pistachio, orange, sugar, honey ... a little cinnamon ... and the best extra virgin olive oil you have on hand.
All stovetop, not baked.
It's vegan (if you're a honey eating vegan).
drsaltzman
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Chili and tortillas here.
Only two lbs left!
Only two lbs left!
Sativied
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Pasta funghi plus
Smoked bacon blocks
Cook in its own fat, drain it, put aside on power towel.
Save the grease, use just a little when baking pancakes or potatoes. (that’s not a fly, it’s hash).
Spaghetti, freshly imported from Italy. 10x better than dried out sticks.
Funghi sauce with mushroom chunks (from a restaurant chain who sells it in mini buckets). Warm up and add some of the bacon back.
Add some parmesan
Smoked bacon blocks
Cook in its own fat, drain it, put aside on power towel.
Save the grease, use just a little when baking pancakes or potatoes. (that’s not a fly, it’s hash).
Spaghetti, freshly imported from Italy. 10x better than dried out sticks.
Funghi sauce with mushroom chunks (from a restaurant chain who sells it in mini buckets). Warm up and add some of the bacon back.
Add some parmesan
DarkWeb
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Some meat, nuts and fruit......definitely my favorite over a lot of other things......especially work
It's perfect but for those carrots! LOL
DarkWeb
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I'd eat the damn carrots.....can't be bitching about a bruised tomato...... they're not even real baby carrots.....they make them look that way
drsaltzman
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Oh yeah, it’s full send in here.
drsaltzman
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I wasn’t gonna share because this is dinner more often than it should be but since I know C2G likes these both …
I'd say that's a perfectly balanced meal. I'm looking at making these:
shnkrmn
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It's a modest glass of wine.
I like the Asiago pepperjack Whisps too. Haven't tried the Cheddar.
Sativied
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Babi Panggang with Bami with acar campur and krupuk (prawn chips ) from the Chinese.
That needs some explanation… a little over hundred years ago the harbor in Rotterdam needed cheap labor, so they hired Chinese. Some stuck around and started small restaurants. A few decades later, after WWII, NL had to give up/back
Indonesia. When military and expatriates returned they wanted Indonesian food. Obviously, cause dutch cuisine is horribly disgusting and boring. An employee of a chinese restaurant in Amsterdam jumped on the opportunity and started the first “Chinese-Indisch” restaurant. Within 25 years, as the family of the first one proudly claims, every town in NL had a church “and” a Chinese. All of them still have a largely identical menu. For a long time these restaurants were the first and only place many people ever went to eat out.
Plenty of real chinese restaurants in NL now but when we go to the chinese we actually go to get some dutchinised version of Indonesian food, cooked by a chinese. Two most popular dishes are nasi with satay and babi panggang (roast pork with nasi, white rice or bami). Bami nowadays isn’t real noodles (unless you ask) but is basically pasta. Without further ado, my 5-buck dinner:
) from the Chinese.That needs some explanation… a little over hundred years ago the harbor in Rotterdam needed cheap labor, so they hired Chinese. Some stuck around and started small restaurants. A few decades later, after WWII, NL had to give up/back
Indonesia. When military and expatriates returned they wanted Indonesian food. Obviously, cause dutch cuisine is horribly disgusting and boring. An employee of a chinese restaurant in Amsterdam jumped on the opportunity and started the first “Chinese-Indisch” restaurant. Within 25 years, as the family of the first one proudly claims, every town in NL had a church “and” a Chinese. All of them still have a largely identical menu. For a long time these restaurants were the first and only place many people ever went to eat out.
Plenty of real chinese restaurants in NL now but when we go to the chinese we actually go to get some dutchinised version of Indonesian food, cooked by a chinese. Two most popular dishes are nasi with satay and babi panggang (roast pork with nasi, white rice or bami). Bami nowadays isn’t real noodles (unless you ask) but is basically pasta. Without further ado, my 5-buck dinner:
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I have a 750 ml jar of this in my frigBabi Panggang with Bami with acar campur and krupuk (prawn chips
That needs some explanation… a little over hundred years ago the harbor in Rotterdam needed cheap labor, so they hired Chinese. Some stuck around and started small restaurants. A few decades later, after WWII, NL had to give up/back
Indonesia. When military and expatriates returned they wanted Indonesian food. Obviously, cause dutch cuisine is horribly disgusting and boring. An employee of a chinese restaurant in Amsterdam jumped on the opportunity and started the first “Chinese-Indisch” restaurant. Within 25 years, as the family of the first one proudly claims, every town in NL had a church “and” a Chinese. All of them still have a largely identical menu. For a long time these restaurants were the first and only place many people ever went to eat out.
Plenty of real chinese restaurants in NL now but when we go to the chinese we actually go to get some dutchinised version of Indonesian food, cooked by a chinese. Two most popular dishes are nasi with satay and bami panggang (roast pork with nasi, white rice or bami). Bami nowadays isn’t real noodles (unless you ask) but is basically pasta. Without further ado, my 5-buck dinner:
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Sativied
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People here in NL don’t realize how spoiled we are with these chinese-indonesian restaurants. I cannot express how bad dutch cuisine is. It’s torture growing up with tasteless boiled potatoes and boiled veggies. Getting baked/fried potatoes was a party, getting chinese was like xmas. Yet because it was for decades the cheap/affordable way to eat out for regular folks, and still is cheap, it’s kinda looked down upon. Check this out:
en.wikipedia.org
Hardly anyone is aware of the colonial history behind its origin, colonist showing off, but if you ever go to NL, you got to go to a chinese-indonesian restaurant with 2 or more people and order a rice table. They’ll stack the table so full you’ll barely have room left for plates. An abundance of delicious indonesian food with chinese influence, a proper feast, and when you get the bill you’ll be like “oh excuse me, we don’t want to go dutch, I wanted to pay for the entire group”.
This indonesian influence is also visible in major grocery stores/chains, they all have a section with loads of good stuff like this:
Already filled up today yet this talk of food makes me hungry again. I’m thinking satay. Grilled pieces of pork shoulder chops on a stick, covered in sweet spicey peanut sauce. Maybe tomorrow.
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Hardly anyone is aware of the colonial history behind its origin, colonist showing off, but if you ever go to NL, you got to go to a chinese-indonesian restaurant with 2 or more people and order a rice table. They’ll stack the table so full you’ll barely have room left for plates. An abundance of delicious indonesian food with chinese influence, a proper feast, and when you get the bill you’ll be like “oh excuse me, we don’t want to go dutch, I wanted to pay for the entire group”.
This indonesian influence is also visible in major grocery stores/chains, they all have a section with loads of good stuff like this:
A standard question at a chinese-indisch take away restaurant is “with sambal?” If you answer yes you get a small amount of sambal oelek, which is ok but sambal badjak is the good stuff.
Already filled up today yet this talk of food makes me hungry again. I’m thinking satay. Grilled pieces of pork shoulder chops on a stick, covered in sweet spicey peanut sauce. Maybe tomorrow.