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Archive for April, 2008

Deep Fried Pickles

The Royal Oak has a new menu including deep fried dill pickles. How could I not?

Red Rice

Red rice is fast to cook, and kind of chewy with more flavor than some rices. Its topped with a carrot curry sauce. Alongside are boiled baby carrots, and in the back there (should have covered it to bake to prevent wrinkles) mushroom caps stuffed with whole wheat bread, the chopped stem of mushrooms, olive […]

Pearl Cous Cous

Ah, that’s better than yesterday’s. The cous cous gets mixed in with roasted yellow peppers and a whole Spanish onion that is cooked until transparent. And about 200 grams of mushrooms to boil that add texture, flavor, nutrition and bulk.
On the side coleslaw made from baby carrots and a Chinese cabbage, red peppercorns and […]

Cous Cous II

Added more cous cous and spice and tomatos proportionally but still way too high levels of garlic. With boiled young red potatoes and fresh green beans, still, this calls for a dessert for gratification of flavor from meal.

Israeli Cous Cous

Seitan in a tomato-garam-masala mix, spinach and Israeli cous cous salad which is roughly this recipe but I put in way too much garlic so it will come back again diluted and with some veggies mixed in it.

Israeli cous cous cooked in some veggie broth, olive oil, with some mint and parsley

grilling grape tomatoes. The […]

Dessert

I promised no non-food chatter, but this relates…
In the morning over breakfast there was a bang.
Hubby jumped. He exclaimed, what was that?!
I shrugged and offered: Maybe some work at the neighbours’?
He replied, No! I saw the oven door open and shut.
Ah, sez I, that must be the banana.
He’s baffled. I’m baffled that he’s baffled.
And the […]

Let us Eat Cake

Memories restaurant has raspberry damnation fudge cake.