Koolrabi

1 Chicken with garlic, chili, paprika powder, green beans, red cabbage and "koolrabi". I really don't know the english word for it, but here's a wikipedia page that has pictures of it. Apparently a hybrid of wild cabbage and wild white beets.
2 Salted herring!
3 Bacon, eggs, tomatoes and shrimp. Very satisfying.
4 Bacon and fresh spinach, my new comfort food.

Cornell's Spicy Chicken

1 Chicken, broccoli and red cabbage with some more of the fruit from the previous post.
2 Pork, mango and salted herring.
3 A lamb chop and roast beef marinated in allium (or at least I hope that's what "look" (dutch) is called). The white bits are horse raddish and that's balsamic vinegar on the iceberg lettuce.
4 Very spicy chicken (chili powder, dried chili peppers, garlic, paprika powder, onion powder, red onion, mustard powder and tomato paste) on a bed of fresh spinach and lettuce with balsamico vinegar and olive oil. Very, very tasty. And very hot. And very tasty, And very hot.

Fruit extravaganza

1 Porkchop breakfast, why not?
2 Roast duck. I ate at a chinese restaurant with a friend and we couldn't finish the duck, so here it is!
3 That's an avocado if you're wondering...
4 A porkchop with red cabbage, chinese cabbage and horse raddish.
5 A delicious fruit salad of mango, very sweet grapefruit, nectarine, plums, melon and fresh pineapple. Highly recommended!

Another great combination

Do they never end?
Not that I'm aware of. And I think Cornell would agree, seeing how he never seems to repeat himself... Or do you?
So yesterday I took a large broccoli (sadly parts of the stem were no good anymore), and cut it up. I stir fried it with 250 grams of chestnutmushrooms in quarts, 300 grams of extra lean minced meat and 5 tomatoes (cut up). The tomatoes finally fell apart and together with just a bit of soy sauce and sweet chili sauce made a tasty sauce. I combined half of this with half a can of sliced red beets (a good salad that).
This evening the other half for dinner!
I had the same yummie breakfast as yesterdag, by the way. Egg is really good to keep a full feeling from 7.30 to 12.00 am. So I'll do that more often. And boy, do I like melon, it's sweet, it's juicy, it's just great...

Johan

Creative with cabbage...

Last week I made two delicious dishes with cabbage.

For the first one I took one red cabbage (cut it in half and marvel at the beautifull pattern of bright white and dark red. Just like brains... hmmm... brains). I cut it up. Then I stir fried approximately 300 grams of extra lean minced meat, with two sweet pointed paprika's (bellpeppers) and here's the clincher: 400 grams of mango in pieces. (For red cabbage is sometimes eaten with apples, so I figured a combination with fruit would go well). I seasoned it with some gingerjuice and some soysauce. I must say this was a success in my opinion, though it took relatively long to stir fry enough.
I ate two times from this huge amount of food. A cabbage is really economically packaged vegetable. No air left between the leaves...

In between I made ratatouille for my brother and I to honor the new movie. It's great by the way. And it's about cooking...

Then last friday I had three guests, and I offered them the paleolithic dinner.
I took a green cabbage and sliced it up. I stir fried this with extra lean minced meat again (again approx. 300 grams), 250 grams of mushrooms (in quarts), two yellow bellpeppers (paprika's) and two banana's (in slices). Again I added some ginger juice and some soysauce. This was really, really good. The banana went well with the cabbage, added a nice sweet touch. One of my favorites. I think I have to make a book with recipe's (well, that's what this blog is all about, isn't it).
I also made a sallad with mixed salad, cherry tomatoes, some maize (yes, not paleolithic, I know), and some 'huttenkäse', really young cheese, not even hardened out, but also very low in calories. I also added some pineconeseeds and dressing. This salad was really good too!
We had some fruit for desert.

This weekend I also enjoyed the taste of different kinds of melon.
And I added egg to my breakfasts. It's good too, and gives more of a full feeling than just fruit and nuts. mmmm...
This morning my breakfast existed from half a melon, lots of strawberries, and a baked egg with some bacon. Yummie...

Shrimp Omelet

1 Tenderloin with mango, paprika, carrot, white cabbage and chinese cabbage
2 Smoked bokking. Johan will have to figure out the correct translation.
If anyone knows of a good online dutch-english dictionary specialising in culinary idiom, we wood appreciate it.
3 Omelet with shrimp, paprika and red onion

Nameless Fish

1 Souflaki with paksoi (chinese cabbage?) and apple
3 Smoked schar (I'll leave it up to our fish expert Johan to figure out the english name) with mango and daikon (I think).

More vegetables...

Okay...

Last week I again tried something new.
I had a large broccoli in pieces, 250 grams of 'snijboontjes' (a kind of beanpods, not really 'paleo-approved', but the actual beans are a small part of the pods.), mushrooms in quarters, a paprika (red) in bits and 200 grams of chicken, all stir fried with sweet chilisauce, my ingredient of choice... MMMMMM.... I had two dinners with this this week.
For breakfast this week I had a quarter of a melon (great stuff), half a cucumber, a banana, a nectarine (kind of peach), and some nuts. Also a great breakfast, but I will leave the banana next time because of the sugars in it.

Johan