Sometimes you don't want to spend a night in the kitchen, at least I don't.
Then it's good to know fast, easy and cheap alternatives exist.
I found this recipe on the back of a 500 gram package of prepackaged (and precooked) sauerkraut (zuurkool) with wine and bacon (wijnzuurkool met spek):
warm the saurerkraut as described on the package (3,5 minutes in the microwaveoven suffices), add a banana in slices and some spoons of shredded cheese. Mix. Eat.
It's good!
Tuesday 26 February 2008
Monday 18 February 2008
new combinations ...
As Cornell is busy preparing his new batch of delicious looking pictures (I don't know if he is busy doing that, but maybe this post will instill in him a sense of obligation, not that feeling obliged is good or making others feel obliged is very moral, so I probably shouldn't manipulate Cornell in this way. On the other hand I know Cornell is an INTP, so not easily manipulated, and I think he will take this remark the way it was intended, that is, as a joke, which by now has been thoroughly spoiled by this unnecessary explanation, which has become too lengthy by far too, though not by any fault on my part as I am only doing what a blogger is supposed to do on the world wide web, that is: describing every part of his life in detail on his little spot on the net, but because that is not what this blog is about (that is: not all details of our lives. It is about food) I will terminate this ongoing string of words before you all lose your attention and go on to the main attraction of today: the description of some new combinations of paleolithically approved meals) I will describe some combinations I tried out the past weeks.
- White cabbage
- mushrooms
- onion
- cubes of ham
(very good, I had this twice (three meals each time) and will have this again...)
- red cabbage
- mushrooms
- onion
- lean minced meat
spiced with sambal
(not very original (compared to the above one) but good none the less. Goes well with some apple compote).
- the dutch vegetable 'koolraap', which took some time to clean and cut up due to its very tough exterior.
Stir fried with some onion and some cubes of smoked bacon.
Good! The 'koolraap' gets softer and tastes quite sweet after stir frying.
These meals are cost efficient as all these vegetables are cheap in winter.
I can eat for approximately 5 euro's a day (if I don't count the luxuries I sometimes afford myself for later in the evening, like a bit of port or bailies with some cheese or somethign). 5 euro's a day. That's quite cheap to me.
- White cabbage
- mushrooms
- onion
- cubes of ham
(very good, I had this twice (three meals each time) and will have this again...)
- red cabbage
- mushrooms
- onion
- lean minced meat
spiced with sambal
(not very original (compared to the above one) but good none the less. Goes well with some apple compote).
- the dutch vegetable 'koolraap', which took some time to clean and cut up due to its very tough exterior.
Stir fried with some onion and some cubes of smoked bacon.
Good! The 'koolraap' gets softer and tastes quite sweet after stir frying.
These meals are cost efficient as all these vegetables are cheap in winter.
I can eat for approximately 5 euro's a day (if I don't count the luxuries I sometimes afford myself for later in the evening, like a bit of port or bailies with some cheese or somethign). 5 euro's a day. That's quite cheap to me.
Experiment number 893-93857
It seems what characterizes the paleolithic diet most is its spirit of experimentation. To eat the cavemen way is to tread uncharted paths, to sail unknown sees, to boldly venture out where no modern man has gone before ... at least, that's how it seems to me. From microwave dinners, pizza and pasta to a diet consisting of only fruit, vegetables, meat, fish and nuts (and some cheese 'for medical reasons' (to quote Cornell)), that's something else entirely. And there are no guidebooks, recipes and so on for this. No 'Sonja Bakker'-books that spell out menu's for nine weeks total up to the 1 apple and 1 slice of bread with cheese allowed in between. No, no programs, or detailed regimes for these brave men and women, venturing forth in this unexplored territory.
As Cornells pictures have shown he is quite the experimenter... I'm a bit more conservative I think (or used to make my choices the easy way (never change a winning combination)), but once in a while I try out something new.
So this evening I tried a new combination:
- onions (4 of them, cut in pieces)
- brussel sprouts (500 grams, cleaned the Cornell-way, cut in half)
- pre-cleaned carrots (500 grams, cut in slices)
- minced meat (300 grams)
all stir fried and seasoned with some curry, paprika and pepperpowder, and some sweet chili sauce.
Tasted good! The sprouts and the carrots go well together. I had enough for two extra meals, so I will eat this again tomorrow and the day after ...
Oh, and it's reasonably priced too!
As Cornells pictures have shown he is quite the experimenter... I'm a bit more conservative I think (or used to make my choices the easy way (never change a winning combination)), but once in a while I try out something new.
So this evening I tried a new combination:
- onions (4 of them, cut in pieces)
- brussel sprouts (500 grams, cleaned the Cornell-way, cut in half)
- pre-cleaned carrots (500 grams, cut in slices)
- minced meat (300 grams)
all stir fried and seasoned with some curry, paprika and pepperpowder, and some sweet chili sauce.
Tasted good! The sprouts and the carrots go well together. I had enough for two extra meals, so I will eat this again tomorrow and the day after ...
Oh, and it's reasonably priced too!
Sunday 17 February 2008
TV dinner
Even though according to most recent research there was no television in the olden days, the days when men were brave and women were beautifull (as in the movie '10.000 BC', in cinema's shortly. Wait for the review)it doesn't stretch the imagination too far to picture cavemen and -women enjoying some diverting entertainment. Like a story told at the campfire, or a particularly exciting series of cave drawings. Who knows? Maybe all those pictures of deer, bears, mammoths et cetera were the equivalent of modern day cartoon network.
Anyway, although most meals are easily exchanged with a healthy cavemen-approved equivalent, there are some area's that require a bit more creative thinking on the part of the would-be-cavemen (and -women). As Cornell wrote some posts back, snacks is one of those area's. And I woud add: pizza. You should know pizza is great when you watch a movie, or if you have guests watching a movie with you, or two or three movies (Which I don't get to do that often, but I did last friday with my younger brother).
So what can you do when you want something to eat with your movie, and you don't want to spend time in the kitchen?
Easy: You make a TV buffet.
We took a cucumber in long strips, cherry tomatoes, snack paprika's, green olives with pesto, slices of servelaat-sausage (salami-esque, see last post), and cubes of gouda cheese. We put it all on the table in some containers, and had our dinner watching 'Pan's Labyrinth'.
mmmmmm ....
Next time I think I will add some kind of a dip to go with the cucumber.
The snacks Cornell described would also go well with this, I think.
Anyway, although most meals are easily exchanged with a healthy cavemen-approved equivalent, there are some area's that require a bit more creative thinking on the part of the would-be-cavemen (and -women). As Cornell wrote some posts back, snacks is one of those area's. And I woud add: pizza. You should know pizza is great when you watch a movie, or if you have guests watching a movie with you, or two or three movies (Which I don't get to do that often, but I did last friday with my younger brother).
So what can you do when you want something to eat with your movie, and you don't want to spend time in the kitchen?
Easy: You make a TV buffet.
We took a cucumber in long strips, cherry tomatoes, snack paprika's, green olives with pesto, slices of servelaat-sausage (salami-esque, see last post), and cubes of gouda cheese. We put it all on the table in some containers, and had our dinner watching 'Pan's Labyrinth'.
mmmmmm ....
Next time I think I will add some kind of a dip to go with the cucumber.
The snacks Cornell described would also go well with this, I think.
Comfort food
Yes, even cavemen need some comfort once in a while, when they've battled dinosaurs all weekend, or had to club their particular female conquest on the head with a bone one time too many (cavemen weren't politically correct), or had to fight over who ended up with the chore of cleaning up after disembowelling a mammoth.
(Please note, as G.K. Chesterton wrote in 'The everlasting man', the cavemen imagery used above has nothing to do with the actual cavemen, but is an artefact of nineteenth, early twentieth century popular imagination)
(Also note: even though it isn't true, it's still cool. And that's what counts ...)
(Last note: See? I can even find a way to quote Chesterton, even on a food blog).
Anyway, I was writing about comfort food.
And I had a good comfort food today. Not particulary low in calories, mind, but it followed the paleolithic concepts to a tee.
First I fried an onion in small pieces in oil, added quite a lot of curry powder, paprika powder and powdered pepper.
I then added a largish piece of cervelaat, a kind of salami-esque sausage, lots of fat but quite tasty , I think 200 grams, cut in pieces. I fried that in the onion until it had colored brownish. I do not have a lisp. I just like to use 'ish' a lot. Or should that be 'a lotish'?
And finally I added one courgette, cut in pieces. Yes, some healthy stuff too.
I fried it all for a couple minutes more, added a copious amount of sweet chili sauce, shoved it on my plate and mmmm ....
Satisfying, spicy and a good stuffed feeling afterwards.
Definitely comforting after a hard days night eh ... work inside the house (or cave).
(Did you get the beatles reference? Chesterton and the Beatles in one post. This is getting weird).
(Please note, as G.K. Chesterton wrote in 'The everlasting man', the cavemen imagery used above has nothing to do with the actual cavemen, but is an artefact of nineteenth, early twentieth century popular imagination)
(Also note: even though it isn't true, it's still cool. And that's what counts ...)
(Last note: See? I can even find a way to quote Chesterton, even on a food blog).
Anyway, I was writing about comfort food.
And I had a good comfort food today. Not particulary low in calories, mind, but it followed the paleolithic concepts to a tee.
First I fried an onion in small pieces in oil, added quite a lot of curry powder, paprika powder and powdered pepper.
I then added a largish piece of cervelaat, a kind of salami-esque sausage, lots of fat but quite tasty , I think 200 grams, cut in pieces. I fried that in the onion until it had colored brownish. I do not have a lisp. I just like to use 'ish' a lot. Or should that be 'a lotish'?
And finally I added one courgette, cut in pieces. Yes, some healthy stuff too.
I fried it all for a couple minutes more, added a copious amount of sweet chili sauce, shoved it on my plate and mmmm ....
Satisfying, spicy and a good stuffed feeling afterwards.
Definitely comforting after a hard days night eh ... work inside the house (or cave).
(Did you get the beatles reference? Chesterton and the Beatles in one post. This is getting weird).
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