I, Claudius

This is fish, salmon, tunafish, and two or three other kinds - don't know the names. O and there's seeweed sprinkled over it.

Then there's chicken breast, white cabbage (spitskool), paprika leeks and a few plumbs.

And finally chicken, white cabbage, paprika and broccoli.
I've been watching I, Claudius, so that's what the foods called. No poison in it I hope.

See food

Just pics this time, I think most of the ingredients are visible...

The Nose Knows

The first dish is tenderloin with apple, red onion and broccoli.

The second is a horse steak with broccoli, red onion and a sweet pepper.

The last one was intended to be with chicken, but there was a hint of an odd smell to it so I decided not to use it. The reason that we have a nose hanging right over our mouth is to be able to sniff anything we eat, in case it may have gone bad or seem unpalatable. So I trust my olfactory sense implicitely when it comes to these things. Nose knows best. It tasted good as it is, though for linner today, I'll have the same with the intended chicken.

The chicken or the egg?

This is chicken with broccoli, courgette (aka the amazing zucchini) and some spices - garlic and mustard seed.

Axis of Evil

Yes, I know, the title makes no sense. So sue me.
The first dish has mushrooms, red onion and cauliflower and there is some marinated pork underneath.

The egg in the next picture is spiced up with paprika and chili.

Next, there is minced beef (or ground, depending on where you're from) with red onion, mushrooms and tomatoes.

Cook by Colour

The chicken goes with broccoli, leaks and red cabbage.
Then there's a dish with smoked mackerel and olives, and one with smoked salmon and bellpepper, witlof and iceberg lettuce.

Extra Sloppy Joe

This is breakfast. Can you guess my favorite fish by now?

For dinner I had a Sloppy Joe Deluxe: Minced Beef with aubergine, courgette, tomato, red onion and egg seasoned with lots of garlic, coriander seed, cumin and a few dried hot chili peppers. Actually, this was a leftover from lunch.
I added an apple a kiwi and two tomatoes for variety in flavours.

Cabbage galore!

Two kinds of melon for breakfast, along with a salted herring.

For lunch I had raw ham with stir fried broccoli, cauliflower, red cabbage and pumpkin seasoned with chives, garlic and mustard seed.

Orange

A simple breakfast followed by a very satisfying lunch:
Chicken and nectarine with stir fried broccoli, paprika and muschrooms with some sweet Ketjap.

KISS

Today's motto was "Keep It Simple, Stupid!".

Breakfast was so simple I didn't even take a picture - two apples and an orange. No protein made me a bit peccish, so I made a nice big lunch.
It was stir fried tenderloin and broccoli with the simplest of salads - tomato and cucumber.

Hardly had time for dinner, so to eggs and a salted herring with some veggies hed to do. They did.

All in a day's work

All right, that's too many posts. So I'll just do one post a day. That seems reasonable.

Breakfast is what you see, no surprises.

Lunch is a nice (though not so nicely displayed) Victoria bass with some salt and lots of thyme, accompanied by stir fried tomatoes, fennel and celery stalks. Also some fresh ones there.


Dinner is two eggs with stir fried mushrooms, red cabbage and aubergine, or eggplant if wou will.

Purple Pork

Food, food, food - that's all this blog ever seems to be about. You'd think I'm obsessed with it. Maybe I am. I'm addicted. If I don't eat, I die - really!

This linner was tenderloin with leaks, red cabbage and mango. It was all right, but I got it wrong, the tenderloin should have been less well done and the mango should have been fried longer. Then the meat and mango would have made a perfect match. (I ate twice this amount by the way).

Rays of Gold

What can I say? Breakfast anyone?

Dutch Fries

Dinner is pork tenderloin with mushrooms and red cabbage. The orange chips are fried pumpkin slices.

I made the mistake of adding a bit of salt to the pork dish (which turned out to have needed none) but none to the pumpkin. That turned out to be a bit bland, so I sprinkled just a little salt over those as well. That made all the difference. I've decided that the Netherlands gets a second national dish (the other one obviously being salted herring), in our dutch national colour, orange. Ladies and gentlemen, may I present you - Dutch Fries.

The Wild Side

Yesterday I went to market and picked up some wild salmon. The colour was just so beautifull I had to show you. A fresh, deep red. Yummy. Fried it in a bit of olive oil (never use anything else) with salt and pepper.

I added some celery stalks, an orange, olives and fried fennel. Yummy.

Shakira

So what's with the Title? Hey, you try giving a relevant and attractive name to every singel meal you make and soon, you'll be calling them Beyonce too.

And anyway, Shakira would have liked the taste of this, I bet. And it would have been good for her too. In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out she eats like this already.

It's a fried egg with paprika and pepper (I guess I could have called it PnP). The reds are strawberries (why do I even bother to name everything) and nectarines. The yellows are mango slices. I think from now on I'll stick to naming things that aren't so bloody obvious.

Nuts!

Ah, the absence of lettuce...
This was supposed to be an omelet, but it worked out differently. There's two eggs less one yolk, half a courgette and a tomato with a seasoning of paprika, chilli, chives and strips of nori yaki. A very chuncky salad of celery stalks and nuts (pecans, hazelnuts, walnuts, paranuts and almonds) in the centre there and since I'm starting to get the hang of this mammoth plate, I made sure dessert was already included: strawberries, cherries and grapes.
This would have made an exelent breakfast, by the way.

Victory!

Finally, the last tip of the iceberg lettuce surrendered today. It took stir fried veal liver, half a red onion, a paprika, a pear and a nectarine to kill it, though. The taste of victory was good.

O, and I had yesterday's leftovers for breakfast.

Fit for a Hobbit

I decided I could teach Jamie Oliver a thing or two about nudity. The stir fried chicken, courgette and mushrooms have no seasoning whatsoever. And the flavour could have tempted a gourmet who had just devoured a horse, as dessert.

All this was laid on a bed of my never ending pile of iceberg lettuce (now I know why they compare the thing to a mountain) and tucked in under a blanket of paprika and radish. Since I wanted to give Jamie a break in a seriously unfair fight, I squirted on some curry. Yeah, baby!

But the sheer size of that plate! It's inhumane! I worked hard but it got the better of me. In my defence, I had been snacking during the afternoon. A bit of emotional eating actually. Carrots, nuts, grapes, cherries - I had been studying hard and hit a wall, so I resorted to one of my stress-relief tactics - munching. Still, I hadn't eaten that much. Man, was that plate a pile. I'll have the rest for breakfast. Or lunch. Thank goodness I actually forgot to add the double-slam -bang ingredient - mixed nuts... wow, that could have gotten ugly.

You know, it's funny. My mom, who is a wizard in the kitchen - an exceptionally creative cook - complained that with this new starch-free eating style of mine it would be almost impossible to whip up a decent meal. I think I need to show her this blog. People somehow associate healthy with difficult. I really don't know why. It's never been so easy for me to cook good food. I don't even have to plan it. I just buy fresh ingredients and throw them all together. What's the big deal? Try ordering a Big Mac without the tomato. That can be tricky. Getting yourself a half decent frozen pizza, now that's tough. And getting it to taste good is so close to impossible you could see the pores with your eyes shut. This, this is a piece of cake (without the cake).

My friends, especially the female ones, sometimes ask me why I don't have a girl friend. It's simple. I'm old fashioned - I want a woman who can outcook me!
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Need I say more?

Lunch was delicious. Stir fried chicken and - you guessed it - my favourite veggy with ground paprika, mustard seed and salt.

The salad is iceberg lettuce (there's no end to the thing, it seems like I'm not even putting a dent in the amount I cut from that one head - I'll have to have more tonight) with a tomato, half a red onion - seriously, who would call this beautiful purple red? - extra vierge olive oil, balsamico vinegar and a mix of black, green, red and white pepper.

It doesn't get easier than this and it doesn't get very much tastier either. I love this troglodyte food.