Posts Tagged ‘food’

What does € 7,40 get you?

October 29, 2008

This ………..

 
Now to give you an idea how much €7,40 is for two, that’s right… TWO…
Canadian – $11.94
American – $9.43
Pounds – £5.89
Denmark Krone – kr 55.1171
Thailand Baht – ฿ 329.493
Japanese Yen – ¥ 914.560
So you see…for a squash and a pumpkin it really isn’t a cheap meal!  This is going to be one expensive soup.
And [...]

Happy Gobble Gobble!

October 13, 2008

Well Happy Thanksgiving everyone, here in the Netherlands they don’t celebrate this holiday so I miss out on the turkey and stuffing.  Also because I didn’t order the turkey in advance from the butcher… oh and because it costs a small mortgage to get one.  But nevertheless, I will have a turkey this year at some point.  [...]

1:20AM.. and I’m up…

October 6, 2008

Well for some reason I can’t sleep, it could be that I really didn’t do much today, or the fact I didn’t roll out of bed until 11am, or just one of those nights where Mr. Sandman is a little late.  Either way, I’m up. 
So I made myself some hot chocolate and let me tell [...]

Ears like a little bat.

September 16, 2008

While taking a break from stripping wallpaper for the majority of the morning, I thought it would be time to grab a quick snack before getting back to the grind.  So I made a favourite of mine, Knäckebröd (which is actually Swedish) and smeerkaas  (the Dutch version of cream cheese).  I sit down here at [...]

Over use of cellophane.

June 25, 2008

There is something I don’t understand in this country, and that is the need to wrapped vegetables up in cellophane instead of letting them be free. If I want a red pepper I have to exam it through the plastic wrap. I don’t get why they would do this, more hygienic? But you can touch [...]

All I want is a salad!!

May 1, 2008

I’ve had this on going problem here in NL when it comes to salads in restaurants.  For some reason I can’t get a salad….lettuce…the green leafy stuff that goes well with things like cucumbers, tomatoes, or nothing at all but the leafy stuff.   I’ve had salads where I think 2 or 3 lettuce leaves were used and [...]

The results of Kwark

April 28, 2008

This is the final product of kwark.  This jelly like cake is similar (loosely) to cheesecake but more of a slimy, jello like texture.  Natural flavour kwark is bland, so you have to jazz it up with fruit or sugar.  The flavour isn’t that bad, the texture is another thing.  It almost reminds me of [...]