Food

This evening's menu :

• Paella with mussels, calamari, scampis and chicken
• Pineapple mousse with bananas and eggnog

Tonight's dinner :

• Mini baguettes with goat cheese, apples and honey
• Asparagus cream soup (see picture)
• Chicken sausages with sauce Provencale
• Lemon cake

M. bought me a bread baking machine for my Christmas present. It produces the most delicious bread ever; For now, I'm just trying the easy way with the all-in-mix flour for sweet white bread and multigrain bread. There are plenty Dutch sites about bread baking machines, with many recipes for special breads like onion or cheese bread; here are some interesting links, all in Dutch :

* Broodrecepten.nl
* Comparing different machines
* Differences between the bread machines of Aldi and Lidl
* Bread baking portal

Something terrible has happened : the local Quick restaurant has disappeared from our village ! Where do I now get my favourite hamburger ?

In this ice cold weather, nothing beats a good hot bowl of home made broccoli soup.

This weeks menu :

* Broccoli soup
* Chinese wok dish with soya, chicken and nasi goreng
* Champagne sabayon

This evening's menu :

* Halibut mousse on a bed of cherry tomatoes and smoked salmon (the picture on the left doesn't really show the lively colors of the recipe)
* Veal stew with mustard and Grimbergen beer, served with mashed potatoes
* Coconut 'macaron' rocks

The menu for this evening :

• sweet celery soup with apples
• codfish with Duchesse potatoes (no picture)
• pancakes with icecream and chocolate sauce

Bon appetit !

I have enrolled in cooking lessons. So far I have managed not to burn down the place, which is a good sign ;) It's really fun to cook a meal with a small group of people, and the recipes are really good. The image shows the entree of last evening : salmon pie on a bed of watercress, soya and cocktail sauce. Yummy !

If you're not a frequent flyer like I am, you might be interested in airline meals. Are they as tasteless as frequent described ? Airlinemeals.net gives you an answer to this question, even with a picture of one of the meals served in commercial airlines.