Today's menu:

[Balifrog]

There’s also a croque madame with an egg sunny side up on top.

And a croque bolognaise.

Can you guess what is a croque hawaï?

I suppose with some pineapple on top....
Note that I don't use bechamel. The topping is a mix of cooking cream, emmental and brie cheese.
And pepper / salt of course.
Inside is real ham, not the square reconstituted shit and French emmental.

 

[Shadrach]

I suppose with some pineapple on top....
Note that I don't use bechamel. The topping is a mix of cooking cream, emmental and brie cheese.
And pepper / salt of course.
Inside is real ham, not the square reconstituted shit and French emmental.

So many delicious varieties! The Crogue Gagnet, so yummy too! With sausage instead of Ham, the one with Salmon too! Actually all of them except the Portuguese soupy one.
A sandwich like this, with a bowl of clam chowder sounds like a great combination to me! Maybe with some kettle chips on the side!

 

[jstar]

with some pineapple on top..

It’s like the American invention to put pineapple on a pizza.

Not to be insulting, but nowadays I am really not that purist about my ingredients anymore when I cook for people. The problem is that -besides with some European visitors- it is not recognized or understood anyway.

It’s like the biblical saying “pearls before swine”.

So if nobody appreciates or particularly likes it, if I use Passendale or Père Joseph with the right consistency and pH on the croques, they will get Kraft crap.

I will keep these ingredients for myself. Everybody happy.

 

[Shadrach]

It’s like the American invention to put pineapple on a pizza.

Not to be insulting, but nowadays I am really not that purist about my ingredients anymore when I cook for people. The problem is that -besides with some European visitors- it is not recognized or understood anyway.

It’s like the biblical saying “pearls before swine”.

So if nobody appreciates or particularly likes it, if I use Passendale or Père Joseph with the right consistency and pH on the croques, they will get Kraft crap.

I will keep these ingredients for myself. Everybody happy.

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Pigs won't even eat Kraft products! They're too smart!

 

[Balifrog]

Complete failure yesterday evening....
I have been eating sausage with lentils regulary at the usual French place but was not happy with the fact that he uses a basic hot dog sausage for this, so I decided that I can do better....
Bought the green lentils and some Italian pork sausage, added some bacon, carrots, herbs....
Result : lentils overcooked, same consistency as mushy peas (), and the sausage way overcooked.

How it should look :

How my "realisation" looked

I give myself a 2/10 for at least having tried....
And the old adage "if it looks like shit, it probably taste like shit" 100% applied .
Ate half of it and the rest went straight in the bin.....

And the Miss who is well known for her diplomacy, said "you see, you are a good cooking teacher, but you don't know how to really cook"....‍🌫

Exactly what I wanted to hear at the moment....

 

[jstar]

You could add split peas and bouillon, potatoes, some more meat, the white piece of a poireau or the cheaper spring onion and let it cook with some additional water for a couple of hours. Would make a nice soup.

 

[Shadrach]

Complete failure yesterday evening....
I have been eating sausage with lentils regulary at the usual French place but was not happy with the fact that he uses a basic hot dog sausage for this, so I decided that I can do better....
Bought the green lentils and some Italian pork sausage, added some bacon, carrots, herbs....
Result : lentils overcooked, same consistency as mushy peas (), and the sausage way overcooked.

How it should look :

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How my "realisation" looked

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I give myself a 2/10 for at least having tried....
And the old adage "if it looks like shit, it probably taste like shit" 100% applied .
Ate half of it and the rest went straight in the bin.....

And the Miss who is well known for her diplomacy, said "you see, you are a good cooking teacher, but you don't know how to really cook"....‍🌫

Exactly what I wanted to hear at the moment....

Your right, it looks like way overcooked the Lentils! And in your presentation, it looks like you cook the sausage in the Lentils, not separate?
And that first photo was a professionally taken photo, the lighting is bright, and it even looks like the carrots were cleaned, taken out, and replaced. With the perfectly Sausage placed on top! Just look closely, you can't even see the rim of the bowl? No comparison in lighting, and Photo!

 

[Shadrach]

You could add split peas and bouillon, potatoes, some more meat, the white piece of a poireau or the cheaper spring onion and let it cook with some additional water for a couple of hours. Would make a nice soup.

Yea just go to the market and ask anyone for a Poireau? And see the looks on their faces?

 

[jstar]

Even the word prei (BI from Dutch) they will not understand.

They sell leek in Grand Lucky (and Kemchicks for those in Jakarta).

Extremely expensive but it’s available.

 

[Balifrog]

Even the word prei (BI from Dutch) they will not understand.

They sell leek in Grand Lucky (and Kemchicks for those in Jakarta).

Extremely expensive but it’s available.

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I buy local danuan bawang and celeri.
Good enough for my preparations.

 

[Balifrog]

Yesterday's dinner, Dori fish fillet with creamy garlic lemon sauce.
As the Dori taste is rather bland, it's all in the sauce.
Sauce : Shallots, garlic, fish stock, cream, mustard and some finely shopped parsley (should be dill, but I couldn't find any).
Fatal system error : I ran out of white wine....
The Miss and me agreed the result was spot on. 8/10
Served with boiled baby potatoes for me

And mashed potatoes for the Miss

 

[Shadrach]

Yesterday's dinner, Dori fish fillet with creamy garlic lemon sauce.
As the Dori taste is rather bland, it's all in the sauce.
Sauce : Shallots, garlic, fish stock, cream, mustard and some finely shopped parsley (should be dill, but I couldn't find any).
Fatal system error : I ran out of white wine....
The Miss and me agreed the result was spot on. 8/10
Served with boiled baby potatoes for me
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And mashed potatoes for the Miss
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Looks absolutely delicious! The sauce sounds yummy. It would be nice to add some steamed Broccoli for a vegetable, to make it complete!

 

[Jaime C]

Pigs won't even eat Kraft products! They're too smart!

Kraft is ok, for what it is. As a shareholder, I’ll buy them before similar brands. I do prefer Italian Parmesan and Romano cheeses to top many Italian foods, but not willing to pay big bucks for it on a daily basis.

 

[Jaime C]

For my birthday yesterday, I usually get to request what I’d like to eat the whole day. I’ve been trying to stay away from rice dishes the last couple of weeks, but still got nasi kuningan for breakfast.

I got my last bagel, of the onion variety, with a couple ounces of cream cheese, a very healthy amount of Norwegian smoked salmon slices and some very thinly sliced onion.

After a nap, I got a nice taco tray. With freshly made local beef, shredded. Then a very nice homemade spicy salsa. All of the salsa ingredients came from the pasar. Then added some Mexican cheese blend, and homemade guacamole. My wife cooked up some corn tortillas, with the newly imported jumbo pack of corn tortillas. Finished off with some El Pato hot sauce.

My youngest daughter asked my favorite dessert, and I described a wonderful mashup of my two favorites. Banana cream pie and Coconut cream pie. She did a nice job, and it tasted pretty good. For a 12 year old, she has made some nice things this year.

 

[Jaime C]

Here are a couple of bagels I had last week. The half eaten one is a garlic bagel, the other is an everything bagel.

We brought two types of cream cheese. 50 Philly one ounce servings for $11.99, and a Kirkland brand, that is 6x 8 ounce packages for $7.99.

 

[Shadrach]

Here are a couple of bagels I had last week. The half eaten one is a garlic bagel, the other is an everything bagel.

We brought two types of cream cheese. 50 Philly one ounce servings for $11.99, and a Kirkland brand, that is 6x 8 ounce packages for $7.99.

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That sound's like some very over priced cream cheese, which is not really even cheese! Nice looking bagel's though!

 

[Jaime C]

$8 for 3 pounds of cream cheese is not expensive at all.

 

[jstar]

Same price over here for Anchor from NZ.

 

[Jaime C]

Same price over here for Anchor from NZ.

We buy Anchor butter sometimes, always seemed good. I’ve never bought their cream cheese in Indonesia. From googling prices, looks like 150-240k per kg. So certainly higher than $8 for 1.36kg

 

[Jaime C]

Here‘s my breakfast today. Beef ribs, very tender. Corn on the cob. Garden salad with feta cheese, and blue cheese salad dressing.