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there's an Italian (Florentine) spinach/almond dessert in Claudia Rodens´Book of Jewish Food

One more note about the baked lamb dish.. in step 5, you are supposed to deglaze the pan with 1/4 cup of water, and then 'set the deglazed pan juices aside´. However the recipe then does not mention what you are supposed to do with this liquid. I added it to the milk before I poured this over the meat and potatoes, but since the finished dish had a LOT of liquid, I don´t think I will do that next time, and just not bother with the deglazing (there wasn´t much to deglaze anyway).

See here for some pics about the making of stroopwafels. lapin d´or, I can´t get your link to work, but I found this one online, uses a pizelle maker. It looks okay except for the hazelnuts.. I would not add hazelnuts to stroopwafels! recipe

lots of olive oil drizzled on top, and I guess the moisture from the milk that was bubbling up around the potatoes! I can PM you the recipe, but I have to say, I made 4 breads, 3 puffed, 1 didn't... Kim! you cooked for 70! or 80! and it all looks so good! why be ashamed? thanks for sharing all that.. I wish I could come over and help you eat the leftovers muhammara was the reicpe I used! except I messed around with it so I did not want to call it that anymore.. funny you still recognized it..

I made the slow-baked lamb with fennel and pecorino yesterday. Lovely. The lamb is marinated in milk, with fennelseeds, bay leaves and rosemary. Then layered with potatoes, pecorino and breadcrumbs and baked. The meat becomes very tender and flavorfull. Once you cut into this, it´s not a pretty dish - the milk curdles into big greyish clumps. As unappetizing as this sounds, I still highly recommend it, just don´t expect a creamy elegant sauce!

Wendy and all you PNW eGulleters, wow what a feast! Everything looks great but I have to single out this one: I'd recognize a plate of Abra's food from a thousand miles away Here's our final healthy dinner form last week, noodles with beef and celery and chili black bean sauce. There was a salad of cucumbers, yellow peppers and mint on the side. Saturday we had a bottle of wine, I made pizza and after that we went out for icecream Yesterday we had some friends over for dinner. Walnut-roasted red pepper paste, grilled eggplant with creamy tahini sauce, and my home made pitta! I was so proud of those puffy little breads! After that we had the slow baked lamb with potatoes from Paula Wolferts Slow Meditteranean. The lamb is marinated (and cooked) in milk flavored with fennel seeds, garlic and rosemary. Pecorino and breadcrumbtopping. It was really good. We had some roasted cauliflower and a tomato salad on the side. raspberry cheesecake with blueberry compote

Thank you for a great blog Peter. Ah, all that wonderful seafood! And rhubarb! I am reading The Shipping News and I while I know Nova Scotia is not Newfoundland, your blog and that book did seem to go well together

a whale question.. I was served this dish of uni and whale in a Japansese restaurant here in the Netherlands last night. The black and white strips look nothing like the pictures of whale meat I´ve seen on this thread (and they sure did not taste like beef ) so, what part of the whale did I eat?

Brian, hi, I'm quite fond of the Saturday market on Nieuwmarkt, like you say it's much more relaxed than the Noordermarkt which can sometimes feel a bit overrun by too much, dare I say it, foodsnobbery I'll try to come and see you next Saturday! Please post about any Amsterdam favorites you have, I'd love to hear about them.

that sounds awfully like my breakfast of choice this time of year I tend to think of it as fruit, though. When on holiday in Turkey, I always enjoyed the breakfast of tomatoes, slices of cucumber, some black olives, feta cheese and bread. Seemed very healthy and 'clean'. But then, I'm not one for fried or greasy breakfasts. I went through a crazy phase where I breakfasted with a glass of thick tomato-vegetablejuice. When you sip it slowly and chew, yes actually chew each sip, it fills you up incredibly. I could have a glass of this at 8 and not be hungry till noon. Not sure if that would still work for me though

On the website they say that 100 miles is a "large enough number to reach beyond a big city but small enough to feel truly local". click I have thought of doing this for a week or so, but not 100 miles, my limits would be The Netherlands because this country is so small. (about 220 miles North-South, 100 miles East-West) haven't worked up the courage to do it yet though...

Healthy dinners, #4 minty pea soup salad with soft boiled eggs, fresh tuna, roasted peppers, romaine and belgian endive, with a basil dressing

that is so beautiful. Monkfish is maybe my favorite fish. I love it wrapped in prosciutto and panfried. I also love it cold, in a salad with good mayonaise.

Healthy dinners, # 3 Ricepaper rolls with chicken, yellow pepper, beansprouts, mint & coriander shii-take stirfry with leeks, ginger & garlic sambal/kecap marinated, grilled tofu

Yum! Mind sharing your recipe for the crust? I've got some cod filets that I think I'd like to try this on. ← I chopped up some chipotles in adobo, mixed in a little limejuice and salt. Smeared the fish fillets with this, then dipped in fine cornmeal. The original recipe (I think from one of the Moosewood books) mixes some oiliveoil with the peppermixture, which helps to brown the crust better - mine was a bit dry. Healthy week, dinner 2: lean lambchops, grilled. Bulgur with parsley and sultana's, salad of fennel and tomato with basil, and a roasted eggplant/garlic sauce. One teaspoon of oil in the entire dinner for the 2 of us (on the chops before grilling)

I wish this thread could go on forever. You are a very talented man, Peter Green!

I made the blueberry muffins this weekend, except I used some frozen cranberries I found in the freezer instead of blueberries. I'm not a big muffinfan but I really liked these, they were fragrant and cakey and not at all dry or tough (which has often happened to my muffins ) edited to add: this recipe, like most others I've tried from the book, is easily halved which I really like.

Dianne, good to see watercress! I love it, and I think it's underrated! Nishla these look so good! were they deepfried? Marcia, I think that casserole looks great. Almost like a frittata! We've started another healthy week. Lowfat, lowsugar, no alcohol! First dinner: Chipotle and cornmeal crusted snapper (it looks fried, but was baked in the oven with no oil added, turned out great, with a crispy spicy crust), black beans with coriander yoghurt, avocado/tomato salad and broccoli.

Thanks Jack! and welcome to The Netherlands and to eGullet and to this thread! This thread is really about homecooking - there aren't many restaurants in The Netherlands that serve this kind of food - (and do it well). So you'll have to make it yourself if you want to try it Thanks Kevin.. that's great praise coming from the King of Megathreads... I'm aiming for at least 22 pages myself... ← Almost there, Klary... almost there (been re-reading this thread again). ← Doddie, thanks for counting! Looks like we made it, thanks to everybody who's contributing, because I haven't been putting up any new stuff lately

Peter, I'm looking forward to this week! I'm planning a trip to your part of the world somewhere in the (hopefully near) future, so keep those beautiful pics coming!

yunnermeier thank you so much for this week! (and thank your parents too!) The food looked so wonderful. Too bad I will never learn the secrets of spekkoek though... I hope Farmboy will love Malaysia. How could he not? All the best for the future, and keep in touch when you're in my part of the world again!

I was just going to post them! You beat me to it. They are really good cookies. I made half the recipe and then gave most of the cookies to a friend (both excellent ways to reduce the rick of gaining those lbs. you mentioned ) I halve most cookie recipes btw. I really don't need 36 cookies in the house when there's just the 2 of us eating them!

It's definitely a hard cheese, but nothing like a bowling ball- it cuts fine with a knife or with a cheese peeler. I don't know what the brand name is- the piece is small enough that all I can see on the rind is "ord" and "noo". But I bought it at DiBruno's, and here's their product page: 10-year old Gouda ← I'm still interested in the 10-year old Gouda. If anyone who is reading this thread has access to this cheese, I'd LOVE to see a picture of it. I am really interested in the color and texture, and also in the size of the whole cheese. There are no pics of this particular cheese on the DiBruno's website. Please PM me if you have a pic and want to send it to me, we can do this outside the thread. Thanks.

I don't hate mangoes, but I'm definitely not a fan. I like fruits that have a good sweet/sour balance - mangoes, to me, are simply really sweet, just like you described. This is a great blog. I love the pictures and the astonishing variety of foods! You sure eat well!!

oooooohhh that looks wonderful! Thank you so much. I would love to have your recipe. Your batter looks very different from the one I made and I also did not do that thing with the glass! Will you PM it to me, no hurry