Duvel
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Little one invited a sleepover guest and requested bánh mì for dinner ...
Started by making xá xíu from a nice slab of pork belly …
Our favorite place for bánh mì in Hong Kong always had some great squid fritters as a starter for their lunch menu. I replicated them successfully - much to the delight of the kids …
Served with fresh lime soda …
Bread came from a Turkish bakery - very light, very crisp … best substitute for Vietnamese bread I have found so far. Generously spread with paté, followed by mayo, Vietnamese hoisin with a dash of Maggi, plenty of xá xíu and topped with pickled carrot, cucumber and cilantro. A fried egg for good measure.
Some (commercial) Baumkuchen for dessert & a nice Ghibli movie for kids & adults …
No complaints 🙏
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If I could get my hands on bergamot in affordable quantities, I‘d make both juice and syrup for highballs …
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On 12/11/2025 at 5:59 PM, Smithy said:
Tried microwaving the burrito to warm the contents,
Sorry, couldn’t resist …
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5 hours ago, JeanneCake said:
my favorite was the Barilla with Olives; I used it as a simmering sauce for boneless skinless chicken thighs. I was so unhappy when they discontinued it.
They didn’t …
I like it a lot, too. Good & tart olive touch.
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21 hours ago, TdeV said:
That‘s French pain d‘épice, and I made it from this recipe …It freezes well.
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From a German perspective: you want to make an oversized Knödel …
300 g of stale bread, chopped up coarsly. Cubed would be great, but any hazelnut-sized pieces will do.
(Optional) 100 g bacon cubes
100 g onion
50 g butter
250 mL milk
Fry onions (& bacon) in butter until golden. Add milk. Pour the hot mixture over the stale bread pieces. Let it soaked covered for 30 min, mixing ones with your hands.
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3 eggs, whisked
1 Tbs of parsley
Salt & pepper & nutmeg to taste
Let the mixture sit for 1h, then put into a buttered loaf pan and cover with aluminum foil tightly. Bake in a preheated convection oven at 180oC for about 30 min …
Cool down, slice it up and enjoy 🙏
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For Christmas, we are alternating between our families in Germany and in Spain. This year we will be in Spain, so we „preponed“ our German Christmas gathering with my parents and my sisters family to this weekend. My fathers as well a little ones birthday was just the week before, so we had a couple of celebrations together. As a added benefit we met at my parents in the North and had some icy nights & mornings to get into Christmas mood …
I made classic holiday fare. Spice bread with whole foie gras …
A chestnut „cappuccino“, made from roasted chestnuts, cream, five spice and topped with milk foam …
Duck two ways: breast, dry cured and SV for 4h @ 54oC, then seared. Just perfect and served with a tart cherry sauce. Legs, also presalted two days in advance and SV 36h @ 70oC with thyme, butter, quatre épices and finished under the broiler. Classic dark duck sauce. Red cabbage, lingonberry jam and homemade dumplings from raw potatoes. In the heat of the battle, only little one made a picture of the mains …
There was pear schnapps as dessert for the men, any other (solid) options were declined due to being completely pigged (ducked ?!) out …
No complaints 😎
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I don’t get it …
You separate the content from the can before eating ?! How old fashioned …
Think extra fibre 😎
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@TdeV No, of course not …
I had the nachos as dinner, and the puttanesca as midnight snack. And I didn’t even exceed my calorie limit 😎
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2 hours ago, Duvel said:
With little one on a sleep-over and DW at a birthday party I was far too lazy to cook. So I raided the shelves and threw together some loaded nachos, plus dips. And enjoyed with a vanilla coke (in which strangely some Bulleit bourbon found its way) …
No complaints 🤗
And then …I watched some food shows. Including „Tucci in Italy“. Just the Tuscany episode, but maybe the Bulleit part in the vanilla coke acted up …
I made some spaghetti puttanesca. Olives, capers, real sardines in lemon, fish sauce, olive oil, looots of garlic and tomatoes. Barillas bronze-cut spaghetti and looots of pecorino romano. Didn’t fit to Tuscany, but to my mood. Plenty of ripasso …
Still no complaints 😝
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With little one on a sleep-over and DW at a birthday party I was far too lazy to cook. So I raided the shelves and threw together some loaded nachos, plus dips. And enjoyed with a vanilla coke (in which strangely some Bulleit bourbon found its way) …
No complaints 🤗
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6 hours ago, MaryIsobel said:
Stuffed with? Always looking for "squid ideas."
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Rice paper „bagel“, filled with chorizo, egg and onions, topped with everything bagel mix and baked in the airfryer …
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18 minutes ago, weinoo said:
Forgot to show the dough structure of the above:
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Not sure whether this is a bad idea or - after the possible consumption of certain substances - the best thing ever …
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I’ve visited Munich plenty of times and have been to all the major brewery outlets, with one exception: the Schneider Weisse brewery, focusing on wheat beer in all its glory …
So, this was the day !
They have seven different wheat beer on tap (and some more bottled) …
The beer house also specializes in variety meats, which was just up my alley. See those numbers behind the dishes ? That’s the wheat beer pairing they suggest. Don’t worry - we tested all seven options (plus a bottle) anyway …
First some starters …
I chose the braised heart in a mustard cream sauce …
My friend took the boiled skirt steak with fresh horseradish, which was super tender …
After sampling the tabs I had the sweet and malty Eisbock … simply excellent 🤗
After finishing it was still early and we headed out for the Pschorr, a solid choice for Helles from a wooden barrel …
And tuning in the nose-to-tail theme from earlier I got some roasted marrow bones with a healthy side of beef tartare …
There was some Schnapps afterwards and some beer somewhere on the way back to hotel, but my recollection is a bit fuzzy. Credit card statement also refers to an ice cream, but hey …
No complaints - it was a very fun evening 🥳
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You do now … you do now … you do now …
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How about SV them for 4-6h @54 oC, then searing them hard as you would ..?
I’d assume you’s be happy with the outcome, regardless of minor quality compromises you had to accept concerning the raw material …
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3 hours ago, gfweb said:
Hoagie
Don’t you hate it when they skimp on the bread ..?!-
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Since lunch was on the light side, a welcome early dinner came in a typical German autumn fashion at Augutinerkeller …
Seasonal menu (for @rotuts) …
We opted for the venison “medailons”, which were too thin, but quite tasty and tender. Served with hazelnut Spätzle, an idea I need to replicate at home.
Much better was the classic roast duck, which is always on the menu and never disappoints.
All chased by the Willi Wutz, made from pear schnapps (Williams), pear juice and a ball of pickled pear (hiding in the cloudy goodness).
No complaints and a pretty good sleep afterwards, too 🤗
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Stopover in Munich … of course including a visit to the Hofbräuhaus. Wanted something from their seasonal menu for lunch, but was still too full from the breakfast sausages …
Luckily, they had something “light & liquid” 🥳
Good times !
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2 hours ago, Ddanno said:
I thought I'd try pig's trotters - 2 quid for two, what could go wrong?
After a 3 hour soak in cold water, a 5 minute blanch, a scrub, another 5 minute blanch in fresh water followed by 90minutes in the Instant Pot with star anise, clove, ground fennel seed, garlic, ginger and soy they still came out stinking of the farmyard and were promptly abandoned.
It's duck for me tonight.
Most likely they were off to begin with. Yes, trotter do have a certain smell, but soaking (in salted water) and blanching has always given me a product to work with.Try maybe a proven recipe with oroper seasoning next time, maybe with a fresh batch. I’d highly recommend Fergus Hendersons trotter gear (a somewhat 1:1 copy of the recipe can be found at Serious Eats).
Good luck !
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Breakfast of lazy champions, Sunday “hangover”* edition …
Couple of extras …
Spicy 🌶️
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* of course I wasn’t hung over. But my former self, that occasionally was, would have enjoyed this tremendously, too …-
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Dinner 2025
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Two days ago I made some xá xíu for little ones bánh mì. Of course there were leftovers*.
So, today I took a huge chunk of Spiessbraten-roasted pork belly out of the fridge and started to shave off thin slices …
Kewpie mayonnaise got mixed with the congealed jus**, elevated with a bit of Dijon mustard and spread generously over some toasted chiabatta***
A pile of shaved pork belly, some hefty dill pickles and I was all set**** …
On a productive note: while all this happened I prepared a truita (a Catalan tortilla de patatas) for my wifes work brunch tomorrow. Her colleagues do like authentic Catalan food 🤪
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*That’s what I tell my wife. Of course there were not leftovers of the xá xíu, but I bought 2.5 kg of pork belly and used only 600 g of it on Saturday.
** You know it must be intense if someone used jus instead of juices. Or the German word, whatever that might be.
*** German chiabatta with the consistency of a sourdough rye, but made entirely from wheat and yeast (according to the lady in the bakery, telling me with a facial expression not unlike sourdough rye).
**** Full disclosure: there was a Jägermeister involved. Small bottle, though …