Catching up with foodblogging...
After the (almost) inedible rice I went to visit my parents for four or five days. When I came back, the next three days in a row I made a variety of pasta dishes - all basic "pasta, tomato sauce plus some vegetables" affairs. Here's one of them:
And then I went away for another five days.
Returning home, I made pancakes with lingonberry preserve:
Not American-style, this time. Not really German-style, either, though: most German pancakes would be thicker, eggier, more rubbery. Mine are derived from a Swedish(?) recipe my mom found in some magazine during my childhood. They're thin and crispy, almost like crèpes. As a result of this I became quite the pancake snob in my childhood: I only liked my mom's pancakes, and turned my nose up at the rubbery ones that my friends' mothers produced.
Next: a first experiment with quinoa - with a zucchini and tomato sauce:
The leftover quinoa then became the main ingredient of five of these quinoa, vegetable and nut patties:
(Note to self: tasty, but don't go well with salsa/ketchup. Try another kind of sauce with them, next time.)
And then: Too Lazy to Go Grocery Shopping Soup - consisting of instant vegetable broth, a handful of "soup noodles" (tiny pasta available in a variety of shapes, to be cooked in broths), a spoonful of frozen parsley, and an egg.
And then I went away for another five days.
Returning home, I made pancakes with lingonberry preserve:
Not American-style, this time. Not really German-style, either, though: most German pancakes would be thicker, eggier, more rubbery. Mine are derived from a Swedish(?) recipe my mom found in some magazine during my childhood. They're thin and crispy, almost like crèpes. As a result of this I became quite the pancake snob in my childhood: I only liked my mom's pancakes, and turned my nose up at the rubbery ones that my friends' mothers produced.
Next: a first experiment with quinoa - with a zucchini and tomato sauce:
The leftover quinoa then became the main ingredient of five of these quinoa, vegetable and nut patties:
(Note to self: tasty, but don't go well with salsa/ketchup. Try another kind of sauce with them, next time.)
And then: Too Lazy to Go Grocery Shopping Soup - consisting of instant vegetable broth, a handful of "soup noodles" (tiny pasta available in a variety of shapes, to be cooked in broths), a spoonful of frozen parsley, and an egg.