Archive for May, 2010
Hubby Cooks: Dutch Pancakes for Dinner (Pannenkoeken)
Hubby cooks every Saturday. So during the start of our marriage… Saturdays sort of became the day we went out for dinner… or ate frozen pizza… or had take-out food. LOL. To be fair, hubby never really cooked intensively during his bachelor days so he was hesitant to cook. Furthermore, he was always aware of [...]
How to Make Garlic Margarine
On my Kibbeling post, I mentioned that I made my own knoflook saus (garlic sauce), which hubby really liked. Here’s my recipe for that. Ingredients: 1 tbsp finely minced garlic 1 tsp dried parsley 5 tbsp MARGARINE (I used Becel) freshly ground black pepper Procedure: When mincing the garlic, be sure you remove any green [...]
Sandwich of the Week: Croissants
At least once a week, hubby and I eat croissants. Usually it’s one of our ‘staples’ during our Sunday brunch but when we are doing the groceries and pass by the bread section and they just happened to finish off baking a fresh batch of croissants… well, who could resist? So, this was our lunch… [...]
A ‘Bad Breisig’ Weekend
Hubby and I have been VERY BUSY with our respective projects lately that we decided to get away for a long weekend :) So we packed our bags and drove off to Bad Breisig, a town next to the river Rhine in Germany. It was a 4-hour drive and as always hubby and I made [...]
Fried Stuffed Green Olives
Two of the things hubby and I never run out of at home are black and green olives. Not the bottled kind. We don’t like the soft, almost melting texture of bottled olives and we find them either too salty or too bland. We buy our olives almost week at the Saturday open market in [...]
