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schneefink) wrote2016-03-28 08:34 pm
schneefink) wrote2016-03-28 08:34 pm
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Easter food
Sooo much good food during the Easter holidays. Each year, but this year especially. I want to talk about food because food is delicious.
On Thursday my grandparents were still in Vienna so I ate with them at my parents' place, we had an excellent fish.
Friday I made pizza. I wanted to put zucchini on it but accidentally grabbed a cucumber (the sign said zucchini!, in my defense), so I put cucumber on one half just for fun. It actually wasn't bad, but next time I'll definitely pay more attention, and also maybe add some champignons. I have no idea what the comparative nutritional value is of home-made vs. frozen pizza, but it feels healthier because I know I put fresh vegetables on it.
On Saturday my parents invited the Syrian refugee family currently living in their parish to cook and eat together, and I was invited for lunch too. The food was fantastic, minced lamb meat over potatoes in the oven with tomato slices on top, green salad with couscous, and flat bread with hummus. Most of it was cooked by the mother and daughter, with my mom helping out (and dad occasionally but there wasn't really space), so hopefully mom can repeat the recipe once they buy the necessary spices. LB and Bashar, the father, made the fruit salad, and LB said he suspects Bashar never did that before, or anything in the kitchen ^^ Cultural differences. We later learned that the older boy had a kebab stand in Damascus, so he at least can cook something.
For Sunday breakfast my mom gave me hard-boiled eggs and traditional Easter pastries. For lunch/dinner I "only" had rice with tomato salad, one of my favorites because it's quick & easy & good.
Then at midnight I suddenly got the urge to finally make a recipe I'd been planning for several days: Maple Praline Bacon. It turned out fantastic. I left the bacon in the oven a bit too long (still shorter than in the recipe), but it hardly mattered. I ate three that same night, brought the rest for brunch the next day, and I have two strips of bacon left over that I will cook right after dinner. And then maybe go shopping for more bacon tomorrow.
Today I met with my parents for brunch. We had a huge ham and Italian mayonnaise salad, different pastries (klassische Pinzen und Osterlamm und Mohn- und Nusspinzen) and several different normal bread rolls, painted hard-boiled eggs, marzipan potatoes, and of course my maple bacon. Fortunately they gave me some of almost everything to take with me, otherwise I would have been even sadder that so much was left over, but I couldn't eat another bite.
And now dinner, probably soup with cheese dumplings. (Tbh half the reason I wrote this was to motivate myself to eat dinner because I've been having difficulties regularly eating lunch and dinner on the same day, not sure why. I'll figure it out eventually, hopefully before I lose too much weight.)
On Thursday my grandparents were still in Vienna so I ate with them at my parents' place, we had an excellent fish.
Friday I made pizza. I wanted to put zucchini on it but accidentally grabbed a cucumber (the sign said zucchini!, in my defense), so I put cucumber on one half just for fun. It actually wasn't bad, but next time I'll definitely pay more attention, and also maybe add some champignons. I have no idea what the comparative nutritional value is of home-made vs. frozen pizza, but it feels healthier because I know I put fresh vegetables on it.
On Saturday my parents invited the Syrian refugee family currently living in their parish to cook and eat together, and I was invited for lunch too. The food was fantastic, minced lamb meat over potatoes in the oven with tomato slices on top, green salad with couscous, and flat bread with hummus. Most of it was cooked by the mother and daughter, with my mom helping out (and dad occasionally but there wasn't really space), so hopefully mom can repeat the recipe once they buy the necessary spices. LB and Bashar, the father, made the fruit salad, and LB said he suspects Bashar never did that before, or anything in the kitchen ^^ Cultural differences. We later learned that the older boy had a kebab stand in Damascus, so he at least can cook something.
For Sunday breakfast my mom gave me hard-boiled eggs and traditional Easter pastries. For lunch/dinner I "only" had rice with tomato salad, one of my favorites because it's quick & easy & good.
Then at midnight I suddenly got the urge to finally make a recipe I'd been planning for several days: Maple Praline Bacon. It turned out fantastic. I left the bacon in the oven a bit too long (still shorter than in the recipe), but it hardly mattered. I ate three that same night, brought the rest for brunch the next day, and I have two strips of bacon left over that I will cook right after dinner. And then maybe go shopping for more bacon tomorrow.
Today I met with my parents for brunch. We had a huge ham and Italian mayonnaise salad, different pastries (klassische Pinzen und Osterlamm und Mohn- und Nusspinzen) and several different normal bread rolls, painted hard-boiled eggs, marzipan potatoes, and of course my maple bacon. Fortunately they gave me some of almost everything to take with me, otherwise I would have been even sadder that so much was left over, but I couldn't eat another bite.
And now dinner, probably soup with cheese dumplings. (Tbh half the reason I wrote this was to motivate myself to eat dinner because I've been having difficulties regularly eating lunch and dinner on the same day, not sure why. I'll figure it out eventually, hopefully before I lose too much weight.)
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Wie machst Du den Reis? Nur mit Salzwasser? Oder hast Du einen speziellen Reis?
Beim Perser esse ich ihn gerne mit Berberitzen und Safran, aber ohne alles schmeckt mir Reis leider eher fad.
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Ich mach Reis fast immer nur mit Salzwasser, dafür würz ich die Marinade vom Tomatensalat mehr und nach dem Zusammenmischen passt das sehr gut. Reis ohne Soß ess ich nur selten.
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-J
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The Syrian family dinner sounds great as well! That sounded like a nice evening.^^
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In evangelischen Gemeinden ist ja, soweit ich weiß, Freitag der höchste Feiertag - aber auch Fasttag, Pech ;)
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Kann sein, bei uns ist hauptsächlich Osterfeuer um die Zeit rum. Persönlich bin ich atheist, da achte ich nicht so drauf, und meine Eltern und Großeltern nehmen es selber nicht so genau. Meine Tante war auf jeden Fall in der Kirche, aber frag mich nicht, an welchem Tag!
;) Und ja, dass mit dem Fasten ist auch nur eher freiwillig in der Familie, also halb so wild.
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Gefastet wird bei uns eigentlich auch nicht mehr. Meine Mutter ist die Einzige, die bei uns noch immer wieder in die Kirche geht, aber dieses Jahr haben wir beim Ostersonntagsfrühstück zum ersten Mal ein Frühlings- statt einem Kirchenlied gesungen (aber Singen gehört sich noch ^^)
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Hah, wir singen nicht wirklich, aber Eier färben und suchen natürlich. Und ausblasen, aber das haben wir uns schon ne Weile nicht angetan. :)
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Dieses Jahr nicht, weil ich ausgezogen bin, aber davor haben wir jedes Jahr gemeinsam Eier angemalt, manchmal sind die sogar sehr kunstvoll geworden.
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