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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
xc and the photo of the day 3
I've already posted about my oh so awesome banana cake and since we had a stock of mushy bananas at home, G asked if I can make them into banana cakes. And as I am a sucker for anything that has anything to do with baking, I made one. It was just the right time too since we went to A's place to spend the afternoon in the warm summer sun and a post of banana bread was just what was needed to end the afternoon.
Monday, August 24, 2009
xc and the risotto napoletana
Whenever I'd make "saing" some rice in our trusty old casserole, G would always complain saying I'm not cooking it right. He'd rather have those instant 5 minute rice in plastic bags dunked in boiling water that end up looking like little pasta pieces than for me to cook rice the traditional way.
And whenever I'd cook rice the traditional way he'd always put butter and pepper on it (the horror!!) or suggest I put some tomato sauce in it just so it would have some taste (more horror!!). I never liked and understood the appeal of Star rice, so these suggestions always come to me as a shock.
So I decided that risotto would be the perfect rice fix for me and I found the easiest risotto recipe ever...and I'm sharing it with you guys!
What you need:
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1 finely chopped large onion
- 1 1/2 cups of arborio rice
- 425 g diced tomatoes
- 3 cups of water
- 100 g spicy salami or chopped chorizo
- 1/4 cup sun dried tomatoes
- 1/2 cup pitted black olives
- 1 tsp dried chili pepper flakes
- 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
What you'll do:
- Heat oil in a large pan and add onion, cooking until soft
- Add rice and stir until fully coated in oil
- Add canned tomatoes and water and bring to a boil. Simmer covered for 15 minutes. Stir once or twice
- Remove from heat and let stand, still covered, for 10 minutes
- Stir in remaining ingredients and serve immediately
I garnished mine with fresh basil leave.
Easy peasy. Ain't it pretty?
Now it's your turn.
ps. G loved it to bits and didn't complain about having rice for dinner...which was a first.
peace & luv,
xc
And whenever I'd cook rice the traditional way he'd always put butter and pepper on it (the horror!!) or suggest I put some tomato sauce in it just so it would have some taste (more horror!!). I never liked and understood the appeal of Star rice, so these suggestions always come to me as a shock.
So I decided that risotto would be the perfect rice fix for me and I found the easiest risotto recipe ever...and I'm sharing it with you guys!
What you need:- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1 finely chopped large onion
- 1 1/2 cups of arborio rice
- 425 g diced tomatoes
- 3 cups of water
- 100 g spicy salami or chopped chorizo
- 1/4 cup sun dried tomatoes
- 1/2 cup pitted black olives
- 1 tsp dried chili pepper flakes
- 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
What you'll do:
- Heat oil in a large pan and add onion, cooking until soft
- Add rice and stir until fully coated in oil
- Add canned tomatoes and water and bring to a boil. Simmer covered for 15 minutes. Stir once or twice
- Remove from heat and let stand, still covered, for 10 minutes
- Stir in remaining ingredients and serve immediately
I garnished mine with fresh basil leave.
Easy peasy. Ain't it pretty?
Now it's your turn.
ps. G loved it to bits and didn't complain about having rice for dinner...which was a first.
peace & luv,
xc
Friday, August 21, 2009
xc and the Nth I'm back post
If I had a euro for every "I'm back" post, I'd be rich. This is the Nth I'm back post but I know it's not going to be the last.
I wanted my blog to have a theme...photo blog? food blog? a no theme blog? And I've been racking my brains finding that theme that I never had the time nor the motivation to actually continue blogging. It's such a hassle to download photos, post process and upload them that I stop at taking the photo part.
It's also hard looking for interesting topics to blog about...or maybe there are lots of interesting topics but I don't find them interesting...or I'm just plain too lazy or brain fried to write a decent paragraph describing that interesting topic and end up babbling about something else (like now).
Also, I haven't had time to use my laptop the past few weeks. G's laptop crashed, like really crashed and won't start anymore so he's been using, sometimes hogging, mine.
Anyhoos, this is an I'm back post so let's cut the long rambling story short: I'm back.
Things I'll be posting in the next few days:
- 3 new food experiments (which were all successes)
- 2 more weekend getaways
- a couple more rambling thoughts here and there.
But first I have to pry my laptop out of G's hands!! Or just put a password on it, that should work too.
Ad taleur!
peace, love & lotsa motivation,
xc
I wanted my blog to have a theme...photo blog? food blog? a no theme blog? And I've been racking my brains finding that theme that I never had the time nor the motivation to actually continue blogging. It's such a hassle to download photos, post process and upload them that I stop at taking the photo part.
It's also hard looking for interesting topics to blog about...or maybe there are lots of interesting topics but I don't find them interesting...or I'm just plain too lazy or brain fried to write a decent paragraph describing that interesting topic and end up babbling about something else (like now).
Also, I haven't had time to use my laptop the past few weeks. G's laptop crashed, like really crashed and won't start anymore so he's been using, sometimes hogging, mine.
Anyhoos, this is an I'm back post so let's cut the long rambling story short: I'm back.
Things I'll be posting in the next few days:
- 3 new food experiments (which were all successes)
- 2 more weekend getaways
- a couple more rambling thoughts here and there.
But first I have to pry my laptop out of G's hands!! Or just put a password on it, that should work too.
Ad taleur!
peace, love & lotsa motivation,
xc
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