Early birthday dinner: Japanese rice, fried chicken en beef

Today’s Dinner: Japanese Food (Early Birthday)

Today I decided to celebrate my birthday a couple of days earlier, and ordered Japanese food from my favorite restaurant in town. ^_^ I had unagi maki, ebi curry maki, tori karaage, meshi (Japanese fried rice), ebi tempura and beef in black pepper sauce. It was delicious!
Easy Quick Chocolate Dessert Recipe

Easy Chocolate Dessert Recipe (No-Bake)

Lately I've been experimenting with making desserts and I wanted to share my recipes, also as a personal reminder as I have very little experience with making desserts to begin with. ^_^; Note to self: Take pictures under better lighting circumstances next time... Anyway, this is what I made: Chocolate Dessert…
Rice dish with chicken thighs

Rice Dish: Chicken Thighs and Veggies

If it wasn't obvious already, I love rice dishes! This time I used a dark soy sauce for the chicken thighs. I prepared the rice with butter, white pepper, garlic powder, kurkuma (curcumin) powder and some salt. Through the rice, I mixed garlic, onions, Spanish pepper, shiitake and Chinese cabbage that…
Nicely filled soup with sukade lappen

Today’s Dinner: Nicely Filled Beef Soup

Today I made a nice soup, filled with ingredients! In addition to several spices, soy sauce, coconut oil and butter, I added carrots, onions, mushrooms, garlic, potatoes, spring onion and beef. The result: delicious and filling!
Sushi maki with shrimp, salmon and duck

Yesterday’s Dinner: Japanese/Chinese Restaurant Order

There is this Japanese/Chinese restaurant in my town that I absolutely love the food of, ever since I ordered from there for the first time. In my order, I had the following dishes: meshi (Japanese rice), tori karaage (fried chicken), ebi tempura (fried battered shrimp), and several makis: salmon, California, sake…
ragout and rookworst

Today’s Dinner: Veal Ragout, Brown Beans and Smoked Sausage

It is not what we would call a fancy restaurant meal, but was it tasty? Yeah. :) I cooked the brown beans, ragout and smoked sausage ("rookworst" in Dutch) separated and added them together later. I added a little bit of butter to the ragout, but otherwise nothing was added. It…
Today’s Dinner: Chicken Thighs in Tomato Puree

Today’s Dinner: Chicken Thighs in Tomato Puree

Today I decided to do something different: I cut my chicken thighs in very small pieces, fried them up with some onions and garlic (and spices) in coconut oil and then added some tomato puree. To finish it off, I added some cheese to melt through it. I served it with…
Today’s Dinner: Doner Kebab

Today’s Dinner: Doner Kebab

Today I had a "broodje döner" (Doner Kebab on bread) for the first time. We ordered from a place we had never ordered from before, and after placing the order, I started looking up reviews. They were shocking to say the least. xD From people complaining about the delivery being more…
Today’s Dinner: Duck with Rice and Glass Noodles

Today’s Dinner: Duck with Rice and Glass Noodles

Today I decided to try a can of duck legs that I bought a week ago. The ducks were fed naturally (not force fed) and the legs were precooked in fat. After putting them in the oven for about 25 minutes, minus all the fat (duck fat and sunflower oil) and…
Today’s Dinner: Chicken, Rice and Beans

Today’s Dinner: Chicken, Rice and Beans

Today's dinner (well, my first meal of the day as I occasionally attempt intermittent fasting) consisted of chicken thighs, green beans and left-over rice (nasi goreng) from a Chinese-Indonesian restaurant, with some chopped onions and garlic. Fried in a mixture of coconut oil l, butter and lard.