Cooking in Tübingen I

Feb. 3rd, 2019 11:32 am
pax_athena: (spice)
Almost burnout is not a reason to cook less. Either the opposite, since cooking is mediation and good food essential. So ...

This is also not everything I cooked, but I switched to making photos with my phone so you only get the phone ones. (Part of my quest of being less perfectionist and letting things go and posting this without waiting until I gt the photos from the proper camera.)

I am trying to tilt my eating habits even more towards fresh vegs and legumes, trying to stick to meat just once (or in one dish I cook) a week and make myself eat fish once a week, too (this one is harder because my fish-cooking skills lack the variety and it's actually really hard to get good fish in my area). Anyway, here we go - as usual, just ask for recipe or details if something seems especially interesting!



Fried rice. I usually prefer to make mine with snow peas, not with normal peas, but my supermarket did not have any. I added some broccoli to veggie it up a bit more then. Anyway, always easy, always yum.


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Cooking in Leiden IV

Feb. 14th, 2018 06:07 pm
pax_athena: (foodish)
LJ-people - do me a favor and don't use the like function, OK? It's just - LJ is all about communication to me. Liking is great on twitter and FB (which I both only use professionally, incidentally) but on LJ ... I know this is not how you mean it (really; I know you mean it well and I know that my reaction is not logical, I'm just ... irrational), but it annoys me because it feels like the opposite of the kind of communication that made me fall in love with blogging and stay here and not wander over to other kinds of platforms. I would turn it off if I could.

Anyway - food. A lot of these dishes are, uhm, from the summer. I definitely don't eat cold soups in winter :D But given how cold Dutch summers are, it's not too bad. And yes, I keep cooking, even when stressed. I just need this. And maybe I'm also a bit worried about where my body is going to go to if I do not - I'm not that young anymore and we do have a good cafeteria; too good one, actually. Recipes, as always, on request.




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Cooking in Leiden III

Aug. 30th, 2017 10:04 pm
pax_athena: (fruit)
I have so many food photos to show you folks! I have been slightly obsessed with cooking this year - well, or perhaps not that much more obsessed than I usually am ;) Anyway, I have a list of things that I want to cook (not new things, just things I haven't cooked since I moved to the Netherlands) on my fridge and it may be four pages long? A5-ish pages, though, but narrowly spaced.

But let's cut the long story short - here are 25 thing I made. Mainly this spring; summer dishes will be another post, I have enough photos. But not quiet enough time.





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P.S. If you read this on DW and can't see the pics, check whether whatever security extension you use allow pics from livejournal (for some reason, security badger would allow those with http link but not the https ones - just ... don't ask, I guess).
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drink / hike / forage / cook

Aug. 20th, 2017 08:00 pm
pax_athena: (into the nature)
This weekend I spent mostly on my couch. Well, I did go grocery shopping and I did cook and I did run (ugh, I should talk about running at some point, shouldn't I?) and I did iron all the clothes from the last month (and watch quiet a bit of the third season of Voltron; I still think the series is meh, but the female/male ratio both in lions and in general is suddenly much better and Lotor *is* a delight), but mostly I spent it on the couch.

Last weekend, however, was rather different. I went to Rosenheim, where I did:

1. Drink

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2. Go to the mountains


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3. Forage

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4. Make dessert


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Cooking in Leiden II

Apr. 9th, 2017 08:59 am
pax_athena: (kitchen)
I know, cooking posts in such a quick succession! But I just need the creativity outlet that cooking gives me. Plus I am making photos of a lot of the staples that I cook for the first time here in Leiden, things that I do not photograph when I cook them the second or the twentieth time. Although the definition of "staple" is an interesting one once you hit a certain number of recipes - my "yummy" folder alone contains 90 PDFs and there are tons and tons of dishes that I don't have a written recipe for, from pancakes to plov (in two rather different variations), from baked fish to endless variations on "classic" salads. So even a staple can sometimes only return onto the menu after a year. Or have to wait until I'm in a country that has a certain ingredient readily available.

Anyway, less talking, more food. As always: if you are interested in a certain recipe, let me know, I am glad to either provide a link or to try to write it down:



Grapefruit cake that I made with N. It was nice and moist (this was the first time I soaked a cake with extra juice - I was hesitant but it worked greatly) and all around delicious. Having a loaf pan is a great thing.

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Cooking in Leiden I

Feb. 27th, 2017 10:08 pm
pax_athena: (gluttony)
Isn't it fun how your cooking in every place is somewhat different? Or is it just me? Of course it' the question of the groceries you can actually get (easily) in a certain place but also of kitchen equipment (I do not have a microwave here, so anything that needs to be heated up in a microwave is work lunch - but I do have a loaf cake form now) and just the general feeling of a place. My apartment is rather cold, so I make a lot of soups, which also have the advantage of not needing a microwave to heat them, and oven-baked things. There is also a lot of space in my fridge so things get frozen - today for breakfast, I had two slices of a fruit&nut loaf that I made some four weeks ago, for example.

Anyway, here are the things I made in Leiden, at least the beginning of them. Except, for some reason, I did not make a single photos of potatoes with herb quark even though I ate them a ton. I have so missed quark!
I have more photos but the post is overloaded as it is already. More to come soon! (I also definitely preferred the light in the Somerville apartment; definitely made better photos. I know I could learn to make better photos but I am lazy and, when I make the photos, usually too hungry to wait. See the potatoes that never made it to being photographed at all.)

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  • Mood: accomplished
  • Location: leiden
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