Mmmmm, I'm thinking either a thick, creamy potato soup, or French onion, complete with crusty bread and melted cheese on top.
But Ibarra chocolate sounds good .... I often eat it straight out of the package!
For those of you who can't get real Mexican hot chocolate, you can fake it by putting a little cinnamon in regular hot chocolate. But it helps to melt down some real chocolate, not just pour powder out of a pouch..... _________________ An apple a day....
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 11:16 pm Post subject: Re: A cold, rainy night...
Elaine wrote:
And a steaming hot cup of cocoa, served Mexican style! (Ibarra brand preferred, molinillo optional)
Mmmm. Mexican chocolate.
Uriel wrote:
Mmmmm, I'm thinking either a thick, creamy potato soup, or French onion, complete with crusty bread and melted cheese on top.
Sounds good. I think on a cold, rainy night I'd go for clam chowder soup with crusty, buttery sourdough bread. Maybe even have the clam chowder in a sourdough bread bowl, although that's packing in way too many carbs.
Location: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula
Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 1:57 am Post subject: Re: A cold, rainy night...
Julian wrote:
Sounds good. I think on a cold, rainy night I'd go for clam chowder soup with crusty, buttery sourdough bread. Maybe even have the clam chowder in a sourdough bread bowl, although that's packing in way too many carbs.
That's just going to go straight to your abs.
André in Zuid-Afrika wrote:
And pannekoek...
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What do you use for filling? Cinnamon sugar? You will serve that to me when I visit you, right? I'd also like some plaatkoekies for breakfast with lots of butter and a smidgen of marmite. And I'd like my coffee served with karringmelkbeskuits please.
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Those are plain ol' crepes, to me. Not that crepes aern't wonderful. Just not as wonderful as that bread bowl full of clam chowder that's calling Julian's abs! _________________ An apple a day....
Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 8:50 pm Post subject: Re: A cold, rainy night...
Elaine wrote:
André in Zuid-Afrika wrote:
And pannekoek...
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What do you use for filling? Cinnamon sugar? You will serve that to me when I visit you, right?
Cinnamon suger, yes, for traditional pannekoek. But you can use all kinds of fillings, curried chicken, savoury mince, bolognaise... That's when you're serving it as a meal. When you serve it as a dessert, it gets fillings such as caramel and banana, strawberries and cream...
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I'd also like some plaatkoekies for breakfast with lots of butter and a smidgen of marmite.
Not in my house, you won't! That's just wrong. You eat plaatkoekies with syrup or honey, and if you really want to be extravagent, with syrup/honey and cream. And if you're really, really nice with me, and beg a lot, I will add some cheese...
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And I'd like my coffee served with karringmelkbeskuits please.
No problem, but you'll have to make up your mind, of course. If you have your first coffee of the morning with karringmelkbeskuit, that's your breakfast, then you can't have plaatkoekies as well. Oh very well, I'll serve you karringmelkbeskuit with your eleven o'clock coffee. _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
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Of course, I will have to teach you how to dump your beskuit in your coffee.... _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
Those are plain ol' crepes, to me. Not that crepes aern't wonderful.
Similar, but not the same thing! For starters, ours are thicker... _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
Location: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula
Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 9:22 pm Post subject: Re: A cold, rainy night...
André in Zuid-Afrika wrote:
No problem, but you'll have to make up your mind, of course. If you have your first coffee of the morning with karringmelkbeskuit, that's your breakfast, then you can't have plaatkoekies as well. Oh very well, I'll serve you karringmelkbeskuit with your eleven o'clock coffee.
But why can't I have my coffee and beskuit for la merienda? Don't you guys do midafternoon snacks?
Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 9:29 pm Post subject: Re: A cold, rainy night...
Elaine wrote:
André in Zuid-Afrika wrote:
No problem, but you'll have to make up your mind, of course. If you have your first coffee of the morning with karringmelkbeskuit, that's your breakfast, then you can't have plaatkoekies as well. Oh very well, I'll serve you karringmelkbeskuit with your eleven o'clock coffee.
But why can't I have my coffee and beskuit for la merienda? Don't you guys do midafternoon snacks?
Do mosbolletjies taste any good?
Well, sure, you can have beskuit with your four o'clock coffee as well, no problem!
Mosbolletjies are excellent! Soft, sweetish, excellent with the four o' clock coffee. If it's still hot, lovely to have with butter, melting into it. If cold, lovely with jam (which you would call jelly, for some strange reason, here jelly is something completely different ) and butter. _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 10:34 pm Post subject: Re: A cold, rainy night...
André in Zuid-Afrika wrote:
Elaine wrote:
André in Zuid-Afrika wrote:
No problem, but you'll have to make up your mind, of course. If you have your first coffee of the morning with karringmelkbeskuit, that's your breakfast, then you can't have plaatkoekies as well. Oh very well, I'll serve you karringmelkbeskuit with your eleven o'clock coffee.
But why can't I have my coffee and beskuit for la merienda? Don't you guys do midafternoon snacks?
Do mosbolletjies taste any good?
Well, sure, you can have beskuit with your four o'clock coffee as well, no problem!
Mosbolletjies are excellent! Soft, sweetish, excellent with the four o' clock coffee. If it's still hot, lovely to have with butter, melting into it. If cold, lovely with jam (which you would call jelly, for some strange reason, here jelly is something completely different ) and butter.
Also nice with cream and jam, and some cheese. _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
Dang, how many times do you people need to have coffee during the day?!!!!
Now let's see... there's morning coffee, after getting up (or preferably in bed). Then there's coffee with breakfast. Then eleven o'clock coffee. Also coffee with lunch. That should hold you until four o'clock coffee. Then coffee again with dinner, and of course evening coffee. And of course, the occasional coffee break.
Afrikaners are big on coffee! We don't drink much tea, that's for sissies... er, I mean, for English people. _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
Afrikaners are pretty amped up all the time, I take it!
Well, the typical Afrikaner hasn't slept since 1934!
Though, even without coffee we're an energetic lot. Jeez, we're less that 10% of the population of our country, but we have the rest of the country thinking of us daily! Or perhaps it is the coffee...
Don't tell our government, though. They'll ban coffee, and then we'd have the Afrikaners angry..... And then we'd have trouble.... You can take away our schools, our cultural festivals, our sepies, but when you touch our coffee. you die!... _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
Location: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:38 pm Post subject:
I think I'm going to have to bring in some fresh-baked South African pastries each morning just to lure my boet André back here permanently. I'm not liking this disappearing act he keeps pulling.
André, would you care for some koeksisters?
Or some pampoenkoekies?
How about some delicious meat-filled vetkoeks? You should try it with my homemade cilantro aioli. Mmm-mmm.
And this may sound sacreligious, but I am of the opinion that a little cilantro goes a loooooong way. As in, a little dab'll do ya. _________________ An apple a day....
I'll take the koeksisters and vetkoeke! Not very fond of pampoenkoekies, though I do eat it.
Koeksisters are made of dough, dumped into hot oil to cook it, then soaked in hot home made syrup and left to cool before eaten. Delicious! It's eaten with coffee, and sometimes served as a dessert.
Pampoenkoekies (pumpkin cakes) is a sweet dish prepared with, of course, pumpkin, and served with cinnamon suger. It used to be a dessert, and some people still eat it as such, but mostly it's eaten as part of the main course today.
Vetkoek is made of dough, usually bread dough, dumped into hot oil until cooked. It can be eaten as is, or with butter, cheese, curried mince meat, jam, syrup, or basically anything you want. It's usually eaten as a light meal.
I'll try to do less disappearing.... _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
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That's just wrong. You eat 
And if you're really, really nice with me, and beg a lot, I will add some cheese... 
Oh very well, I'll serve you karringmelkbeskuit with your eleven o'clock coffee. 
It's eaten with coffee, and sometimes served as a dessert.
