It's funny (or I suppose not) how I've developed a taste for all things sweet over the past few years since I've stopped smoking. And fruit! Apricots, pears, peaches, naartjies, oranges...
Well, smoking deadens the taste buds and the receptors in the nasal epithelium. Now that you've stopped, your taste sensations have returned... which could be devastating to your girlish figure.
But it's been a few years since I stopped (smoking), and still I can't stay away from chocolate... and fruit... Ah well, it's better than smoking! And I have managed to keep my girlish figure, thank you! Er.... I mean.... my masculine figure! _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
This just has to be the world's supreme dish.... it's a rarity, and I've finally found a recipe for it! Biltong soup!! It is magnifecinto!!
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Biltong soup
Ingredients
125 ml butter
2 beef stock cubes
10 ml coarsely ground black pepper
2 ml whole nutmeg, grated
2 ml freshly ground coriander
250 ml cake flour
500 ml milk
2 litre boiling water
250 ml coarsely grated Cheddar cheese
200 g finely sliced moist biltong
cream and port to taste
100 g grated blue cheese
bread sticks for serving
Method:
Melt the butter in a heavy-based saucepan. Crumble the stock cubes and add along with the spices. Add the flour and heat, stirring continually until the flour begins to simmer. Mix the milk and boiling water, and slowly stir into the flour mixture. Stirring continually, heat slowly over medium heat until the mixture begins to simmer and thicken. Remove from the heat and stir in the Cheddar cheese and half the biltong. Do not bring the mixture to boil again. Keep warm until ready to serve. Stir in a little cream and port just before serving if desired. Ladle the hot soup into deep soup bowls and scatter a little of the remaining biltong and crumbled blue cheese on top. Serve with bread sticks.
_________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
Last edited by André in Zuid-Afrika on Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:21 pm; edited 1 time in total
I guess in the US you could replace the biltong with jerky. Jerky soup! Surprise your friends!! _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
Last edited by André in Zuid-Afrika on Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:24 pm; edited 1 time in total
My favourite part of that recipe is.... port to taste... _________________ 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 Aug 06, 2009 1:08 am Post subject:
Well, I've figured out that coriander is cilantro, but I'm not familiar with the terminology: "port to taste" (or "port just before serving" for that matter).
Well, I've figured out that coriander is cilantro, but I'm not familiar with the terminology: "port to taste" (or "port just before serving" for that matter).
You're teasing again, aren't you?
_________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
Oh, port wine! Sorry, but I've never seen it used as a verb before.
Now concentrate, Elaine. It's not used as a verb here either. "Port to taste" = (add) port to taste, and then... (stir in...) port before serving. _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
But you are playing the mickey with me, aren't you?! _________________ 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 Aug 06, 2009 11:28 pm Post subject:
Duh, I'm wetawded. EPIC FAIL on reading comprehension, Elaine! I misread "cream and port to taste" as instructions rather than simply a listing of ingredients and kept brainfarting from that point on. Boy, do I feel dumb.
Duh, I'm wetawded. EPIC FAIL on reading comprehension, Elaine! I misread "cream and port to taste" as instructions rather than simply a listing of ingredients and kept brainfarting from that point on. Boy, do I feel dumb.
Well, being blonde is always a good excuse, I use it all the time! _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
But I was convinced you were playing the mickey with me! _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
I got it right away, but I reread it and saw exactly where Elaine went wrong -- she was thinking cream as in the verb (to mix) and went from there!
And being from the East Coast as a kid, it took me a while to realize that cilantro was just Spanish for coriander. But as coriander was not something I ever encountered much in cooking (and I can still only take cilantro in small doses), and generally came in seed form in the spike rack rather than as fresh leaves in the produce section, I hope I can be forgiven! _________________ An apple a day....
I got it right away, but I reread it and saw exactly where Elaine went wrong -- she was thinking cream as in the verb (to mix) and went from there!
And being from the East Coast as a kid, it took me a while to realize that cilantro was just Spanish for coriander. But as coriander was not something I ever encountered much in cooking (and I can still only take cilantro in small doses), and generally came in seed form in the spike rack rather than as fresh leaves in the produce section, I hope I can be forgiven!
I have no idea what you're talking about. How can cream be a verb? _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
In cooking, to cream is to mix things together into a creamy consistency -- you are said to cream butter and sugar together, for instance. Potatoes and steamed cauliflower, when mixed with milk and butter and pulverized into submission can be said to be mashed, whipped, or creamed -- it all amounts to the same pudding-like result.
In other contexts, to cream someone is to defeat them, as in "The Raiders creamed the Cowboys in last night's game!" (Okay, not a good example; the Raiders always suck, but you get the idea....) _________________ An apple a day....
In cooking, to cream is to mix things together into a creamy consistency -- you are said to cream butter and sugar together, for instance. Potatoes and steamed cauliflower, when mixed with milk and butter and pulverized into submission can be said to be mashed, whipped, or creamed -- it all amounts to the same pudding-like result.
In other contexts, to cream someone is to defeat them, as in "The Raiders creamed the Cowboys in last night's game!" (Okay, not a good example; the Raiders always suck, but you get the idea....)
Interesting. I've never heard it used in such a way in English here, allthough we do have the Afrikaans word verroom. But it has a more limited meaning.
As for other contexts, we do have the expression: I nearly creamed myself (with laughter/fear etc.). But that's not really a nice thing to say... _________________ 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: Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:43 pm Post subject:
Some kind-hearted, but totally evil, soul brought in some deliciously decadent Deluscious cookies this morning for me to try. Bless her black little heart! Deluscious cookies are supposedly the in thing in boutique gourmet treats (eg. Sprinkles cupcakes, Millions of Milkshakes, etc.), but at $40 for a dozen, I think I'll stick with my Chips Ahoy!
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