Japan next on ch(eat) around the world, sure I need Sunday lunch and there is a Japanese restaurant in town…handy! this is a Oyakodon:- ‘literally “parent-and-child donburi”, is a Japanese rice bowl dish, in which chicken, egg, sliced scallion and other ingredients are all simmered together in a kind of soup that is made with …
I’m Dave and once upon a time I lived in a house with a wee shed. I was going to use it to make some art but it was too cold, damp and smelly to do anything in. So I decided to work in the house but kept the name. Ever since I started I’ve …
Some stuff, mostly from my sketchbooks.
Ticking off Georgia next on the old eat & drink my way around the world,@woodberrywines stuck this bottle of wine up on Insta last week so it was eyed up for the easy win (e). Georgia has the earliest archaeological evidence of wine making at 6000BC, like 8000 yrs of wine making….8000 yrs!..like they invented …
Rye bread made with a traditional Latvian recipe for eat around the world…was beside an eastern European shop this morning so seemed like an easy win. Rye bread like this is a bit too dense for my taste, same with the dense soda bread they serve around Ireland with soup…I like the crispbread rye thing …
a go at poulet moambe (chicken in palm butter) for the Democratic Republic of Congo, this is my 2nd go at this, the 1st attempt wasn’t great…this is nicer, though very rich….not sure this is a keeper in fairness
‘Arroz chaufa…. is a fried rice dish from Peru. It is part of the Chinese Peruvian cuisine, which is called chifa.’ Is it there a word like ‘brunch’ for a lunch dinner hybid? There should be.This is nice but I’d maybe tone down the white pepper in this recipe
a go at a ‘chivito’, (“little goat”)…the national dish of Uruguay.Basically a sandwich with steak, ham, egg, bacon (I left it out), mozzarella, lettuce, pepper, tomato… probably something else I’ve forgotten to mention.yeah, tasty but you wouldn’t want to be eating it everyday!
(Ch) eat around the world mode active and I think this is ‘Osh El Bulbul’ baklava,which translates from Arabic as ‘nightingale’s nest’ Baklava is popular in loads of countries and I read that this birds nest version was popular in Syria….not sure if that true but hey, we’ll run with it. I’ve found baklava bit …
more boring food photos coming atcha…sorry!This is a go at skoudehkaris for Djibouti, a spicy one pot lamb and rice dish… pretty much like a biryani, tasty enough….though I might have gone overboard with cardamom and cloves