Food and Recipes while under Coronavirus quarantine #8

[Seni]

 

[Seni]

A couple of days ago I noticed movement amongst some wooden elephants on a window sill and observed a rather beautiful and tiny (luckily) yellow spider weaving a web. Left her there and a couple of days later took this photo. She, lets call her Incy, now has an intricate web and you can see her prey, a big fly and some minuscule beetles. We dont know what they are, fortunately not many.

Incy is on the left, behind elephant's leg

(First time I have managed to post photo from my phone!)

 

[Seni]

Anyway,

Am making aubergines (egg plant)

With baby aubergine, you do not need to salt them.

In oven or wok grill or fry.

Then make "hogao", sauce made with onions, tomato and red peppers.

Pour on top of your aubergines and put in the oven. With some melting cheese.

Basil chopped on top to serve.

 

[acutename]

Interesting fact regarding Kit Kat bars. They are very popular in Japan, and have offered many unique flavors.

View attachment 655642View attachment 655644View attachment 655648(Way more flavors, but I just picture some of them here—more at the Wikipedia link)

It started with a clever campaign. The Japanese pronunciation of the candy is “Kitto Katto”, which sounds almost like “kitto katsu”—which means “you will surely win”—so it was promoted as a good luck item for exam takers!

Kit Kats in Japan - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I had heard of this and was kind of jealous but at the end of the day, I really just like dark chocolate the most.

 

[acutename]

No, the 'real' Dubai chocolate is nothing like Mozart chocolate (nor the Kitkat either). The thing that makes the Dubai chocolate special is the use of kadayif (chopped filo pastry) as a separate layer in the chocolate bars. The kadayif is thin, short, and crispy. Last summer one of the stores here had small frozen 'bisquit cookies' made with pistachio cream on a layer of kadayif, and covered with dark chocolate. They were very delicious, and made in Ukraine. I haven't seen them anywhere after they were sold out.
*OT - they looked like Swedish 'chokladviskvier' (Swedish chocolate meringue cookies). I think the recipe for bisquits could be used for Dubai chocolate ones too, a bottom layer of kadayif, pistacho cream, covered in chocolate, and frozen until ready to serve, as they tasted best after just a short softening in room temperature.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/258793/chokladbiskvier-swedish-chocolate-meringue-cookies/

kadayif is like sweetened, toasty shredded wheat- if you have ever had those Greek pastries that are like "birds nests" (Greek bird's nest dessert, known as Kataifi or Osh El Bulbul,) it is like that. Lidl around here before Christmas had two brands of Dubai bars- one was Lindt and then another brand. The bigger more expensive brand tasted better (go figure). [If you like crunch in chocolate, try a Ritter corn flake bar which is pretty sugary and for me anyway, a bit addictive.]

 

[acutename]

A couple of days ago I noticed movement amongst some wooden elephants on a window sill and observed a rather beautiful and tiny (luckily) yellow spider weaving a web. Left her there and a couple of days later took this photo. She, lets call her Incy, now has an intricate web and you can see her prey, a big fly and some minuscule beetles. We dont know what they are, fortunately not many.

Incy is on the left, behind elephant's leg

(First time I have managed to post photo from my phone!)

I like saving spiders but they are not overall popular : (

 

[IceIce9]

A couple of days ago I noticed movement amongst some wooden elephants on a window sill and observed a rather beautiful and tiny (luckily) yellow spider weaving a web. Left her there and a couple of days later took this photo. She, lets call her Incy, now has an intricate web and you can see her prey, a big fly and some minuscule beetles. We dont know what they are, fortunately not many.

Incy is on the left, behind elephant's leg

(First time I have managed to post photo from my phone!)

I found this amazing spider web, it measured over eight feet in diameter. Although it is difficult to see in the photo the spider is in the middle.

 

[snooptroop88]

Made chili dogs today, Ball Park franks and Campbell's Pabst Chili with beans, yummy but really messy. It was beautiful out today, like summer, so it felt like a good hot dog day, lol.

 

[slowpoke]

Campbell's Pabst Chili with beans

I’ve never heard of this. It was good, you say? I never saw it at the store, but then again, maybe I just never noticed. For canned chili, I automatically gravitate to Stagg brand. Nice to know of other brands that are good.

Speaking of beans, you reminded me of something I was really surprised to see at Costco today. They had the British Heinz beans!

I don’t remember what the in-warehouse price was, as I only saw it in passing. That delivery price showing here is probably higher.

Is it a new trend here to have beans on toast here in the US, or some other way? Otherwise, why would Costco be selling it? Very curious.

 

[snooptroop88]

I’ve never heard of this. It was good, you say? I never saw it at the store, but then again, maybe I just never noticed. For canned chili, I automatically gravitate to Stagg brand. Nice to know of other brands that are good.

Speaking of beans, you reminded me of something I was really surprised to see at Costco today. They had the British Heinz beans!

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I don’t remember what the in-warehouse price was, as I only saw it in passing. That delivery price showing here is probably higher.

Is it a new trend here to have beans on toast here in the US, or some other way? Otherwise, why would Costco be selling it? Very curious.

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English breakfast beans, yeah?? I've never seen that anywhere.