manakish/manousheh - Middle Eastern pizza

This is manakish - Lebanese pizza, one with za'atar and the other one is cheese and meat. Perfect to share to get the different flavours.

Za'atar is a mix of herbs and nuts. By googling it I find hundreds of different recipes. It is usually composed of thyme, oregano, sumac, sesame seeds and salt. And sometimes with other herbs and nuts. The taste is acidic, aromatic and salty, a lovely combination with the cheesy cheese and the lemon - chilli seasoned meat.

Very cheap and very nice! My favourite place to have it is a small lebanese pizza shop in Panania.

today's breakfast

coffee and toasted sourdough bread with figs, cranberries and barberries.

BEER O´CLOCK!

It´s almost the weekend! It would be great to welcome it with this great lager from Bulgaria. unfortunatly I havn´t been able to find it here, or anywhere else outside of Bulgaria. I might have to start importing it myself.

Phở

Phở is a typical vietnamese dish. It is a noodle soup based on a broth of simmered beef bones, that usually takes hours to prepare. rice noodles and thin slices of beef are then added as it is served. The beef is raw when added to the soup, but quickly cooks in the hot broth. Bean sprouts, corriander, thai basil, chilli and spring onions are then added to the soup, as well as freshly squeezed lime juice.

Phở 54 in Cabramatta and Phở pasture in Bankstown are good places for some of the best pho in Sydney

favourite instant noodels

Mi goreng fried noodels.
Nice with instant noodels that is not a soup. The instant noodel soup is pretty useless eating in a hurry, with the soup splashing around your face.
Serve it with a fried egg as in the pic!!

grocery of the week

tamarind!

one suggestion:

try malaysian ice tea with a couple of
lime halves, dried tamarind, lost of
ice and a little bit of sugar.

Ginger Desserts part 2

Skipper Bengt's Ice Cream

Mum always presents this dessert in a glass.
Where she puts vanilla ice cream, small slices of sweet pickled ginger.
Then she pours a little bit of Punsch over it.

Punsch is a liquor typical in the Nordic countries based on the South East Asian liquor Arrack. Arrack not to be confused with the Middle Eastern Araq. Arrack is produced by fermented fruit, grain, sugar cane or the sap of coconut palm. It came to Sweden in the 1700s from India. Punsch consists of arrack, lemon juice, sugar, water and tea which gives a rich and sweet 25ish % alcohol.

Back to the melting ice cream.

On top of the ice cream, ginger and punsch you add a couple of spoons of whipped cream, a walnut each serve and a little bit of instant coffee powder on top.
Finished!

Easy and wonderful. It has a sweet rich taste with a little bitter flavour that appears in the backround of Punsch (arrack and tea), the walnut and coffee that contrasts to the sweet ice cream and sweet and spicy ginger. The whipped cream is a big fluffy fatty nothing, I love it. I think the golden, sweet punsch really comes to its best in a dessert. A little too sweet to drink a lot of. Except in the editorial office of Blandaren. And one glass of warm punsch with pea soup and pancakes at grandma's place on a Thursday.

måndagslyx in Haberfield

I had pappadelle porcini (pasta med karljohanssvamp).

Matt had fried zuchini flowers; fried tiny zuchinis,
cheese and anchovies. (at Napoli in Bocca, 73 Dalhousie Street).

Almond ice cream! Why havn't I come across almond
ice cream before? Matt choose panna cotta ice cream
with caramel souce. (at Dolcissimo, 96-98 Ramsay St Haberfield).

grocery of the week

Cambozola!