Soy glazed Aubergine over Rice Japanese style

This is a vegetarian  Aaron&Claire YT recipe.

It is a relative easy to prepare dish, but it needs a bit of oil. Aubergines are well known for soaking up some of it.

Start the Japanese shortgrain rice first in the rice cooker.

Prepare green onion, ginger and garlic. Mix the sauce and set aside.

Slice 1,5 cm tranches off the aubergine and salt them a little. Coat them in cornstarch on both sides. Bake them in two batches in oil 3 min on each side.

Clean the pan or use a second one. Put in the oil and fry off the veggies, add the sauce and place the cooked aubergine slices in to coat in the sauce.

Place the rice on the bottom of a bowl and put the aubergine slices on top. Sprinkle with greens from the onion and sesame seeds.

Ingredients:

1 large aubergine/eggplant

2 green onions

4 garlic cloves

1 knob of ginger

5 tbsp cornstarch

Salt  pepper

Sesame seeds

Sauce:

2 tbsp dark soy sauce

2 tbsp Mirin

2 tbsp Sake

1 tsp rice syrup

Trackday food in Oschersleben

I was at a trackday at the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben in Saxonia'-Anhalt.  The trackday organizer provides at hot lunch when the engines go silent for Motorenruhe.

They use a good butcher with catering. A lot of work for 70 drivers and a lot of passenger princes or princesses. 

A warm lunch on a very windy day, later we had severe storm gusts, is very welcome.

They offered braised pork, chicken, potato gratin, wedges and mixed veggies. A tiny vanilla cream for dessert.

Later we had small pots of locally sourced ice cream varieties.

A solid lunch that kept us fighting against the storm on track later.

Eating out at Kizuna Sushi & Grill

After a 5 hours drive with some short stops I have reached Oschersleben again. Tomorrow I will be driving at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben.

I reached the city center and parked my car to walk around the corner and reached the pedestrian area. A short walk to the restaurant.

Lunchtime there was busy, but I have got a table.

I ordered from the lunch menu and that included a Tom Yum Soup.

As a main I ordered in house made noodles with roasted duck.

Both very good

Red Carmargue Rice as Dirty Rice

The chicken in vinegar asked to be served with Dirty Rice.

That is usual some kind of meatfree Jambalaya. But I did not have the ingredients for that at home. Some checking my cupboard stuff a box with red rice came up.

Carmargue red rice is rare and expensive. It is wholegrain rice and cooks double the time of regular rice. But it had the right color for dirty rice.

I added a green onion, half of a red bell pepper and half of a small can of sweet corn as veggies to the pot and sweated them down for 3 minutes. Then the washed rice went in and good double the water. 2 tsp of Turkish paprika paste went in. 

When you do not soak the rice before using it, even after the cooking time it will stay a little firm like mist of the wholegrain rices do.

Season it with hot smoked paprika, salt and pepper and it is good to serve with the main dish.

Ingredients:

1 rice cooker cup of red carmargue rice, washed

2 1/2 rice cooker cups water

1 heaped tsp paprika paste

1 tbsp olive oil

1 spring onion

1/2 red bell pepper

1/2 small can sweet corn

Hot smoked paprika, salt and pepper

Poulet au Vinaigre

Chicken in Vinegar? I read that and thought why not white wine? It is from the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

But the taste is great and not vinegary!

I bought a whole cornfed chicken raised in France and a bottle of white wine vinegar. The few other ingredients were at home.

The recipe is from my new French cooking msgazine issue. I read the ingredients list and thought 3 gousses s'ail en chemise = garlic cloves in a shirt :-)  not peeling the cloves.

Brown the chicken pieces on both sides, add the veggies and the tarragon.

There is a neat trick to cook with vinegar. Put all the ingredients in, grab a lid in one hand and the measured out vinegar in the other. Pour it over the chicken and close the lid immediately.

Put the pot in the oven and bake it for 30 min.

The chicken is served with some kind of Dirty Rice.

Use the carcass and all offcuts to cook some good chicken stock.

Ingredients:

1,6 kg whole cornfed chicken, broken down in 8 pieces

Chicken seasoning

1 tbsp oil

30 g butter

1 large yellow onion, quartered

2 shallots, quartered

1 large carrot in big chunks

3 tarragon sprigs

150 ml white wine vinegar

Salt and pepper

 

 

Bubble Gum Energy Drink

Wtf! Who drinks something like this?

I was at the new carwash nearby to get all the bugs and all the oil absorband from the Green Hell from the back and the rims off my car.

They are not cheap, but okay. As a goody I've got a dashboard wipe and a small can.

At home I realized it was an energy drink and I put it in the fridge. It has Guarana and Ginger written on the top of the can.

In a glass it looked like a dissolved blue bubble gum, it tasted like a weird kind of bubble gum.

I did not taste any ginger. Most of it went down the drain of the kitchen sink.

Potato Omelet with Manchego Cheese

LIDL had Spanish week. That's why I used Manchego cheese for this dish.

Potatoes, onions and eggs sounds like something you will find in Spain. But I added some carrot for color and precooked the veggies for 7 minutes.

A large pan with a good amount of olive oil was preheated. The drained veggies went in to get cooked.

I seasoned with Spanish hot smoked paprika, green paprika powder, salt and pepper and garlic powder.

Then I beat 3 eggs and seasoned them with salt, they went over everything to bind the omelet.

I topped it with a handfull of grated Manchego cheese and put a lid on to melt it.

Ingredients for 2:

6 small potatoes

2 spring onions

1 carrot

4 tbsp olive oil

3 eggs

50 g Manchego cheese

Salt, pepper, hot smoked paprika, green paprika, garlic powder