Good things in life are sweet

July 1, 2010 - Delicous & ENGLISH & Natey&Cola - (0) COMMENTs

Tootsie roll, Reese’s cup, 100 Grand, Hershey’s kisses, Butterfinger, Reese’s (peanut butter) pieces, 3 Musketeers, Almond Joy….

Can you follow me? Does everyone know what I am talking about?

AMERICAN CANDY and CHOCOLATE….! I didn’t know that I love it that much! I think I never had it really or I never knew what Nathan grew up on…never really knew which chocolates came from England and which from the States….but now I am hooked!!
Yes, wow, a real competitor to my beloved German chocolate sweets.

Nathan and I were (almost) fighting…no actually we have been fighting over this bag:

A little bit of everything ‘American chocolates’.
It was a little gift from my manager who recently came back from a short holiday in the USA.

You should know that I am not very good at sharing when it is chocolate. When I received the bag I had a night out and Nathan stayed at home. He asked me, if he could have a few pieces. (!!!!)
Pardon? Hello? I just got this bag, don’t even have time to look at it, because I’m going out, and he wants a piece BEFORE I even get to it? NO! Hell, no, how can he even be so brave and ask?
Well, this caused the first little argument. Haha.

I needed the right moment to take the bag of sweets on my lap, and the right moment to be in the mood for it to eat some. If you know what I mean.

Mr Natey didn’t like this at all. He said I was mean, very mean to say he could not have something from this bag which had all of his childhood favourites in it. He said I cannot leave it lying around, not eating anything. Mean mean mean. *giggle*
How about a bit of self-control Mr CandyPopcornOholic? :P
Well, I didn’t say he could not have anything forever…just for the moment, no.

In the end (I gave in and) he had his first piece before I had my try.
BUT…HE KEPT ASKING FOR MORE AND MORE!!

We argued…a lot…other people argue about important things (like which TV channel to watch, lol), we argue about who can have which kind of chocolate and in which time frame. I mean, if I didn’t control “the USA bag” we would have eaten everything in one go. I want good things to last. My man doesn’t understand why and for what I want to save them for.
Well, maybe to keep the delicious moments for longer than just one or two days? Especially when we cannot just go to the next shop to buy more of these….they don’t sell them here.

I am so bad. I just remembered that it was ME who grew up with a sister and who (should have) learned to share things. Nathan is a single child…but so well behaved and so patient when it comes to sharing. I tell ya, for sure this earth’s chocolate has led to civil wars back then. I am sure! Evil stuff…

I NOW UNDERSTAND WHY HE WAS SO MAD AT ME….mad for the awesome chocolates. Because – they – are – so – goooood! Australia can go home. England can go home. A lot of countries can go home. American old school chocolates are just so very delicious and special in the taste. How could I have missed trying them the last two time when I was in the States? *wondering*

The Hershey’s kisses with the white chocolate and the cookie pieces in it are just to melt-away! So tiny but so good.
The tootsie roll reminds me of “Toffee” from Germany. Reese’s pieces are so much better than M&M’s (they look the same, but the filling is peanut butter instead of chocolate).

Who would have known that I became such a peanut butter fan?

I haven’t had Nutella for over two years now. Can you believe it?

That is what happens if you live your life with an American cowboy.
Just weird how his mother said to me once that he never had such a craving for sweets? He is madly involved in the choco-sweetness business.

You might not believe it, but we have had the choc bag for a few weeks now and there are still around 12 pieces in it.

Tonight we were a lovely couple and shared an “Almond Joy” chocolate bar. What a joy!

Yesterday we went food shopping and guess what we saw? A long bar of “Tootsie Roll”, “3 Musketeers”, “100 Grand”, and another one that I forgot the name of; all next to the check-out of an IGA store.
This is brand new. We shop there quite often and they never had those. But now, just now, after we had this American chocolates bag. Weird!!!!

Back home in Australia

June 12, 2010 - A-life & Delicous & ENGLISH & Visuelles - (0) COMMENTs

…but you already know that.

Just a few more days and I will have my photos sorted…sigh…1800 plus a lot (!) of short movies.

Still adjusting to the ‘old’ westerners life. I don’t like chips (french fries) anymore, I don’t even crave potatoes, and I hardly finish a meal plate. Hello? Stomach?

I guess my body needs a while to get back into the ‘weird’ foods that we western people eat (breads or yeast dough stuff, cheese, cream, deep-fried things, etc.).

I already miss the daily fruit salad, the rice dishes, those fabulous coconut and fresh fruit shakes, the Lombok coffee….and my beloved gado-gado!

Ok, here comes a first glance of, of course something mouth watering; Indonesian food, my favourite dish, Gado Gado ( a vegetable salad with Tofu/Tempe and Peanut sauce):

My new breakfast love

May 12, 2010 - Delicous & ENGLISH - (2) COMMENTs

Steel Cut Oatmeal!
Slow cooking has always been my favourite method, but I didn’t know that the taste of quick oats and steel cut oats are so very different. The latter reminds me of “Milchreis” (rice pudding), but one can still taste the grain of the oats. It is not too mushy (like quick oats can be)…I looove it!
I don’t mind cooking it for 35 minutes in the morning, because you don’t need to stir it during cooking. It is just like rice…you leave it simmer until it is done. During cooking time I can take a shower and get ready. Yeah, I have a new favourite breakfast!

Oh, I dressed my oatmeal very classy only with brown sugar and cinnamon.

How to cook steel cut oatmeal:

Melt
—1 tablespoon of margarine (I used Nuttelex Olive)
in a pan and add
—1 cup of steel cut oats
and roast at high heat for about 2 minutes (while stiring)


Add
—3 cups of boiling water
and reduce heat to lowest and let simmer for 25 minutes (without lid)
[now take a shower or get ready for the day]


—Add 1/2 cup of milk (I used regular soy milk) and a dash of salt
fold milk in and let simmer for another maximum of 10 minutes

Too easy – Done!

Put a portion of oatmeal in a cereal bowl and add brown sugar and cinnamon of your liking and ENJOY!

Unfortunately, I could not find steel cut oats at the regular supermarkets here in Perth. They seem to sell it only at health food stores or at whole-food shops. I bought mine at Kakulas Brothers in Northbridge. If you know of other places (as Northbridge is not very close to where I live), please leave me a comment.

A typical breakfast

April 28, 2010 - Delicous & ENGLISH & Visuelles - (0) COMMENTs

Fruehstuecksvielfalt.
What’s for breakfast? Everything!

Plum.
Oatmeal.
Green Tea.
German Pumpernickel with jam.
Homemade Bananacake.

Fotocollage vom Jubilaeumsdinner

August 27, 2009 - Delicous & Natey&Cola & Visuelles - (5) COMMENTs

Schoen wars! Bei unserem Lieblings-Sushi-nesen Hanami in Mt. Lawley und beim Eismann nebenan. Obwohl es mich gerade mit ner dicken Erkaeltung erwischt hatte, wollte ich das Cola-Natey-Jubilaeumsdinner, was der Herr des Hauses reserviert hatte, nicht sausen lassen. Wir hatten Glueck und bekamen einen der zwei begehrten Tische, wo man an einem niedrigen Tisch sitzt und die Fuesse in einer Art Luke unter dem Tisch freihaengend baumeln. Schuhe sind nicht gestattet. Man sitzt auf nem Kissen auf ner Art holzvertaefelten erhoehten Buehne im Restaurant. Sehr stylisch und oft ausgebucht; aber wir hatten Glueck unser 5-Jahres-Jubilaeum in unserem Lieblingsrestaurant an unserem LIeblingstisch geniessen zu koennen. Und nun, lass es Sushi regnen… Vorspeise Hanahmi Special Salad, Pork Goyza, dann Assorted Sushi (21 Stuecke), Avocado Roll (10 Stuecke), Unagi (Aal, 5 Stuecke), extra Reis (haetten wir gut weglassen koennen), und gruenen Tee mit geroesteten Reiskoernern.

Das letzte Bild zeigt, das die Augen groesser waren, als der Magen…oder es lag daran, dass wir beide gesundheitlich nicht so 100% fit waren. Mit ner Erkaeltung hat man ja meist nicht so viel Hunger. Der Salat zur Vorspeise war von der Groesse her schon ne Hauptspeise und die Avocado im Salat hat ordentlich satt gemacht.
Unsere Sushi Reste wurden sehr nett verpackt. Wir bekamen noch neue Sojasosse in kleinen Tuetchen und frischen Ingwer dazu. Am naechsten Tag hatten wir also noch mal genug uebrig fuer einen sushi-lunch.
Ich hatte die Sushi-rollen beim Hanami kleiner in Erinnerung…diesmal waren die kaum als Ganzes in den Mund zu schieben. Hier bekommt man wirklich nicht nur beste Qualitaet, sondern auch ordentlich grosse Sushi Rollen. Toll!

Was hier anscheinend anderes ist, als in Deutschland oder in den USA, ist, dass in fast alle (oder sogar alle?) Maki-Rollen Mayonaise hinein getan wird. Finden wir nicht so toll, daher gibt es von uns immer die z.B. Avo-Maki-ohne Mayo Bestellung. Ob das wohl drueben in Sydney auch das mayo-verseuchte sushi gibt?

Der Eisbecher nannte sich ‘Hot Fudge Sundae’ und ich sage euch, seit dem ich den gegessen habe, will ich hot fudge jeden Tag!!
Das Zeug ist sowas von lecker. Der Mann konnte, mal wieder, nicht verstehen, dass ich das jetzt erst zum ersten Mal gegessen habe. Ich auch nicht. Fudge ist sowas wie ne warme klebrige caramel-toffige Sosse a la Schokolade, die einfach suechtig macht.
Eis essen ist hier uebrigens eine nicht so guenstige Angelegenheit, da der Kugelpreis bei um die $3.50 anfaengt. Meine 3-Kugel-Manier aus Deutschland wuerde mich hier arm machen. Fuer drei Kuegeln Eis bekomme ich ja schon eine grosse Maki-roll mit zehn grossen Sushi-Happen, hehe.
Der Eisbecher war mit $6 (eine Kugel) aber reichlich gefuellt und ein guter Deal.