Pigmeat in lemon juice and sambal goreng sperciebonen

Hmmm, nice dinner: pigmeat baked in peppers and onions, after that stewed in ketjap manis and ketjap benteng together with brown sugar. The vegetables: first made a paste of onions, garlic, sambal, brown sugar and baked it for a few minutes, then add a small cup of water and let it cook for a few minutes.
After that add tomatoes in small parts and cook for 10min. Then you add the beans, stew them for 15min. Add 1/8 part of creamed coconut (block) and cook for 5min. Hmm. delicious.

Rainbow

Yesterday there was a nice rainbow.

Reiki session

Had a very nice reiki session yesterday afternoon.

New transformer ready

The new 1MW transformer is ready for shipment. I tested it today and everything looks good. This one is also very well built by a good craftsman!

Testing new blogger beta

I'm testing the upgraded version of blogger for a few days now. Everything works more in an easy way, but still somethings it doesn't work. Like now: I cannot view my own blog!

Cochem is a very nice city

Cochem is a very nice city. We been on the motocycle many years to this "Moezel" region and still like it very much. Here's a view from the Caste down on the city.

Kiln ready

This is their newest kiln

Nasi Boentjies (Indonesian baked rice with beans)

This is a very nice meal for 4 persons. I cook it many times.
Needed:
1 pack of Lassi fast cooking white rice (8 min. cooking time)
1 "prei", cut in small parts
300 gr. sperziebonen (green beans) cut in halves
300 gr. hamlappen (pig meat), in small parts
2 onions, cut in small parts
3 toes of garlic, pressed
1 pack of Conimex mix for nasi goreng
2 teaspoons of sambal oelek
2 spoons of ketjap manis
2 spoons of arachide oil
100 ml of water
1 teaspoons of Djintan
2 teaspoons of Koenjit
2 teaspoons of Laos

First cook the rice in a pan with a little bit of salt for 7 minutes (not 8=too long). After that, let the water out and let it cool down, stir with a fork now and then to make it loose.
In the meantime, put 100ml in a small pan on the fire until it boils, take it away from the flame and put the pack of conimex nasi mix in it, stir well.
Heat a wok or teflon big pan with the arachide oil, bake the pigmeat until it is a little bit brown. Put all vegetables (beans, prei, garlic, onion, conimex mix) and herbs (djintan, koenjit and laos) and bake well for 5 min.
After that, put the flame low and add the sambal and ketjap. Put the lid on the pan. Leave it like this for 15min.
After that, add the rice, put the flame a little bit higher and stir and bake everything well for a few minutes.
Ready, this is a very nice meal together with fresh atjar and kroepoek.
Selamat makan

New Kiln up and running

Ahh, finally, the kiln we're starting up ran fine overnight. So this morning I had time and didn't have to go to Uden. Nice: I could visit the company that is building a new transformer and could check how far they were with it. Still some work had to be done, but all other work finished so far looked very very nice.
Hopefully they are ready next week so I can test and ship it to Slovenia.

Even MORE rain!

Yesterday I thought I drove through big rain, but today it was even MORE!

BIG TIME rain

Yesterday I drove from Uden back to Hooge Mierde in RAIN RAIN RAIN.

Kiln burned out and passed testrun today

The kiln has been burned out completely and today we focused on improving/testing. With a dummy load of products we solved many items. Tomorrow we're going to try the first heating with a few new products and dorst temperature testrings.

Starting up new kiln

I'm very busy with testing/starting up the new kiln ....tomorrow we'll try to burn it out for the 1st time.

Jiskefet - English Sports

One of the top sketches of Jiskefet.

Getting ready

Didn't have much sleep last night because the birthday party of the singer of our band became a little bit late................but anyway, it was raining very hard this morning so I woke up quite quickly on the motorcycle.

Spare ribs with small potatoes and white cabbage

Hmmm, yesterday I saw nice spare ribs at the butchers. Marion made her white cabbage dish (first boiled cabbage a few minutes, then baked in oil together with onion and yellow paprika, topped with sesame oil) and baked small potatoes (with fresh thyme). I cooked the spareribs by first topping them with honey and then putting them in the hot-air oven at 200 degr. for 40 minutes. After that I put some "herbes de provence" on them. Super dinner.

Hamburger!

Yesterday I wanted to cook something nice and simple: A hamburger with salad and pandan rice.

Step 1: the salad
Ingredients:
1 lettuce, in separate leaves
1 half onion, cut in very small pieces
1 yellow paprika, cut in very small pieces
2 toes of garlic
10 small white onions (the sour ones out of the pot)
1 teaspoon of "herbes de provence"
Some fresh thyme and a handful of fresh parsley
Pepper
Olive oil
Wine vinegar
Wash the lettuce very well, let it dry very well (no water in the salad please!). Cut the toes of garlic over the middle and move it over the inside of the salad bowl. Put the salad in, together with all other ingredients and mix very well. Leave it in the fridge for at least 15 min.

Step 2: The rice
Ingredients:
2 cups (full) of pandan rice
1 teaspoon of dry basil
Cook the rice according to the instruction on the box, after cooking, pour the water away and put the basil in, mix well and leave the pan closed on the table for 15min.

Step 3: The hamburgers
Ingredients hamburger:
2 hamburgers from the butcher (BIG ones)
2 white buns, cut open
2 leaves of lettuce, one for each bun
1 half onion, cut to rings
Mayo
1 teaspoon of "herbes de provence"
Olive oil
Salt
Pepper
Take the hamburgers out of the fridge at least 15min before you put them in the pan, also put a little bit of salt on each side of them.
Take a paper cloth and put a little bit of olive oil on it. Move it over the bottom of the grillpan, only a very little bit is enough. Heat the grillpan a few minutes until is it hot and put the hamburgers and the onion in the pan.
Cut the buns in half and put a leave of lettuce on the lower halves of the buns.
After baking them well in the pan, put each hamburger on a bun, put some herbes de provence and pepper on the hamburger, put some mayo on it and close the bun.

This is it, simple, but tastes very good.