Stamp Collectors :): 04/01/2011

17 április 2011

Folk song just a bit different

This song is originally a folk song, I might even remember learning it in school...?!
Apparently now there is a band in Hungary whose specialty is to re-make the folk songs, here is a great example.
For those who do not understand Hungarian it is a very kind song about a girl who is thinking of a guy, who became a solder... birds, sugar... cute song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPeqf0gU-tY

the original:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHe-GwMsSMU

The Lunch of the week…!!!

My soon to be obsession with good food, good quality ingredients and great flavors created an amazing lunch yesterday.

Basically our Friday was a bit of a “oh we don’t have anything to do, what shell we do with ourselves???” and to address the problem Mike suggested to go for a walk at the seaside.

There is a place called East Cost Park, it is a long stretch along the sea, a nice pedestrian walkway… we have never been there in the evening so I agreed to go.

We dropped off from the taxi at the entrance of the park and we agreed to buy some beers or something to bring along.
The shopping center was having a book fair and of course that attracts Mike like honey attracts bees… so we stopped by bought some books and then we headed down to the supermarket.

The supermarket is rather on the high end, but this never stops me from going in and looking around because many times there are great deals and sale.

In this gourmet supermarket a found a very nice French Camembert:

It is very rich, heavy, flavorful… probably tons of calories but once in a while I think you can treat yourself with such a special food.
I am usually on the internet surfing the different cooking sites looking for exiting, new, modern recipes and when I saw this particular cheese, a recipe I saw from Lorraine Pascale (English bakery chef who used to be a top model – go figure???) just jumped into my mind. I did not need more I happily bought the camembert.
I was glad to have this cheese so I dedicated our Saturday lunch to it. I prepared the meal of the week.

I baked my very first home made bread (and of course I burned my arm as usual, I guess in 10 years time there will not be a spot on my arms without some type of a burn mark :( ).

The bread turned out to be amazing, heavy because of the wholemeal flour, crunchy and crispy outside and soft inside, just amazing.
In another baking tray I baked the “flavoring part” which continued the following: 2 whole head of garlic (chop off the top part and put it into the try with heads down!), olive oil, butter, fresh rosemary sticks, bay leaves (3-5 leaves), salt, pepper and honey.
In the future I will leave out the honey, but that is optional.
This mixture should be baked for about 30min or so, the garlic should soften and should become creamy.
The whole oily herb tray will just smell awesome; you know it will taste just as fantastic.
The last part is the camembert which you need to unpack, I wrapped around a mini tin foil tray as I was aware that it’ll leak out. Cut an X shape on the top of the cheese and place it into the oven too.
Doesn’t take too long and the cheese will become like a mini fondue, creamy, velvety, strong dominant flavor… great food.

So the lunch should be the freshly baked bread, herb oil, with roasted rosemary and/or garlic and then the cheese… bite by bite… You will not be able to complement it enough!!!

Just amazing!!!! Here are the pictures: