• Bobotie – baked minced meat with egg-mixture topping. It reminded me of empanadas / other meat pies. 7/10. Recipe here
• Milk tart – Self-explanatory. It’s a sweet milk concoction. Similar in taste to the arroz con leche without rice. 9/10. Recipe here

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We cooked the following dishes:

• Salat katzutz – Israeli salad or Arabic salar. Very similar to the other salads in the regions I’ve tasted. 7/10. Recipe here.
• Shakshuka – eggs in tomatoes. Quite a popular dish in brunch places these days. 8/10. Recipe here.
• Babka – sweet bread. Ours was with chocolate. 9/10. Recipe here.

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It’s been a while since I last posted but we have been cooking a lot since then. Let’s start with Djibouti:

• Samosas – very similar to the South Asian one but this one comes with a sauce. 7/10. Recipe here
• Skoudehkaris – lamb rice dish. I always love rice dishes and this one was great. 9/10. Recipe here
• Banana Fritters – seems like banana fritters are very common in this region of the world. 7/10. Recipe here

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• Chicken shawarma – chicken wrapped with vegetables and yogurt sauce. Tasted even better than the ones you can buy in restaurants. 10/10. Recipe here.
• Luqaimat – fried balls in syrup. We made a mess here, difficult to make them round. 5/10. Recipe here.

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• Fondue – melted cheese sauce served with vegetables and meat. 9/10. Recipe here.
• Heidelbeerenwahe – blueberry pie. Our filling became too liquidy. 7/10. Recipe here.

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• Aji de Gallina – chicken curry Peruvian-style. It was interesting to put bread in curry together with blended spices. 9/10. Recipe here.
• Ceviche – fish cooked in citrus. In our case, we didn’t really want to eat barely cooked fish so we cooked them a bit before putting them in. 9/10. Recipe here.

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• Potatoes au Gratin – Potato with tons of cheese. 9/10. Recipe here.
• Coq au vin – Chicken in wine. The alcohol taste disappears when you cook it long like this. 9/10. Recipe here.
• Pain perdu – French toast. We originally planned to make a chocolate mousse but this turned out to be too difficult to make given our time. We then resorted to the famous and easy french toast. 9/10.

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It’s been a while since I uploaded anything. Just have been forgetting to update the site. I’ve been to Morocco before and I really enjoyed my trip there. In Amsterdam, there is a famous restaurant called Bazar and I used to eat there a lot.

• Chicken Tagine – chicken stew in spices. It’s a bit sweet due to the cinammon and honey. I’ve tasted this before in Morocco and it was great. Ours were ok but not quite like the original. 8/10. Recipe here.
• Couscous – couscous with vegetables, almonds and chickpeas. I have always loved and cooked couscous. 9/10. Recipe here.
• Meskouta Orange cake – the cake had a very subtle orange hint. For someone who doesn’t like orange in desserts, I really liked it. 9/10. Recipe here.

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• Pastel de Choclo – corn and beef cake. Enjoyed this one, good mixture of sweet and savory. 8/10. Recipe here.
• Pastel de Jaiba – crab cake. I’m not really used to eating crab so this required a lot of effort but it tasted great. 7/10. Recipe here.

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• Köttbullar – Swedish meatballs. Like Ikea, we also added mashed potatoes and raspberry jam (didn’t have lingonberry). I made the mistake of added too much flour to the sauce, making it super thick. But, I loved it still. 9/10. Recipe here.
• Kladdkaka – sticky chocolate cake. Reminded me of volcano cakes. 9/10. Recipe here.

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