Balsamic Onions and more food pics

I’m doing this thing where I try to be a vegetarian every other week. This is my second week of just eating vegetarian food, and it works fine. At first I thought I would get meat-obsessed in the week where it’s ok to eat meat. But I didn’t. I even made vegetarian food a couple of days last week.

So the other night I made Baked Ziti – actually I didn’t, cos I couldn’t get any ziti, so I made Baked Penne. It was good. But I also wanted to make something else. And this is where the Balsamic Onions come in. And I highly recommend them. I think they’ll be really good with meat (must try that next week).

Here’s what you need: 1 lb of shallots, 6 tsp cane sugar, 1 cup balsamic vinegar, 1/2 cup vegetable stock

Peel the shallots. In a saucepan (or whatever you have) mix everything, and let it come to a boil. Let it boil for 8-10 minutes, stirring occasionally. If you’re feeling stuffy, put your head over the pan, I’m sure it’ll clear your sinuses right up. It’s a strong smell. Take it off the heat, taste with salt & pepper. That’s what it said, but I didn’t feel like tasting burning hot vinegar, so I just added a bit of S&P.

I’ve been eating them with bread and cheese. I have this cheese that’s a bit too strong for me, but it’s delicious with the onions. The cheese is called Grube-cheese. I know, that tells you nothing. The thing is, the cheeses are taken down into limestonemines, where they mature. To be more specific, these limestonemines. Tonight I’ll try them in a salad, they do kinda come with their own dressing.

Here’s some more food pics I had on my camera.

Curry-scented meatballs with cabbage and apples. This was one of those dishes which turn out to be much better then expected. Always a nice surprise.

Giant M&M Cookies. Yummy, yummy, yummy!!! My friend Louise got the recipe for these, and has made them several times since. The recipe says they’re best eaten the same day they’re baked. No problem!!

Typical example of how we eat hot dogs here in Denmark.

This lasagna was actually made with 2 different meat sauces. Not that the recipe called for it. But I had some leftover sauce from this other fancy lasagna I made. So I had a layer of fancy sauce, and 2 layers of, well just your basic meat sauce. And then I served it with some oven-roasted butternut squash. It was really delicious. BTW, the hand belongs to my friends Liza.

No more today.

Hej Hej,

Dianna

Tags: balsamic, Cooking, food, grube, hot dogs, lasagna, limestonemines, onions, shallots, vegetarian