Barbecue

I know what you're thinking. "What, spareribs? Again?!". As usual, there was some sort of celebratory event, that justifies eating this.

M, one of N's friends, came over all the way from Brabant. We wondered what we would have for dinner, and a BBQ seemed like a nice idea, even though we'll be having another BBQ tomorrow at J&L's.

The spareribs were bought pre-marinated and pre-grilled, so they only had to be heated basically. Tasted quite nice.

These were some curry-marinated chicken breast strip skewers. Quite okay, but a little dry. Went well with BBQ-sauce.

These were some cubes of old cheese, wrapped in baconstrips. Simple and nice!

To go with the meats, I had prepared some couscous salad, welded in vegetable stock, mixed with orange and grapefruit parts. Also, I had made grilled pepper strips, marinated in garlic. Then, I made cucumber pickle and tzatziki, using soy yoghurt (not gross at all) and tzatziki mix my parents brought with them from their holiday in Greece. Finally, I made some satay sauce, using soy milk, peanut butter, chili sauce and soy sauce. Traditionally, in Holland, we have sliced baguette with it and a variety of other sauces. I picked Heinz's barbecue-sauce and herbed butter for the baguette.

Now, this gun-shaped device is so cool! It's not 007's latest gadget, or the newest G.I. Joe toy gun. Well, the writing gives it away of course. It's a BBQ fan! You squeeze the red trigger-like thing and the fan starts blowing through its metal nozzle. Pointing it at the charcoal, you direct a jet of oxygen straight into the hot spot. It works great. Saves you waving a piece of paper to supply an undirected amount of oxygen in the charcoal's direction.

There were a lot of leftovers, mainly sides. We'll take them with us to the BBQ @ J&L's.

Spareribs

After having been trying to arrange a dinner for half a year with the guys from our student's tenement, we finally got together last saturday. And it was great! A&K came over from Amsterdam especially.

We had dinner at Mr. Mofongo's. Because we were a large party (10), we couldn't dine a la carte. We had to choose (all 10 of us) from either menu 'Giraffe' or menu 'Zebra', which in the end only seemed to differ in the main courses. We had agreed to take the Giraffe menu.

With spareribs being our favorite already when still living in our flats, six of us took the spareribs. And they were great! The meat had been slightly marinated and was oh so tender. It came with two different dipping sauces and great fries. Apparently, there was some side salad as well. Needless to say, that salad went by unnoticed - why waste precious stomach space with greens when you can have spareribs?

They even were that great, that N & V both had their spare ribs doggybagged.
Being priced at 16,75, they were slightly more expensive than our two other favorite spareribs-restaurants, but with both quality and quantity being very sufficient I think that price was more than justified.

Unlimited Spareribs

Last night we celebrated G's bachelor's party. We had a great day! Toured the canals on a boat with (loads of) beer. Loads of beer obviously needed accompaniment of Endless Amounts of Meat (EAM). One of the restaurants in our city luckily happens to provide for something like that: Unlimited spareribs eating for just € 14,10. Alas, I was too hungry (and too drunk I guess) to remember taking a picture of the first plate of ribs I started with. So, to have proof of having eaten EAM, I decided to take a picture of the bucket filled with the remains of multiple plates of ribs. Even though I was wise enough to skip on the sides, I just couldn't eat more than one plate and an additional half piece. Well, nevertheless it provided sufficient foundation for a subsequent night of partying.

For today, I'll just try recovering from my hangover…