One bite

We had bread, cheese, nuts, celery, and fruits for dinner the other day, and I randomly added a slice of grape on top of my gorgonzola. I'd already cut the bread into 16ths.

It was delicious~

Tiramisu v.2 and 3

Here are the tiramisus I made, using the same recipe as last time's.

Instead of putting it in cups, I just made a pan of it. I used a bigger pan than planned for, so the actual pieces were super thin.

This one I made while at an apartment near the sea. I had forgotten to bring chocolate powder, so I took a couple of speculoos cookies and crumbled that to sprinkle on top.

Here it is, served with an additional speculoos for decorative purposes.

Soup and Tofu

I made lunch today, for a bunch of people (we were 7 around the table).

Potato Soup:
This was based on a soup one of my teachers used to make which was delicious. However, I didn't have the recipe, and tried making it from memory... there wasn't enough potato, and there was too much spices.

Since it wasn't quite there yet, I won't post up the recipe.

Sweet and Sour Tofu:

I tried imitating my aunt's tofu. Again, not quite there yet. My cousin helped me a lot.

Italian

A pasta salad I made because I went on a trip where there wasn't much vegetarian food available, so I brought my own. Simply penne pasta, eggplants, fresh spinach, feta cheese, with a side of tomatoes and kidney beans. The dressing is homemade, with mustard, salt, sugar, pepper, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar.

Then today, my aunt made homemade pizza ^^

The trick for the aromatic oil (much like those found in restaurants). The first time I made the oil, it wasn't very spicy. Actually it barely was. So this time around, I took a certain amount of oil, and crushed dried chillies into it. I also added some dried-up rosemary, but it wasn't very fragrant. Covered it and left it to marinate for over a week, then strained the oil into the bottle. So this oil was spicy, but not too much.

I also recommend keeping a branch of rosemary whole, and stuffing it into the bottle for decorative purposes. Mine isn't very pretty, because the only rosemary I had was half-dead and dried up. But it still serves its purpose.