#reiko and haakon

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Hi it’s Reiko again. 😘

Today was very warm, and summer have truly arrived to Amsterdam. So I decided to make a dish from South Asia called “Gapao rice”.

Ingredients

- ground chicken

- Whatever veggie you have (but normally paprika, eggplant, onion)

- Basil

- Chopped garlic

- Oyster source

- Fish source

- Rice.

Yum yum yummy 🤤

Side dish: Egg soup 🥣

It’s so so good and feel like you are in Thailand 🇹🇭

Try it!! We ate so much a usual 🤫

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Karaage night 🙏🥳❤️🤤

Karaage 唐揚げ is one of the most popular dish in japan. Everyone likes this.

You should marinade chicken with the ingredients below at least 30mins

- soy sauce 3 tablespoons

- garlic and ginger

- mirin (this is kind of sweetener) 1 tablespoon

- sake 1 tablespoon

- nutmeg

I also made potato salad.

Boil potato and mush after and add salt and paper.

I used cucumbers and salami and sour cream.

Yum 🤤

Karaage:

You Marianne the chicken with the ingredients for at least 30 mins.

Cover with the corn starch (you should wipe the ingredients away right before you start frying otherwise the chicken won’t be crispy as you want)

Heat the oil until you see the bobble when you put the chopsticks in the pan

Put those chicken and fry until the chicken becomes brown (10-15mins) with a medium heat.

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Reiko and I worked together! And we made some homemade salsa, mango salsa and guacamole! Meat, cheese and jalapeños on to make it complete ✊🙌 oh and nachos and corona beer in corona times 👐

If you love tacos - you need to try it with mango salsa 💃🏼 - it’s soooo good! Takes forever to make all the salsas but it’s sooooo worth it! 11/10

Peace ☮️

-H

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SATURDAY FTW =)

SATURDAY! WEEEEEEEEE!!

ok, so its Saturday, you spend a lot of time in bed, just enjoying the sleep - it feels AMAZING, your woman comes into the room, because well.. She woke up a few hours ago, spent her time jogging, had a yoga session in the living room, made an amazing breakfast, cleaned the entire apartment and are now asking, i repeat ASKING YOU, if it is ok that she vacuum the bedroom. 

You bleary eyed, turn over, and look a bit confused, and answers “yeah.. sure” while you try to find your phone like a blind man, you finally reach the phone to see that the clock is fucking 1130. Oh god... 

yeah... that just happened. 

here is a photo of Reiko`s breakfast - banana pancakes, whisked cream, blueberry, strawberries, banana and some coffee. 

I know... I know... 

Superwoman strikes again.

take care, and if you are a lazy weekend morning person like me, get out of bed already! hehe

peace,

- H

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Hi it’s Reiko. Today is my time to cook🤓

Where is the beautiful weather? The typical Dutch weather has returned... Grey and a bit cold wind making us crave some warm dishes.

So I decided to make some Japanese comfort dishes which you can only eat at home (like your moms food / 家庭料理 in Japanese)

Here is what I made

- Sesame oil salad (my favorite 😋)

- Mackerel and Chinese cabbage miso taste

- Fried salmon (鮭の竜田揚げ)

- Spicy shrimp (海老チリ)

- Rice (of course🤪)

All the dishes above needs some bouillon. In Japanese dish, it’s so important to have them (だし/ dashi) I really recommend to have some bouillon such an bonito bouillon or chicken bouillon. And some ingredients are also very important such as soy source, mirin, cooking sake, etc etc.

Hope you enjoy reading my first blog.

Next time I will cook some dishes from my region Osaka. 😋

✌🏼

-Reiko

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You might be sitting at home thinking 💭 what did Reiko and Haakon have for dinner today!? Well, we ordered pizza 🍕 because we were too lazy to make anything and also, pizza is sooooo good 😌

Did not take any photos of the pizzas, but they all were good (we ordered 3, because we wanted extra so we had for lunch tomorrow also haha 😂)

Anyway, hope your day is going splendidly and that you also ate something yummy 🤤

Peace out,

-H

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Its Haakon’s time to SHINE ✨

And the other day I did. A bit, I think 🤔 at least Reiko was very happy and said it tasted super good, so trust her when I say, it was good 😊

What is it, take a look

Basically this is oven baked potatoes, asparagus which also is oven baked with homemade meatballs in a coconut 🥥 milk based sauce 😱😍 and some bread on the side paired with white whine for her and I had some beer I think 🧐

Ok, so you might be wondering what does it taste what kind of spices did you use, and how did you use the coconut 🥥?

Well, I used soooo much spice, coriander seeds, chili flakes and chili powder, salt, pepper, cinnamon, cumin, something something and something more, I think if you google Gordon Ramsey - meatballs in amazing fragrant coconut broth, you will get the exact recipe I used :)

It might not look perfectly alike the ones Gordon made, but holy hell it taste FIRE! 🔥 so much taste, it’s kinda spicy with a kick to it without it being spicy 🥵 it’s amazing! Recommend you all to try it!

Make sure to make more than you think, because it’s so good you’d want more! 🙌

Ok, I’m out. Peace. ✌🏼

-H

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Reiko burger - Vegan burger.

Haakon burger - non vegan

Both was soooo good!!

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My first post

Hello guys, and welcome to my first blog post. 

My name is Haakon, I am 30 years this June (WOOHOO) and I just moved to my better half in Amsterdam, her name is Reiko. Now that I am in Amsterdam, Im currently applying for jobs, and the stress of moving to a new country and not knowing the language is hitting me a bit, but Ive lived in different parts of the world before so I should be alright. Right now I am just very ready to start working somewhere, dont even care what I do or anything like that, just need a job. 

anyway, you can read more about me, in the about page of the blog. I hope you enjoy your stay, and that my blog can lead to some sort of enjoyment. 

Peace out,

- H