I made a risotto and added the greens about halfway through the cooking process.
It tasted really good. 
Usually I make stamppot raapsteeltjes with greens (mashed potatoes with butter and milk, a bit of cheese, lots of pepper and finally the greens stirred through), but I didn't have enough greens for that now. Perhaps in a couple of weeks.
Not so green anymore is our Bengeltje. The old girl is 20 and still going strong. She looks good for her age doesn't she? She must have a very strong heart, because she's almost totally deaf and usually fast asleep, so if we want to get her attention we have to touch her. And every time that scares the hell out of her. She's also a bit wobbly on her legs sometimes, but hey, we'll be walking with a Zimmer frame if we've reached her age. Apparently 20 cat years equals about 95 human years. If we are lucky enough to be still walking by that time. Go Bengeltje!
Yummo on the Risoto front. I am not in a habit of putting greens in my carbs, although your picture made my mouth water so mayhaps I'll give it a go.
ReplyDeleteBengeltje still looks like a kitten! Oh to be that spry when I'm 95.
I just realized that you are online commenting on my cake disaster at this very moment. I just wanted to say I'm glad you're back. No one else thinks I'm fantasically funny... half think I need therapy, and the other just think I'm strange. Then there's that guy who keeps giving me pamphlets for support groups - you know the ones... children who were deprived of oxygen at birth, HELP - I'm stupid and no one understands me, oh, and my favourite, the SIA - Socially Inept Anonymous. What's up with that?
ReplyDeleteBengeltje looks very good for her age. I hope I will look that good when I get to 95! And raapsteeltjes? They are not even green, they taste awful and should be banned! Or am I thinking of the wrong type of veggie now?
ReplyDeleteJewels,
ReplyDeleteRisotto is one of those recipes I use to throw stuff in that needs to be eaten before it walkes out of the refrigerator. It almost always tastes really good. Apart from the occasional not to be repeated variation. And we are still alive ;-)
Mara,
denk jij niet aan meiraapjes? Van die roodwitte knolletjes? De raapsteeltjes zijn namelijk héél groen (zie foto van mijn oogst). En ook lekker. Lekkerder dan stamppot andijvie vind ik. Meiraapjes daar kan ik ook niks mee.
I love risotto. I don't recognise the 'greens' though what is it,spinach? And 20 years is a good innings even in cat years, she's beautiful.
ReplyDeleteIt's good to see you posting again, Carolina, even if it is about vegetables and cats.
ReplyDeleteYou inspired me! I am going to try and grow some greens. I think the English name for "raapsteeltjes" is mustard greens. They grow fast, don't they?
ReplyDeleteI'm going to try arugula as well (also called rocket in English be cause it jumps out of the ground like a rocket, supposedly.
Greens like these (spinach as well) are wonderful thrown in the water when you cook pasta. Add some lemon and olive oil and you've got dinner.
(Stamppot, such a versatile Dutch dish!)
Nice meeting you, Carolina!
I found a photo of muystard greens. Do they look like raapsteeltjes?
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Baino,
ReplyDeleteThe greens are not spinach but with the help of Miss Footloose I think we can be almost certain they are Mustard Greens. Or closely related to that anyway. They are only available in early spring over here and not widely. They taste somewhat peppery. Somewhere between spinach and rocket or rucola.
IT,
You've missed the one about the ducks?
Miss Footloose,
they could be mustard greens, although they don't taste like mustard to me. But they look very similar. I've grown rucola or rocket in the past. It was a big succes. Idiotproof vegetables! Love them. Bought so many other seeds that I didn't have space for the rocket (ha!) anymore. If the salad isn't a succes, next year we'll have rocket. Good luck with the vegetable patch.
Such a beautiful cat! (and I'm not even a cat person, or perhaps that should be a cat-loving person).
ReplyDeleteI don't think I could live in a country where people mix mustard greens in with mashed potatoes, or where such a dish is called stamppot raapsteeltjes, which sounds like what the protesters at the State Capitol Building were yelling yesterday afternoon.
But congratulations on your continuing gardening and meal-preparing prowess!
RWP,
ReplyDeleteI can assure you that stamppot raapsteeltjes tastes really nice. We Dutch love our stamppot, mashed potatoes with cooked or raw vegetables stirred through it.
With carrots and onions it is called hutspot (I don't like that one). With green garden beans and white flageolet beans it's called blote billetjes in het gras or 'bare bottoms in the grass'. Honestly.
With brown beans it's called stopverf or 'painter's putty' and there is also one with sweet apples and that is called hete bliksem or 'hot lightning'. Perhaps you are right, we live in a culinary very disturbed country.
I love sauerkraut stamppot and kale stamppot -- mashed potatoes mixed with cooked sauerkraut or curly kale, some bacon and some sausage to go with it, and it's fabulous!
ReplyDeleteWell, you may have to be Dutch to appreciate it. It's our soul food ;)
Miss Footloose,
ReplyDeleteOh yes, those are yummy! If my mother cooks them. I can't make edible versions of that myself.
Sauerkraut is yummy but I can't picture it in mashed potatoes... we usually only eat it with sausages. There's only so much culture I can take!
ReplyDeleteMy Scrappycat is 20 years old too! She sleeps most of the time, wakes up to totter out and eat, or sit and look at you and wait for you to carry her up and down the stairs.
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