Cinnamon Challenge

On monday we posted an announcement of todays Cinnamon Challenge on our blog and on Facebook. We challenged all our classmates to join us in our challenge and we hoped many of them would join us, so we could have a real cinnamon-party!
Unfortunately, nobody wanted to join us... Where they afraid? Are we hated? We will never know...
But, two of our friends happened to be free at noon today, so we made them join us. There was a little blackmail involved, maybe... ;) But hey, we had two more victims now!

So, here's the promised video of  the challenge with Anne, Lindy, Tim and Ruben. Yes, it takes a while before we get to the action.. but it's a video! (the spoken language in the video is Dutch by the way ;) )

And finally some pictures of how we felt after eating the Cinnamon... ;)

Nausea attack

Damn that nasty cinnamon!

Damn, that was hilarious!! And nasty...

Yeah, just ate the cinnamon like a boss. 

Well, there will probably be one next and final post on this blog to show you some bloopers and struggles making our blogposts.. 

See you next time!

Cinnamon Challenge? Hell yeah!!

Hi there!


Today's blogpost is about the cinnamon challenge. The cinnamon challenge is really an awesome challenge. Haven't heard of it yet? Here's how it works:
1. Take a teaspoon, not the really small one, but the slightly bigger one...
2. Fill it with cinnamon
3. Put the spoon in your mouth
4. Try to swallow the cinnamon without drinking any liquids. 
5. Good luck!!


This wednesday, we dare the people from our study and everyone else who wants to take the challenge, to do the cinnamon challenge with us. 
Where? In front of building P at Tilburg University, next to the pond. 
When? Wednesday 04-04 at noon (12.00)
Do I have to bring anything? Nope! We will provide spoons and cinnamon. 
What's in in for me? Well, do you have a minute? A big laugh, eternal fame, you can defenitely laugh at other people (not too hard though, or you will choke in your cinnamon ;) ), be a hero, you can tell everyone you did the cinnamon challenge and best off all, you can win a PRIZE! Offcourse, you will be on our blog, because this whole challenge will be filmed and you will recieve an actual proof of participation!


Want to join us on wednesday? We would be verry happy and of course we will participate in the challenge! The more, the merrier :)
How do you join? Leave a comment on this blogpost telling us that you will join us and be there on 4-4 at noon!


Need some examples? Here they are:

And it is actually possible!! Watch him go:

Want to see more video's? Just go to youtube, search 'cinnamon challenge' and enjoy!


See you all on wednesday!

Review soft ice-cream!

Most of you may have noticed that the weather the past few days was lovely. Reconsidering it, calling it lovely would be the understatement of the century because it was simply awesome!

One can do several things on a sunny day. Among which a visit to the beach or the park could be an excellent option. By taking time to undertake one of the activities mentioned above you'll feel relaxed and you'll be able to study better after you have had a good night rest obviously ;)

Chilling in the park is nice. However... there are some side effects you might have to deal with. One of these side effects is the intense desire to eat an ice-cream. There's a simple solution to this problem though. Just go and eat an ice-cream!

So, that's what we did after we had spend an afternoon at the Leypark, Tilburg. The nearest place where we were able to get one was at Etenstijd (http://www.etenstijd.nl/).

 We did not have too many options to choose from so we agreed on eating a soft ice-cream. Choosing a soft ice-cream however offered us the chance to make a decision and have a topping of coloured sprinkels, peanut crunchy or no topping at all. We advice you not to think to deeply about it because chances are, they forget your choice..

What we looked like

The soft ice-cream was really nice and refreshing in the passionate Dutch sun. We could not say the same about the ice-cream cone. Sadly, they use those cheap ass tasteless type of cones. Since we did not want to be rude we sacrified ourselves and ate it.

What's for dinner in Holland?

When you ask that question, there is a big chance it will be one of the following dishes or a variation to these dishes... 


The Dutch love potatoes very much. The average Dutch family eats potatoes at least 4 times a week. They eat them in quite some variations: Baked, deep-fried, boiled, mashed, they will put them in tinfoil and put them in the oven... Many variations to one simple piece of food: the potato. 
I do not eat potatoes that often, I am not a big fan. I prefer pasta or rice, but for this blogpost I cooked two typical dutch meals so I can show them to you. I think these two meals are by far the two most popular Dutch meals. 


Here we go, the first one is:
Boiled potatoes, boiled veggies and a piece of meat. 
I think a typical Dutch family will eat this meal about 4 times a week, really. There will be some variation in veggies and meat, but always: boiled potatoes. 

Cooked way too much potatoes, whoops!

Would you like to prepare a Dutch meal? Here's how you do it:
Get a big pan and fill it with water, put some peeled potatoes in it and some salt and wait for it to cook... When you can easily prick a fork in the potatoes (after about 20 minutes), they are done and ready to serve. 

Do the same thing with the veggies.
Finally: bake some meat, make a sauce to put on your veggies, and dinner can be served!

And here's Dutch meal number two: Stamppot!!
This will be the same as meal number one, but the difference is: you mash it all together. Wait, really? Yeah, really... 


I am not a big fan of 'stamppot', but I came up with a variation I actually like very much. 
Again, boiled potatoes:

But now: break some cashews into pieces and take a piece of French cheese and chop that into little pieces. 

Mix those two ingredients with a little milk, the boiled potatoes and some raw endive. Mash it all together!
It will end up looking like this:

This may not seem very appetizing, but it really is. 
I would say, give it a try! It's really simple, takes about 20 minutes and you can say you ate a typical Dutch meal. Enjoy!

Review: Emmi's Swiss fondue

Hi there!

Today a review on one of my favourite meals: cheese fondue.
In Dutch supermarkets you'll find about three brands of cheese fondue. The cheese fondue I have reviewed is one of them:

Emmi's Swiss Fondue 

This fondue comes in packages of 400 grams. The box says one package is enough for 2 persons, but I bought two for two persons, you can never have enough cheese!

To heat the cheese, I put it in a fondue pan and put it on the stove. In about 8-10 minutes your cheese fondue will be ready to be served. Be sure to stirr it well while heating it or a lot off the cheese will stick at the bottom of the pan.. waste of cheese, we do not want thant to happen, right? While you are heating your fondue, you can put some bread in the oven and chop some veggies in pieces, so you can dip them in the cheese later. 

Once you have finished heating your cheese, be sure to keep it warm while eating. 

I always put in one of these things:

This cheese fondue seems to have a really nice stucture, it isn't too soft, so all the cheese would dripp of your bread and not too thick. Looks good!

What I use to dip in the cheese is simply some bread and some raw cauliflower. 

Just as easy as that! You could also dip small tomatoes, carrots, broccoli, ham, salami, whatever you like! I always like to keep it simple, for me it is all about the cheese. 

Now, let's put a piece of bread on a fork and dip it... 

Looking good, right?

The taste of the cheese is delicious!! It's a perfect mixture of cheese and wine, neither of them is dominant. The cheese still has a nice structure, it's fluid with no chunks in it. If there is something I really hate... cheese fondue with chunks, yikes!

Be sure so stir the cheese about every 4-5 minutes, so it won't stick to the bottom of your pan too much and  to avoid a crust on the cheese. 

After about half an our, we were done eating. We had eaten about three quarters off the cheese, so I would recommend byuing two packages, instead of one.

The price of one package of Emmi's cheese fondue is about 4 euro's. So a simple meal of cheese fondue for 2-3 persons will cost you about 10 euro's. Maybe not a student-friendly price, but it is so good, I love to pay the 10 euro's!

I really really liked this Emmi cheese fondue! I have tasted some other brands in the past, but this one really stands out. The taste is delicious and well balanced, the structure is good (no chunks!), it's just yummie!

I would really recommend this easy meal if you do have a lot of time to cook, but still want a delicious meal with a real Swiss taste. 

Love it!

I hope you found this review useful and I really to hope to see you next time!

Chicken and Spinach Pasta

A tasty pasta dish!

INGREDIENTS

• 4 slices of chicken filet
• 450 gram of fresh spinach
• 1 small jar of green Pesto
• 1 small bag of grated Cheese
• 400 gram of Pasta (any type)
• 1 small bag of Pine Nuts

Preparation

Start of with roasting the pine nuts in a dry frying pan. Slice the chicken into small cubes. Cook the pasta as recommended on the package. Bake the chicken in a frying pan till it is golden. Add the fresh spinach and stir for a short moment while adding a few teaspoons (depending on how much you like green pesto) of green pesto. Allow the grated cheese to melt over your mixture. Then add the pasta and garnish it of with the pine nuts.

Enjoy!

Recipe in a video: Oreo Bonbons

Finally, there it is!
Watch the video below to see how you can make some lovely oreo bonbons.

A little warning, this picture below really applies to me ;)

That being said, enjoy the video!

I hope you liked te video!
If you have any questions or requests for other video's, recipe's or reviews, please leave a comment.

See you next time :)

Eating Tosti's @ Esplanade

This week we went to eat toti's at Esplanade in Tilburg, Netherlands. Esplanade is a restaurant at the Tilburg University campus. They have great food there most of the time and te price of the food is very good. 

(Esplanade Restaurant)

The service is very fast. We went in at 13.35, the waiter came at 13.40, we got our drinks at 13.44 and our food at 13.51. I would say that is really quick! That also makes me wonder, if our tosti's can be served so fast, how freshly made are they? Are they pre-made and do they only need to be re-heated, or are the cooks just really, really fast? I was wondering about that, while drinking my fastly delivered diet coke.

Well, how about those tosti's, right? You may ask yourself: what on earth is a 'tosti'? Well, tosti is the Dutch name for two roasted slices of bread with melted cheese in between and mostly some ham or salami. At the Esplanade they also sell a veggie one with goat cheese, walnuts and honey. For this review I ate a tosti with ham and cheese, and Anne ate the veggie one. They respectively cost 3.00 and 3.50 euro's.
As said above, the tosti's were served quite fast and they looked very tasty!

(Anne's veggie tosti)

(Lindy's ham and cheese tosti)

That looks tasty, right? The tosti's are served with a small cup of mixed salad with some dressing and the ham and cheese tosti also comes with a little bowl of Joppiesauce. Again, a weird Dutch name for sauce with some small pieces of onion, tasting a bit like mayonaise with curry, jummy!

The taste of the tosti's was very good. They were a bit on the cold side, they should have been roasted a bit longer. The amount of cheese and ham on my tosti was perfect, as the goat cheese and walnuts on Anne's tosti. The honey could have been more present on Anne's tosti, she didn't taste much of it. Overall, the tosti's are quite nice.

But then there was that small cup of mixed salad. I took a bite and tasted someting really slimy in my mouth, yuk!!!!! I swallowed it - I do not spit out things in public ;) - and looked at my bowl of salad and saw the following:

Those slimy green things were once in their life little pieces of cucumber... but it looks like they have died 2 days ago. Nasty! Needless to say, I did not finish the rest of my salad.

In conclusion: we had a great time, we had a great laugh about the nasty pieces of cucumber and the tosti's tasted pretty good. The cucumber on the onther hand: nasty! We will definitely not eat those cute bowls of salad the next time ;)

Strawberry Mascarpone Trifle

A recipe for a lovely strawberry dessert!



What do you need

• 50 grams of powdered sugar
• 1 cup of whipped cream, 250ml
• 1 container mascarpone (250 ml)
• 4 spoons strawberryjelly
• 500 grams of strawberries
• 100 grams of ladyfingers
• 1 box of meringues (100 grams)

• low bowl ca. 24 x 24 cm

Preparation


Whip the cream and sugar stiff in a bowl. Add the Mascarpona and mix it with the strawberry jelly and the cream. Do not stir it smoothly. Wash the strawberries, clean them and cut half of them in slices and divide the other half into halves. Place the ladyfingers on the bottom of the bowl. Cover them with 1/3 of the cream mixture. Divide the strawberry slices on top of it and add half of the left over cream mixture. Crumble the meringues on top of that and cover them with the rest of the cream mixture. Garnish it off with the strawberry halves and sprinkle powdered sugar over it. Place in the fridge for two hours and then your strawberry mascarpone trifle is ready to be served!

Enjoy!

Easy dinner

Not feeling like cooking dinner tonight ? How about an easy meal then.

Don't feel bad because you have had a long day and are longing for a fast snack. Obviously you just need to get some food into your system immediately. Keep your heads up because there is an easy solution to your problem:

Get a pizza delivered at http://www.dominos.nl/ !!!

I advise you to go for the Veggie Pizza. It’s deliciously covered with tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, fresh spinach, onions, peppers, mushrooms olives and some fresh tomatoes to top it off.

  

 

 If you’re more the meat loving type, try the Hot & Spicy Pizza. This Pizza is made especially for you with tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, onions, peppers, pepperoni and Spanish peppers.

While you’re at it you might as well order a dessert to finish with. Enjoy the sweetness of a freshly baked cinnamon bun, it’s delivered with sweet vanilla icing dipping sauce.

You can just sit down on your sofa and watch some television while you're waiting and all you've got to do is open the door when the bell's ringing. What more do you want after a long day of hard work...

Welcome!

Hi!
Welcome on our blog The 3 R's of Food. We would like to inspire you with our thoughts on three aspects of food. These aspects are Restaurants, Recipes and Reviews. We will try to post items that might encourage you to eat out of the box! We are going to give our opinion on restaurants, share our experiences with recipes and review new products on the market.

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