#recipe

Ingredients

1,2 kg beef, cubed 1 kg leeks, sliced 1 head of new garlic 5 pointed peppers 700 ml passata 1 glass of red wine salt 1 tbsp black pepper 1 tbsp rose paprika (hot) 2 tbsp sweet paprika chilli to taste sour creme

Method

Brown the meat, then, separately wilt the leak, add the peppers and the halved head of garlic. Then add back the meat, spices, red wine, sour creme and passata. Bring to a boil.

In an oven heated to 130 C cook for three hours.

Why leeks, why flamande?

I was to lazy to peel and dice 1 kg of onions, but the frozen, sliced onions were sold out. Leeks were available. Leeks are something not entirely unheard of in Belgium.

Ingredients

340 g water (lukewarm) 15 g fresh yeast (or 5 g dry yeast) 10 g salt 455 g wheat flour (type 550)

Method

Mix all the ingredients and leave covered to prove for two hours. Continue proving over night in the refrigerator.

Next morgen shape into 6 rolls and let prove on the baking sheet for an additional 30 minutes before placing in the oven, heated to 230° C.

Pour halve a cup of water on the bottom of the oven.

Bake for 20 to 25 minutes.

Update 2023-05-17

Reduced water to 315 g

Will report how it goes

Update 2023-05-18

At 70% hydration the rise was basically the same. Shaping was easier and the dough slightly less sticky.

Crumb as nice as before.

Will Go with 70% hydration for the next bakes.

#recipe

It just occurred to me, from some decades of experience

Project Management is about creating options and opportunities, not just achieving milestones

#ProjectManagement #experience

Easter Monday we set out on a trip to Lüneburg Heath, that was supposed to be four days of cycling. That though, is not what happened.

Two days of rain

Our trip started with two days of rain, interrupted by hail, and, much more rarely, a little sunshine. Plans were changed and adapted and we started with two days of Lüneburg.

Thanks to going basically broke at the right time the city is very well preserved with most of the medieval buildings intact.

The first day was spent exploring the city and dodging hail. Following a meandering course around the city and taking in some great examples of Backstein Gothik. The second day was spent in the Deutsche Salzmuseum and the Museum Lüneburg.

Apart from being a major trading centre for salt, Lüneburg sits on quite a lot of salt, the city also queried and exported gypsum. The Kalkberg is said to have been 10 times larger originally and was quarried for almost 1000 years.

The evening of the second day closed with a well deserved rainbow .

Two days without rain

Two good trips across the heath, one starting in Bispingen and climbing the Wilseder Berg. The heath is interrupted by a lot of pine and beech forrests. The ideal time to visit is apparently August, when the heath is in bloom. But even without the bloom there are some magnificent views.

Location: Lüneburg
Height: 14,8
Coordinates: 53,25 - 10,42

Location: Bispingen
Height: 87,6
Coordinates: 53,09 - 9,99

Location: Essel
Height: 23
Coordinates: 52,7 - 9,69

Location: Bielefeld
Height: 96,3
Coordinates: 52,02 - 8,63

24/04/23: A haiku a day
is not an easy habit
to maintain I find

23/04/23: A breadroll morning
satisfaction and good taste
and a great coffee

22/04/23: Feeling really strange
aware of nearing pension
immortal teen

21/04/23: Sudden rain in the
morning changes the mood and
should water the soul

20/04/23: Due work progresses
all friction not withstanding
inching towards stop

19/04/23: Project managers
are super therapists
waiting for a fact

18/04/23: The centigrades
are dancing, coming, going,
no boring weather

17/04/23: Off to work I went
refreshed, renewed, recycled,
off we go again

16/04/23: A vacation by
definition is too short
and work is too long

15/04/23: Here straggly heather
there juniper and ibex stand
cloud studded heaven

14/04/23: Wind bent pines and beech
rooted in heath and heather
copses of birch gleaming

14/04/23: Crooked streets go
from river to market square
old brick holds the sky

12/04/23: Rain and sun and wind
a medieval modern town
red brick and arches

11/04/23: River meanders
glistening in the sunshine
trees are blossoming

10/04/23: A river of cars
pouring north where we are going
camaraderie?

9/04/23: The queue ran empty
so I filled it again
I need to write more

9/04/23: Crusty breakfast roll
so humble and majestic
tasty, nourishing

8/04/23: When the weekend looms
and the sun checks the horizon
keep the mind cheerful

6/04/23: Warm sun, blossoms show
winter fading memory
bright evenings will come

5/04/23: ‘twas a good idea
to make dinner for myself
before I got hangry

4/04/23: Best day of the year
for turning sun into some
electricity

3/04/23: Aprils weather does
disgust, delight, but never
bore. Garden awaits

2/04/23: Drizzle and drizzle
and droplets on my glasses
what a boring sight

2/04/23: My electric sheep
does not like the rain and thus
the grass remains long

1/04/23: Gin and tonic glass
glistening condensation
it’s Feierabend

31/03/23: Socks on my left foot
do more often have a hole
I’m so curious why

30/03/23: A haiku a day
does not, in fact, keep the doc
away, pity that

29/03/23: Snow blooms today as
blossoms would spring and winter
dance the seasons change

28/03/23: Cooking with good friends
eating, talking, drinking too
that is a nice day

27/03/23: A low haiku stack
fuels productive tinkering
with word and picture

26/03/23: A sorbets icy
charms, tart and fruity, frozen
cools the worlds demands

25/03/23: An early April
sun, rain, wind, rain, sun, rain, wind,
weather’s having fun

25/03/23: When at evening
the sun shines again warmly
warming more than skin

24/03/23: Young shoots bring pollen
spring seems in the air today
sneezes in season

22/03/23: Morning bells ringing
coffee drinking sitting quiet
contemplating sleep

21/03/23: Grey sky wtihout cloud
even light without shadow
I miss the contrasts

20/03/23: Time flies, when you are
having fun, they say, oh my,
getting old seems fun?

19/03/23: Morning coffee taste
bright, bitter, milky, coffee
switch on brain, again

19/03/23: When spring sun shines
when alder and hazel fly
sneezing wakes me up

18/03/23: Young man is your kid
doesn’t follow expectations
calm down dad, normal

17/03/23: Ev’ning snow flakes
landing wetly grossly on
my evening shopping run

16/03/23: Dancing letters show
on glass in word and picture
the world behind us

15/03/23: Raining afternoon
draws a veil across the world
allowing dreams to rise

14/03/23: Raining afternoon
flees slowly towards the evening
where g&t awaits me

Blueberry Sorbet

#sorbet #sorbetto #recipe #blueberries

600 g blueberries 200 g sugar (sugar syrup) 1 lemon, juice of 1 jigger gin

Mix everything in a bowl using a blender, until smooth. Optionally pass mixture through a sieve, which is an excellent way to spread blue stains around.

Freeze with ice machine, alternatively put mixture into freezer, stir well every 30 minutes or so until consistency is good.