06.11.2014 – Some weird pasta with beans and fried rice

David is over excited because I'm back and I can cook for him again and he's keep saying - It is so perfect to eat your food again! You are cooking for me again! And on he goes even though we don't have anything in the kitchen, we haven't bought any food since we came back and all I have is one can of beans and pasta. 

But David is really happy because we are together again and I'm cooking and he's not eating his parents' food, which is great in his eyes, since he naturally despises all that comes from his family (he's from a very rich family actually).

In the evening the hunger is bigger and the food is lesser then less so I try to invent something from nothing and I made up this recipe for fried rice.

And he says - I love it when the rice is like that!

I ask - How?  

And he says - So good! 

So that's about it. I'm happy he's happy. 

Recipe for the fried rice (which was actually pretty tasty)

1 cup of rice 

2-3 cups of vegetable stock

Fresh spinach

Crème Fraiche 

Egg

1. Cook one pot of rice with two or three pots of bio vegetable stock.

2. Put into the fridge to cool a little or until David starts to scream - Auuuch.

3. Fry on the pre-heat saucepan with a little bit of oil. 

4. Add some spinach mixed with crème fraiche.

5. Break one egg on the one side of the pan, stir until done, then stir all together until you feel like the rice is fried a little. 

6. Eat. 

19.10.2014 – Kari

It happens when we are about to land, the plane is going rapidly down and the feeling is so scary, then David leans to me and says -And what about the Kari? You promised me to tell me the recipe. How do you make it?

-You want to hear it now? I ask disconcerted.

-Yes. He smiles. And I know it is a trick. A trick how to distract me. Distract me from the fact we are actually flying above the ground. So I start telling him the Kari recipe and he is asking some details in order to prolong it. Such as -How long fry the onions at the beginning? What kind of vegetables add to it. How much of a yoghurt?

He seems to be very focused, which is unusual for him in this situation (see - me narrating him my recipes). And just like that I survive the landing, we are on the firm ground and I don't know how this actually happened because I spend those minutes preparing Kari with David.

The Kari story has a part two, obviously.
He decided to cook it for his father while he was visiting him and obviously he forgot the whole procedure completely. He was probably not so focused on the recipe as I initially thought, but more focused on the fact we are landing. He knew I was panicking and he was just trying to save me. 

Anyway, I´m preparing this big dinner with some other friends, I promised to cook for them Pad Thai and pizza. I choose Gennaro Contado's recipe for home-made pizza, I'm making it for the first time, I'm cooking for six people and I'm trying to make an impression, the kitchen is so small (as usual) and I'm not really nervous, yet uncertain. Thai Pad – I've never done it, I've been only eating it with John. This pizza dough is with yeast. And I don't really enjoy working with it, so yes, I'm stressing a little bit and in that moment David calls me. 

- Davi, any idea what to cook for my father? He has had Kari three times this week already! I'm covered in flour and I'm thinking really fast and then I remember I have one recipe from Jamie, I took a photo from his book at home, but first I have to check the photo on my phone and call back to David. I repeat this procedure three times, because every time I read the recipe I forget something and at the meantime I'm cooking.In the end I have four huge pizzas from the Gennaro's dough, way too much for six people and Pad Thai noodles are glued together and the wok isn't really wok but small pan, so I have to use two of them and calling David in the same time dictating him the recipe. The mobile, me, the kitchen, all is covered in flour and noodles and soya sauce but eventually the meal is ready and I drink one glass of red wine after another, thinking about how David's doing. 

And even though his meal is still not ready after four hours, he's doing certainly great and he has cooked perfect food for his posh father. I'm sure.