Taz did it again! She went to the shops far far away in the deep and dark places in Helsinki, selecting high quality flour, the best fresh exotic vegetables, the most hot and spicy and juicy chilli's and perfect manufactured (what do I say, hand-made of course!) olive oil. Yes yes, The chef of our flat, ouhlala, went out shopping to serve her flatmates and friends the best Asian dish you can imagine. This process takes hours, you must take it seriously! Everything must be selected and approved by somebody who knows what cooking is like! Not Jamie Oliver that can make a nice Basilico-tomato-pasta!! No NO, Taz selects fine-healthy-well balanced good flavoured food for her loving flatmates! She spreads love! and everybody knows the expression, 'the love goes through the stomach'
This dish is her speciality, she learned to cook this dish from her mother as soon as she was able to stand on her feet. She mixes the flour with water and treats the dough with her bare hands. Then, the dough gets 12 hours of rest in the frigde. Afterwards, it's ready for further steps. She makes the perfect balls and the perfect circles. Then, she makes the filling: frying the perfect fresh vegetables, chilli's, pies, corn, more chilli's, onion, carrots, more chilli's, potato, paprika and chilli's. And of course you bring your food to taste! So you add some spices, prefferably chilli massala powder! Then you bake the dough, which is formed into perfect circles now, and make triangles from them. People in Asia always liked Origami! After making this art work, you fill the triangles with the fillings and fry them in the oil. Tadaaaaa! Ouhlalala.
Eurhgm, maybe you are still thinking 'what is this about?'.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, apples and pears, fruitcakies, it's about Samosa's !
So, to make a long story short, Taz made samosa's and her Swedish journalist friend Anna helped her, while having nice cosy converstations in the meanwhile. They invited their journalist friends, invited other friends, fun fun fun, Russian Vodka, Spanish wine, Dutch Indonesian food, Italian/Finnish cake, beer, crisps, lot of people, spicy & chilli, jammie jammie-party-party:)
Taz and Lydie were wondering what happend to Christina's legs. You can see the amazement of Chris on her face. It was a strange and magical moment.
The day after, we discussed the latter evening with a nice salty soup (this time by Mieke, not Lydie) and some 'Eastern-European food for poor people' and curry sauce. Because all of this was so bad, Chris proposed pizza and Taz made cracers with camembert. (She could blame her culture because in the UK they dont have camembert but they do have a lot of crackers).
In the evening, Chris made perfect nice little chocholate balls, hmm, Spanish speciality, and a salad with fried potatos and onion....She especially had to call here mom for the recepy, so it's not just something out of a cooking book. No NO, again, special selected food for the loving flatmates :)
1 comment:
yummy yum...i want a tsate of the somosa;-)
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