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Frank’s Spicy Vegetarian Stew

January 18, 2009 Frank Leave a comment

Hi everybody – It’s Sunday cooking time!

Today I made a neat vegetarian dish that I thought I should share. Images are clickable.

This dish is enough to feed 4 grown men with good appetite, which should translate to 6-8 “ordinary” servings. The leftovers (if any) are fine to freeze and just microwave when you are in a hurry/lazy.

The ingredients: zucchini, cauliflower, mini-aubergine, onion, crushed tomatoes, baby corn, egg noodles and spices.

Start by washing and chopping the big vegetables.

Put the zucchini and aubergine in a hot wok pan (if you don’t have one, use a big pot) with cooking oil and plenty of salt.

Shortly after, add the cauliflower and baby corn.

Chop one onion and slice two pieces of garlic. Use a sharp knife to make the garlic slices as thin as possible. Add them to the pan.

Spice time! Use two parts tandoori spice, one part kebab spice and one part paprika powder. When you have added as much as you dare, add at least twice as much! None of these spices are strong, and will simply add flavor.

Now, add two cans of crushed tomatoes and stir. Slightly lower the heat (but not to much).

Put on some water for the noodles. Or rice, pasta, cous cous, potatoes or whatever you prefer.

Piri piri! For a dish this size, you need at least 5 piri piris. Be aware that they are quite strong, so make sure you have no cuts on your fingers or so when you handle them.

Start by lining them up in a row and crush them with your knife (if you use fresh piri piri, skip this step).

Then chop them up as much as you can (don’t use a jagged knife). As you can see, there are plenty of seeds – try to keep them from flying away. Put everything in the pan and stir.

While the stew bubbles and fizzes, lets make a salad! Take half a head of iceberg lettuce, cut it and rinse it well.

Pour out the water and add the noodles to the pan.

Stir until everything is mixed. All done!

Serve with the salad, some white bread and water. Bon appétit!

Things I would have added if I had any at home:

Carrots
Mushrooms
Chinese water chestnut

Photography

The Icelandic coast

December 8, 2008 Frank 1 Comment

I just found these fantastic HDR photographs of the Icelandic coast, and thought that I should share them with anyone who has not yet made up their mind as whether or not to join us to Iceland in April 2009 (so far I think 8 people are coming).

Unfortunately, I do not know who the original photographer is, but I found the pictures on this site.

Gallery: Icelandic coast

Photography

Einstein tattoo

November 26, 2008 Frank 4 Comments

I just got home from the tattoo parlor House of Pain Sthlm where I have spent money (and some pain) and Micke has spent hours putting ink in my arm(s).

This one only took three hours, compared to about 4,5 hours for Frankenstein. They are about the same size but this has less details due to Einstein’s light hair and smoother skin.

Nah, less talk and more pictures:

I also scheduled a new time for my next tattoo project as well: March 11th. Aside from the two times I already have scheduled in April/May with Nille at Salvation Tattoo. 🙂

Music, Photography, Social

Kulturhusnatten – The Culture House Night

October 19, 2008 Frank 3 Comments

This Friday me and some friends went to an event taking place in the Stockholm Culture House.

The small 30SEK fee gave you entrance to a large amount of short concerts, performances, movies, exhibitions and such.

Especially good were:

George Kentros & Matthias Peterson, with an interpretation of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons that involved sampling a live violin and playing back distorted loops – Industrial Violin!
Abalone Dots, playing bluegrass with a touch of Swedish Folk Music – Softgrass.
Short film festival – Oue!
Klubb Sunkit – the club for odd and forgotten pop music – Muzak, Easy Listening, Exotica and Swedish Dance Band.

After a couple of hours we all needed to go somewhere more quiet, so we went to Kasper for beer.

Frank Lumien

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Einstein tattoo

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