Last Friday my friend Patrick came over from Oldenzaal, the town in the eastern part of The Netherlands where he lives. Patrick and I know each other a long and we were once direct colleagues.
For all kind of reasons it has been some time that we got together for a beer and such. As we agreed fully with each other that has been way too long.
It was good to see Patrick again. We had a lot to talk about. Many thing did happen since the last time we had met. Lots of thing to laugh about. And of course there are always many good memories from the past.
We went for dinner at the Golden House, the Chinese restaurant close to my house. Because I get there every now and them some Chinese food I already that it was a good restaurant. But the Cantonese dinner we had was really superb.
Patrick and I agreed that we should meet sooner this time and that will happen, because in April we have tickets for a concert of Candy Dulfer.
For Saturday I made a chicory dish. The recipe was based on something I saw once in a supermarket. But now I made the sauce myself and added some things I thought that would taste good to it…
On the bottom of the ovenproof dish I placed a layer of sliced cooked potatoes.
I baked some meatloaf mixed with small pieces of bacon. Through the mixture a little bit of Garlic. With meatloaf well done I added the chicory and some union (both of course fine cut).
Of this I made a new layer on the first layer of potatoes slices. On top of this all another layer of cooked potatoes slices.
I made a sauce bases on sour cream with herbs as parsley, salt, pepper, nutmeg. The sauce was
poured on top or the contents of the ovenproof oven. On top that grated cheese… and the dish for 50 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees Celsius in the oven…. And done!
A wonderful and easy dinner…. and way too much for one day again 🙂