Blowin In The Wind

I was looking at a commercial of fiat and i heard  'blowin in the wind' and I liked the song very much. So I looked at wiki and found out it was orginally from Bob Dylan. But the song in the fiat commercial was a woman's voice. So I went to youtube and found out that it was Katie Melua who sang the song. I have some songs of Bob Dylan but this one I didn't have so this one will go in to my iTunes and Ipod.

But I couldn't leave it at that (oh no, because i'm that crazy) I went and looked at every artist who sang this song. This is a great song and you have to give it a listen before judging it.

Bob Dylan Katie Melua Alanis Morissette Joan Baez Johnny Cash Stevie Wonder Pieter, Paul And Mary Marlene Dietrich Bobby Darin The Hollies Elvis Presley The Hooters Neil Young Etta James Sam Cook The Seekers Great American String Band Dolly Parton Chet Atkins Judy Collins Marianne Faithfull The Doodletown Pipers John Fogerty Bruce Springsteen Bob Dylan & Joan Baez The Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Barbara Dickson Vanessa Paradis & Suzanne Vega

It's a shame I couldn't find all the song versions.

I loved the Katie Melua, Sam Cook and the Vanessa Paradis & Suzanne Vega version. 

Take Care 

Here are the lyrics of the song:

"Blowin' In The Wind"

How many roads most a man walk downBefore you call him a man ?

How many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand ?

Yes, how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned ?

The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Yes, how many years can a mountain exist Before it's washed to the sea ?

Yes, how many years can some people exist Before they're allowed to be free ?

Yes, how many times can a man turn his head Pretending he just doesn't see ?

The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Yes, how many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky ? Yes, how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry ?

Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died ?

The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind.

I hate reading the news paper

So it's Friday, a week has gone by since my first blog message... Time sure flies by...

Some days I feel like I have done nothing (What have i done???)...I feel sort of empty.. I want to travel. I soooooo want to go to China...But the circumstances prevent me from going.. Since I have parents who are not at there best. I have to stay by there side, but some day I will go there... to China. I can't wait when that day comes..I already feel a little bit better.

I release that the world is really crazy these days.. I don't even read the paper anymore, because of all the shitty things that are happening in this world of ours.. But today was one of those days when you pick a paper in a restaurant, who someone left aside, when drinking a hot cacao milk (i hate coffee) you read some articles. It was an English paper (i think the Times.) And while I was reading I already thought (what the hell am i doing, i hate papers) I'm home, but still one of those articles is still in my head it was like this.:

'French 'virgin-hunter' Michel Fourniret refuses to speak at trial'

This crazy person and his crazy wife, look like the perfect couple. But meanwhile these people kidnap girls, drug, rape and then kill them. It was utterly discasting and I was thinking why in godsname have i picked up the paper. This is way I don't read or watch the news.

I will never pick up a news paper (yeahh right)

Orange Chiffon Cake

This cake is delicious. The only thing I did different is I used plain flower and not cake flour.

Feast Salad

Ingredients:

3 or 4 boiled eggs

Can of corn

250 gr of rise

1 can of tuna in water

2 carrots little pieces

5 potatoes pieces

1 cucumber

1 broccoli

1 couliflower

2 tomatoes

100 gr string beans little pieces

1 lettace

2 beets pieces

corriander

salt 

1,5 tsp pepper

1 tsp cumin

6 tbsp Mayonnaise

Preparation:

The carrots, coliflower, broccoli, spring beans steam them when cooked let them cool down.

Potatoes cook them in water and salt and let them cool down.

Beets i've bought those already cooked and sliced.

Slice the tomatoes in to pieces.

Cucumber one half in round slices and another half in little pieces. Prepare the lettace.

The rise cook this in water and salt and also let it cool down

Now you can prepare the salad. Get a big plate for the salad and put all the lettace on the plate.

Prepar the salad saus for the rise and vegetables.

The saus:

Take a small bowl and put the mayonnaise and pepper in it and mix if the saus is to thick put some  sunflower  in it.

Take the cooled down rise and put it in a bowl, take the tuna drain the water and put it with the rise put some saus with the mixter. Grab a soup bowl put some corn first than the rise mixter and push it until theres no more room left. Get your plate and turn your bowl on the plate, now you get the rise mixter on your plate.

Now you can rearrange your vegetables. How ever you want!! You can also pick other vegetables if you like.

Most of the vegetables have the salad saus in them. Only the potatoes have cumin and corriander in them.

Bastilla Chicken

This is a tradiotional Moroccan recipe with chicken, almonds and phyllo (fillo)pastry.

Ingredients:

For the chicken:

1,5 Chicken

2 onions minced

3 garlic cloves minced

fresh ginger minced

1 tsp powder ginger

1 tsp saffron powder

1 tsp salt

1 lemon juice

1 tsp moroccan chicken spices

2 tbsp sunflower oil

3 tbsp Parsley chopped

3 tbsp Coriander chopped

2 onions

water

5 eggs

The Almond mixter:

500 gram Blanched/fried almonds grounded

3 tbsp Sugar grounded

2,5 tbsp Cinnamon grounded

125 gram melted butter

1 tbsp grounded sugar

1 package Phyllo pastry

Garnish:

2 tbsp grounded sugar

1 tbsp grounded cinnamon

some almonds

Preparation:

Take the 1,5 chicken and put the following ingredients in a big bowl with the chicken. The minced onions, garlic and ginger, powder ginger, safron, salt, lemon juice, chicken spices, sunflower oil, chopped parsley and corinder. Leave the chicken a night in the refragerater to marinate.

You take the two chopped onions put them in a pan with  the chicken and add water barely covering the chicken. Let the chicken cook for a hour or until tender. Every 10 min or so roated the chicken. When the chicken is cooked you take it and leave it to cool.

Egg mixter:

You leave the juice in the pan until most of the water evaporates. You then put the 5 eggs in the pan and wisk very good until the juice is all dried up. You then let this cool down.

If the chickens cool down you peal the flesh from the bones in little pieces. You can loose the skin of the chicken.

Almond mixter:

Put 500 grams of almonds in a pan and pour cold to barely cover the almonds. Put them to a boil. Pull the pan from the heat and poor cold water over de almonds. And you can easly slip the skin off. Dry the almonds. Then put sunflower oil in a frying pan and put the almonds in until golden brown. Drain the almond from oil (leave some almonds for the garnish) and grind the almonds with the sugar and cinnamon.

You then put the pastry in a round pizza tin like that from a microwave. You put the phyllo pastry on top of the tin. You then put half of the chicken pieces on top, then half of the egg mixter, then half of the almond mixter then half of the butter. Then again the other half of everything you leave a little bit of butter. You put 2 tbsp of grounded sugar on top of the almonds then you put to layers of phyllo pastry on top. Make sure everything is form and tucked in the phyllo pastry. You then drizzel the left over butter. Put the Bastilla in the oven with a medium heat for 25 or 30 min. When finished you garnish the bastilla with grounded sugar with a small sieve and with your fingers take some cinnamon and let your imagination work. And put some half almonds on top.

بالهناء والشفاء

Tomorrow.......

So, tomorrow I invited some friends...(I'm thinking, ohh god, i hope everything go's as planned) 

I love it when friends and family come, and I am hosting a diner, I always want everythig to be just right. I tend to make always to much, because I think it's not enough. Let's say I think my guest will think I'm a greedy person if there's not much too choose. So I'm always left with lots of leftovers.

So yesterday was the beginning of some preperations, like baking some cookies and cake.

I was so busy, that it was half past 12 a.m. when i finished my baking. Today I'm preparing the chicken for the Bastilla (a traditional Moroccan dish with layers of chicken, almonds and phyllo pastry) On the side I will make same salad and as a beverage a fruitshake. (I'm still thinking is it enough, i hope so.......)

If all go's well, it will be a great day with my two best friends (with lots of food).

Recipes will come soon!!

Thai Curry Spaghetti

Ingredients:

- 500 grams spaghetti

- 3 tbsp olive oil

- 2 medium tomatoes finelly chopped

- 1 finelly chopped medium onion

- 2 cloves of garlic finelly chopped

- 1 tbsp of Fresh ginger grated

- 1 tsp pepper

- 1 tsp salt

- 1 tbsp fresh parsley

- 250 grams chicken fillets chopped in small bite seize pieces

- 150 grams mushrooms sliced

- 4 tbsp Red thai curry paste

- 1/2 carrot and a handful of peas left overs from yesterday

Preparation:

Heat the olive oil in a frying pan over a medium heat and put the onion to fry for a few minutes. Add the mushrooms, garlic, salt, pepper and ginger and fry until softend. 

Add the chicken fillet and fry until tender.

Meanwhile cook the spaghetti.

Now add the tomatoes, red curry paste, fresh parsley and the left over peas and carrot. 

If you don't have any left overs just take fresh carrots en peas and steam them.

If everything is cooked, put the spaghetti on a plate and add the saus.

Buon Appetito!

My First Day As A Blogger

Pfoeee, and i'm not even finished yet. Here I am thinking what the hell i should say, so I'll begin simple. Let me talk about the weather.. It's raining very hard here in our little frogland (kikkerlandje) that's what we call it and it won't stop. 

Tomorrow is Friday, that's a big day for us. It's our holy day, we go to the mosque and pray and listen to the imam. 

And in our culture, i'm from morocco, we make couscous, hmmmm and we come together and eat and talk. But that's when your in Morocco, here it's different, we haven't got a big family. It's just me and my parents and my uncle, who we don't see that much, because he has his own family. So the people who have a big family, be proud of that and sure, the are sometimes annoying and bossy. But they are there for you when you need them. So this is my message for you, you never can say, I LOVE YOU to much. So shares your loved ones. And until next time. Boesa