My take on "textures", as I took this photo yesterday.
About 2.5 years ago Nadya told me she wanted a cookbook. Not a normal one, no, she wanted a book made by me with all the dishes I cook on regular evening.
I worked really hard and put one together. She loved it.
Before Demyan left I printed the first book off and although my parents and a friend gave him student-cook-books, he is using mine :) This probably has to do with the fact that the books he got are in Dutch and mine is in English, but even so...
Anyway I started a second one (partly Nadya's request, partly because the ingredients here are different and last but not least that during lockdowns many fun recipes were shared in WhatsApp groups).
This is called "Ms Iris' bean dish". Ms Iris was our next door neighbor in Houston and she prepared this after Harvey. It is comfort food... She served it with Frito Chips and used cans of navy beans. Both I cannot find here, but with black-eyed beans and tortilla chips it is still very tasty. Oh and the red blob on the side is fresh tomato salsa.
