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Who am I?

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Introduction

Who am I? No one in particular. I'm just an average Joe, working at the postal service. Tervicz is not even my real name, but a name I chose for myself. It is a name I feel more connected to than to my real name.
I like to travel, see the world. Active on the internet I have met many people from across the globe. Borders mean less to me than they did years ago. Nations and their borders only exist in the minds of people and there's little difference between people except for language and eating habbits.
In my life I have but one constance. The fox, an animal that attracted my attention since I was very young. Who I try to understand and respect. To me they mean everything and I consider the life of a fox more valuable than my own life.
That is all for now, but I will try to add more later as time permits.

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For those that are interested reading about me.

Basics in cooking

Third book in this triology just came out.

http://www.homarus.be/hetproduct-eng.php

Brussels (Belgian) waffles

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(6 ppl)

Ingredients:

600 gr self-rising flour
400 gr sugar
400 gr butter
8 eggs
4 bags of vanilla sugar

Preparation:

Heat up the waffle iron. Mix the flour, sugar, butter, eggs and vanilla sugar until you get a smooth doug. Add butter on the waffle iron and bake the doug when the iron is really hot.

Serve with some powdered sugar, vanilla icecream, whipped cream, chocolate sauce...

Belgian meatballs with cherries

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Ingredients (4 ppl):

500 gr mince (pork)
1 egg
breadcrumbs
pepper and salt
nutmeg
1 bowl of cherries (stones removed)

Preparation:

Mix the mince with the egg, the breadcrumbs and some salt, pepper and nutmeg. Create balls the size of ping-pong balls. Boil a lot of water and cook the meatballs for about 8 minutes. Pour off the water and let the meatballs drip. Bake the meatballs until they're brown. Serve with the cherries (either hot or cold cherries) and some bread.

How to bake frites!

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Frites!

Ingredients:
Potatoes (3 PP)
Frying kettle

Preperation:
Peel the potatoes, then cut them in slices of 1 cm thick. Then cut the slices into fries of 1 cm thick. Then flush them in water extensively. Dry them on a (clean) kitchen towel to avoid extensive splattering when frying and won't stick to each other. Fry them for the first time at 160°C for about 2 minutes (they'll start floating) then put them in a bowl with a sheet of kitchenroll in and shake them a bit to get them dry and then let them cool down. Repeat until all fries are baked the first time. Heat up the fat to 175°-180° C then fry them again until they're golden brown. Never put too many of them in there at the same time as if the temperature will drop and make the frites absorb more fat. Again when done shake them dry, put salt on them. Done! biggrin.gif Really nice with stew sauce and mayonaise.

Toon Hermans

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One of the best Dutch comedians in history. And one of my favourites. http://www.kuleuven.be/thomas/actualiteit/indekijker_lo/1/Toon.htm#hulp

The clip is in Dutch. To give you the back ground, he's taking shots at St Nicolas. In the Netherlands, Belgium and parts of Germany and France children still revere to the original version of this man. Celebrated on the 6th of December, instead of at Christmas. You must picture a bishop in full clothing, but all in red. A big golden rod in his right hand, curved at the top. He has a large white beard and looks very old. He does not come from the North Pole, but instead comes from Spain and not on a sledge but on a steamer. He has a white horse and a bunch of black helpers in funny costumes. He brings presents (toys and candy) to children on the evening of the 5th.

Now, onto the clip. He starts with mentionning he can't remember ever getting presents in his days, not even at "Snieklaas". So he pretended he didn't exist. He finds the saint to be a scary and unpleasant man with a bad attitude. ("Schimmel" has two meanings: white horse and fungus; to show the point of this joke) Irritating figure as well as the whole masquarade. Irritating songs...
At the end he fetches an annekdote of his uncle dressing up with a table cloth (the ashtrays were still visible on his back) as St Nicolas, drunk. And the black helper was his aunt (Joke: never seen a "Zwarte Piet" with two of these big *****):D







Aan de Nederlandstaligen die dit misschien te zien krijgen: Schaam u niet om uw taal of uw cultuur. De wereld mag dan overspoeld worden door de AngleSaksische, Chinese en Arabische taal; onze taal mag er ook best zijn, hoor. :cool:

Photo album 1

Organising a meeting in Amsterdam opened quite a few doors. For one I'm allowed to travel to places most of my age cannot go. Last year I had two vacations relating to this. One was to the UK, at a town in Suffolk. The other was to Alberta, Canada. I uploaded some pictures I took on that trip. I'm not so much a tourist though. I'm more a traveller. Which means I don't just sit on my bum, but also work my ass off for my hosts and mix with the population as far as I can.:D

Croc goo

I can't remember where I got this. But it's ot something you see every day.:D

Crocgoo.avi

After Amsterdam

Well after Autumn 2004 things took off pretty quick. The people within the community and especially those that met all had an impact from the meeting. There were more meetings. People learned who they could trust and met face-to-face. And through all those meetings a small community was formed. People who know people who know people. It takes years of patience to get to this stage, but we did it. Python for instance, I can reach him if I want to purely on public transport in a matter of hours. The others require plane tickets. We've acquire access to each other's homes. What that means I will tell you later.
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