Just had some Gouda cheese made by Clarina Vintage Cheese located in the Netherlands. It is a lusciously soft creamy cheese with a slight chewyness that combined tastes homemade and yummy.
Having it as an appetizer with Kim Crawford Pinot Noir from New Zealand 2018. Goes very well together!
I am cooking "Friendship" soup. It starts with 3/4 of a pound ground beef cooked on 2 tbsp of olive oil, 1 chopped medium onion, 1 chopped garlic clove, salt and pepper, and then in goes a cup of tomatoes, 2 tbsp of tomato paste, 4 cups of water with spices, dried peas, corn, and lentils, a liitle bit of rice or barley or both, plus spices. After coming to a boil, it gets turned down to simmer for 45 minutes, and then a wee bit of pasta cooked for another 15 to 20 minutes, unitl the peas, corn, lentils and pasta are soft. Serves probably 4.