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NCAA – Eliminated in the quarterfinals of the ACC and Big East conference tournament, respectively, the Tar Heels and the Wildcats, winners of three of the last seven national titles, will probably not participate in “March Madness” this year.

Starting Wednesday across the country, the conference tournaments are in full swing until tomorrow, the date of “Selection Sunday” which will reveal the “bracket” of the 68 teams for the final tournament of the season, the most copious as it is: the “March Madness”, which begins on Tuesday.

During the farmers’ protest in the Zuiderpark in The Hague, a protester used a shovel to overturn a block placed by police, allowing protesters to enter the site with tractors, NOS says.

Activists of the Farmers Defense Force (FDF) and Samen voor Nederland (SvNL) demonstrate in Zuiderpark once morest the nitrogen policy, but also once morest the slow handling of the reparations issue in Groningen.

In the #Zuiderpark at the #Vreeswijkstraat a shovel has driven out a barrier. Several trucks have driven onto the site. The shovel driver has been arrested for destruction, resisting arrest, violating the emergency order. The shovel is confiscated.

— Police Unit The Hague (@POL_DenHaag) March 11, 2023

On the eve of the demonstration, the municipality of The Hague had issued an emergency ordinance to avoid disruption of public order but although the mayor has installed flexible road barriers to prevent demonstrators from entering the centre, the system has not held up.

FDF had previously invited supporters to travel to The Hague without tractors: initially the plan was to bring 5000 tractors to Zuiderpark, but the municipality had not allowed it.

We love Asian food at home, but there really is no such thing as ‘Asian cuisine’. A dish is either Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Indian, etc. Of course there are fusion dishes or flavors that are similar, but it is too easy to lump everything together. As if …

We love Asian food at home, but there really is no such thing as ‘Asian cuisine’. A dish is either Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Indian, etc. Of course there are fusion dishes or flavors that are similar, but it is too easy to lump everything together. As if you are talking regarding European cuisine and suddenly call a stew with tomato and grated mozzarella cheese a stew Margherita. Well, then you have all the dolls in Italy dancing ;-).

But secretly I also approach it too easily, if only by placing a category with ‘Asian recipes’ on my site, purely because many people look for their recipes that way. I am aware of this, but I will continue to do so for the latter reason and try to give more information in the text of the recipe or in some other way regarding the cuisine that inspired me or the country where the dish comes from.

And sometimes I just don’t know or just do something. And that’s fine too! Because there are so many delicious seasonings from Asian cuisine that you can cook with :-D. All that inspired me to make a weekly menu with Asian influences, enjoy!

In the weekly menu you will find fried miso eggplant with rice, Thai curry with bok choy and chicken balls, cauliflower kung pao, steak from the wok with shiitake and eggplant, char siu chicken with bok choy, nasi goreng and orange mango cake. Enjoy your meal!

Monday

Fried miso eggplant with rice

(Inspired by miso)

Tuesday

Curry with bok choy, chicken balls and cashew crumb

(Inspired by Thai cuisine)

Find more curry paste recipes here.

Wednesday

Cauliflower kung pao

(Inspired by Chinese cuisine)

Thursday

Beef steak from the wok with shiitake and eggplant

(Inspired by my wok and what I had left at home)

You can find more noodle recipes here.

Friday

Char siu chicken with bok choy and white rice

(Inspired by Chinese cuisine)

Saturday

Fried rice

(Inspired by Indonesian cuisine)

You can find more nasi recipes here.

Sunday

Orange mango cake

(Not inspired by anything. Since I don’t have any Asian dessert recipes on my site, I thought a cake with mango and orange would be the most fitting for this weekly menu ;-).

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Enjoy the dishes from this weekly menu! If you share a photo on social media, don’t forget to tag it with #francescakookt or @francescakookt. I really like to see that.