Sorry: what I also got for you:

A fragment from the ca. twelfth-century collection of poetry nowadays called the Carmina Burana:

Ego sum abbas Cucaniensis,
et consilium meum est cum bibulis,
et in secta Decii voluntas mea est
et qui mane me quesierit in taberna,
post vesperam nudus egredietur,
et sic denudatus veste clamabit:
Wafna! Wafna!
Quid fecisti sors turpissima?
Nostre vite gaudia abstulisti omnia!
Ha! Ha!

~

Ik ben de abt van 't koekoeksklooster
en mijn vergadering is met de drinkers,
en mijn roeping is gelegen in de orde van de dobbelsteen,
en wie mij 's ochtends in de kroeg op zal zoeken
zal tegen de avond naakt naar buiten gaan
en zo beroofd van zijn kleding zal hij schreeuwen:
Och hemel, och hemel!
Wat heb je gedaan, zeer schandelijk lot?
Je hebt alle vreugde van mijn leven ontnomen!
Ha!Ha!

It's still tuesday evening...

... and I am done with my third essay.

Add this to a delicious meal and a half-pint of straffe cider

and I can say I'm pretty happy.

I'm not even very tired - I have decided to shift my day-night rhythm a few hours this week because of Christmas celebrations. Which means I will still be able to indulge in some Jippus et Jannica or Importance of Being Earnest or Peake's Alice after writing this!

I'll give you my essay conclusions later (it is mightily exciting, but of course you might not be interested at all, in which case you can enjoy the privilege of the reader and skip it! Jullie even blij dat ik niet meer mondeling met jullie communiceer ;-)

What I'll give you now: tonight's recipe. NOT suitable fo vegetarians, but QUITE suitable for single households with the need to eat simple&cheap&deliciously (I'm thinking in particular of M. and M. now) and for families with the need to satisfy a picky son (who gets less picky by the day I know)&still eat deliciously.

serves 4
15 min. work
35 min. stirring and waiting

1kg of any (pieces of a) chicken with bone
1 onion (at the least)
1 clove garlic (idem dito)
2 leeks (das prei)
1 apple (at the least)
1 chicken stock cube
400ml cider (or more, but nice to drink as well!)
1 tablespoon of flour

Fry chicken in pan (with some butter, I would say), remove and put aside. Chop onion and garlic and fry. Stir in flour (cook for 1 min.) and stock cube and cider and 200ml water. Add chicken. Bring to boil and simmer for 20 min. Chop apple and slice leeks and add. Cook 15 min. Done!