Diversen - Vegetarisch

After an uninspiring May, June and July, we've had a beautiful August in Amsterdam this year. It's the kind of August that calls for sitting outside, glass of[...]

I've been holding out on posting this recipe for a while because whenever I make them, I forget to write down the quantities - it's more of an "a little of[...]

New lives, new resolutions. It is 2012 and this year, I write you from Amsterdam where my wonderful housemate Rado and I have been trying to live 'healthier'[...]

Savoury, wintery, and what's not to love about like lamb? Like all good traditional home cooked meals, you can make a Shepherd's pie in just about a million[...]

Last weekend in London, I learned how to do something that had always seemed impossible to me. I learned how to poach an egg. Not by going to some cooking[...]

Today was one of those mornings. Perhaps the last warm Saturday in November (pretty unusual for the Netherlands), the trees behind our house have long[...]

The smooth silkyness that is Hollandaise sauce: the perfect complement for foods with soft flavors - asparagus, fish, poached egg.... need I go on? I'm a firm[...]

I know, I've been awful. Caught up in my PhD field research and other things, I have completely neglected this blog. It's been a year of extremes. This spring[...]

Happy to be back from culinary purgatory, I threw my friends a dinner party last Friday. Before we ever made it to the table, we sat for several hours over[...]

First of all, I should apologize to my blog followers for my 3-month silence. Right now, I could buy myself a get-out-of-jail free card and say that with 3[...]

Cherries!!! May is the season and all the fruit and vegetable shops are filled with them - red, shiny and irresistible. One look at that crate outside my[...]

This recipe reminds me of spring, Jordanian sunshine and mint sold by the bushes. For a while in Amman, I added mint to just about everything. Being a good[...]

I was first introduced to chocolat fondant in Jordan, when I helped a French (as it should be) friend of mine prepare it for his birthday. I remember how, back[...]

Ever since I tried that blackberry-mint sorbet a couple of weeks ago, I've been sold. Don't see why I didn't think of it earlier, as there's nothing to it and[...]

Ok, I realize that I have been posting a lot of cream soups and that it's getting to be time for something else. But with asparagus in season, so cheap,[...]