Dark skies are racing by, no sun is shining or peeping through the clouds. It’s not even getting real day light, so grey is the tone and always when the[...]

After a week of cooking and celebrations, family and friends in the house, St. Nicolas and my son's 16th birthday, I am begining to get back to "normal". I[...]

I confess: I don’t do Christmas and I don’t understand all the fuss around it, what to eat, how much presents to buy, what type of tree and[...]

From the Nourished Kitchen I made this great breakfast dish: baked oatmeal. It is delicious and …again with cranberries. What is this cranberry thing?[...]

Today I’m making a gluten free Christmas stollen, this is one of our Dutch traditions in this time of year. We make a dry fruit filled yeast bread and[...]

Two weeks ago, on the event of my son’s 16th birthday, we were making rocky roads. Instead of melting gently into a smooth dark chocolate sauce, the[...]

To end the year I want to share with you some of my favorite posts of 2011. It is good to look back sometimes, to capture the good moments and to get inspired[...]

This Indian salad is a delicious side dish with a hot vegetable curry or a simple dal with rice. I eat it with my favorite khichadi . The nice thing about[...]

I made jam cookies before, they were based on butter cookies from Normandy. Today I wanted a healthy cookie, no sugar, no butter, only good ingredients. To be[...]

For this new bread I was inspired by Karina, the Gluten-free Goddess. Read her story here . Hers is more a cake-like bread. I wanted a bread-like bread, so I[...]

This week I got a comment from Louise, she wrote me that she was so happy that she could make a cracker for her husband now she had discovered my blog. I am[...]

This is a favorite of mine when I need some comfort food. It’s hearty, soft, warm and spicy and sweet. I just love it. Serve it with some brown basmati[...]

As promised here is the recipe for the chickpea watercress soup. As always you can be creative and replace or add ingredients. I bought the watercress on the[...]

I thought every child eats beetroot, they are sweet and, when cooked, soft and pretty to look at. Not mine, he really dislikes them. So when I got beets in my[...]

I read a recipe from Yotam Ottolenghi in the Guardian where he made roasted Brussels sprouts and made a beautiful salad with pomelo and star anise. Lately I[...]