People who know me well know that I love liquorice. I am really Dutch in this. I know that a lot of people in other parts of the world passionately despise liquorice.But I have to say I really like the better quality liquorice and not just what you can buy in supermarkets. A licorice I…
Category: Food and Stuff
“Griesmeelpudding” (Semolina pudding)
I think that it is well known that I love to cook and try often new things. I am always interested in recipes from different parts of the world. But some times it is nice to look a little bit closer to home.Some days ago I was doing in the local supermarket and there I…
About strawberries…
I think it will be no surprise that strawberries are very healthy and have quite some benefits. They are a very good source of vitamin C and manganese, but also contain vitamin B9 and potassium.Further more they contain antioxidants and compounds that are beneficial for the heart and blood sugar level. But when I was…
Chocolate makes happy
Somewhere last week I was chatting with Rob. One a certain moment the conversation turned to chocolate. Rob, as so many others, loves chocolate. And that includes me as well. You can wake me up in the middle of the night for good chocolate. He asked me if I knew if the statement that “chocolate…
What I always forget to mention about our Olive Oil
This week I was talking with a colleague about using olive oil for baking meat and fish, among other things. When I give someone an example of “our” olive oil, I tell not to use it for baking and frying, but now I realized that I hardly ever mentioned why not to do this. First…
Recipe books
Today I went out to look for a recipe book about salads, as I wanted to have new suggestions and ideas. I felt a little “dried up” on this. I succeeded in buying a very nice and complete book on salads. The “Saladebijbel” will bring me many new recipes and a lot of new ideas….
Red Curry Paste (make it yourself)
This weekend I am planning to make a dish with sea bass. One of the needed ingredients is red curry paste. I was looking for it in a local supermarket, but could not find it (most likely I have overlooked it). So I did what I do mostly in such case, I called Miranda for…
Zapekanka
Begin this week a colleague was so kind to bring a dish from her homeland (and surrounding countries if I have understood correctly). This dish is called Zapekanka and she made it herself. Looking around on the internet it shows that Zapekanka originates to the Ukraine and Russia (and most likely some more countries…
As every year, new tea!
Autumn is here again and for me that means it is time to buy fresh tea again. I always try to get a nice mixture of white tea, green tea and black tea. Of course some teas that aren’t really teas (real tea is made of the leaves of the tea-plant, Camellia sinensis). For me…
Sea Bass for dinner
In Plomari, a city on the isle of Lesvos, there is a sea food restaurant called “The Seven Seas”. During our stay at Plomari we visited that restaurant 3 times. Yes, 3 times! The fish was just wonderful there. Twice I had a wonderful grilled sea bass there. So once back in The Netherlands I…