The book on the picture above is a cookery book and a rather old one. The book is called “Ik kan koken” (“I can cook”) and it belonged to my mother. I have known this book all my life and now it is standing between much modern books of Jamie Oliver, Pierre Wind and 24Kitchen…
Category: Food and Stuff
Life is there to… have backup’s and tea!
Maybe a weird combination… backup’s and tea. Well, not for me… at least not today. Let me explain. Today two packages were delivered to my house. The first package contained two external hard disks (see how fast they gather dust, they were not for more than 5 minutes on that desk)… Backup’s of my computers…
Deer steak with red wine sauce
Yesterday I made for Sanne, Marion and me deer steak with red win sauce. Served chicory with cheese and baked potatoes with bacon, union and egg. At first I rubbed in the steaks with some salt (no pepper yet). Baked them first in olive oil so all sides were friend. After that I added butter…
Spaghetti with codfish
As Marion and I have been away most of the afternoon, I was not in the mood to make a complicated dinner that would that a long time to prepare. But still I wanted to make something nice… I had some codfish (Dutch: “Kabeljauw”) in the refrigerator and that remembered me of a recipe I…
Guinea fowl (“Parelhoen”)
Yesterday I tried to make a nice and special dinner for Marion and me. After all it is good to be together again after 4 weeks… Something with Guinea Fowl (Dutch: “Parelhoen”) sounded as a good plan! I tried to make a nice decorated table of it. Some candles, a nice red rose, a nice…
This weekend: Welcome visitor and a chicory oven dish
Last Friday my friend Patrick came over from Oldenzaal, the town in the eastern part of The Netherlands where he lives. Patrick and I know each other a long and we were once direct colleagues. For all kind of reasons it has been some time that we got together for a beer and such. As…
A marrowfat peas dish
Even when Marion is not around I take good care of my food. It is even an opportunity to make something that Marion doesn’t really like… marrowfat peas (“kapucijners”) for example. Marrowfat peas dishes are in my opinion really for the winter when it is really cold outside. The recipe I wanted to try I…
An Indian dinner
Yesterday I made the Indian dinner for Marion and me that I had planned last weekend… I have to say it was fun to make. All those herbs and spices… just wonderful to work with. I have rather some herbs and spices that I hadn’t before and that is great (although storing all these start…
A nice steak…
Today I was not in the mood to cook a big dinner. Lets just say I was lazy. But still I wanted to serve something nice to eat for us… I baked some steaks medium done. That is the way both Marion and I like it. Some pepper, some salt and nothing more then that….
Hare fillet
Time to prepare some good food for Marion and me again. And to make up for the last weekends I decided to make something special. As starter I made a beef carpaccio. On the beef some rucola, Parmesan cheese and pine nuts. Over it a dressing made of olive oil, vinegar, mustard, pesto, honey and…