brunch
I love to brunch. Saturday and sunday noon we sit down for a extended brunch. Nice food and good music. The table is right next to the turntables so during our meals music and food always sort of mixes. This was a pretty extensive one,…
Month: December 2009
Tom Aikens Fish
Another cook book I recently bought is Fish by Tom Aikens. I can only recommend it, especially to people who like fish but are concerned by the state of our oceans and fish stock. “We are constantly being told about the benefits of eating fish…
Nigel Slater “Tender”
I just bought the new cookbook from Nigel Slater and adore it. All about vegetables in the kitchen and in the garden. The perfect book for a cook with his own vegetable patch like myself. It’s the first cookbook I read like a book. I…
Coeur de sel xmas dinner
Last saturday we had our annual coeur de sel xmas dinner. The men were djing the night before and were still fighting their hangovers. The woman had a nice bottle of wine with their racelette while looking after the kids and therefore were tired to.…
Mixed green salad leaves with luke warm beetroot and roquefort
I’m about to discover the beetroot. Thanks to nigel slaters new cook book “tender” . So far I was almost clueless what to do with a beetroot. I like them raw. I occasionally mad a raw beetroot salad with sesame. I tried soup once but…
Profiteroles
Profiteroles are amongst my favorite desserts. I always order them in the restaurant if they are on the menu, but there are huge differences in the preparation and not all of them are equally nice. What you want is dark bitter chocolate over cold and…
Apricot Half Moons
An other new discover are these little fellows. All you need is good a biceps muscle. I didn’t expect it to be so hard to squeeze the pastry out of the icing bag. But after the first try I was already tired. This is an…
Chocolate Orange Trees ( or whatever)
I found an other cookie I really like, chocolate orange cookies. They are easy to make and already the dough is delicious ( important to me because I lick to pinch 😉 ). I’m not to much into all these christmas cookies that smell of…
Kids cookies
Yesterday we started making cookies, rather late I realized, last year we started a whole month earlier. Must be the weather, it was way to warm to get into christmas mood. As always we started with a kids cookie, hoping that while they are busy…
Quick asian something
This is one of our basics. Fast and delicious, perfect for one of the way to many working days when supper has to be quick. It turns out different every time depending on what is around. There are a few basics though: Brown rice Salmon…