Next to our allotment stands a beautiful elder tree. Nothing better than working in the garden when he’s in blossom. The smell is just irresistible. Luckily this beautiful smell can easily be preserved in syrup and then used for refreshing drinks, flavoring desserts or ice…
You’ll need: lovely ripe tomatoes basil fennel seeds lemon zest good olive oil buffala mozzarella salt and pepper We fell in love with this variation of the caprese salad. Instead of the traditional seasoning crush some fennel seeds in a mortar. Add some salt and…
We had big plans for these woman-kids holidays in sardinia. We brought tons of cookbooks along and saw ourselves trying out plenty of new recipes. But as usual things turned out quite different. The mornings at the house were spent drinking to much coffee and…
My new favorite comes from ottolenghi. It’s dead simple and extremely delicious. You’ll need: 300 gr rocket a little olive oil 2 eggs Greek yoghurt salt and pepper 50 gr butter 1/2 garlic glove 6 sage leaves chili flakes Fry the rocket for 3 minutes…
I like to experiment with ready made pasta dough. Even though I’d love to get a pasta thing for my kitchen aid. But we live next to a pasta “factory” where we can buy the dough. You even get it in supermarkets these days. This…
I’ve been complaining about my lack of coming up with my own recipe here before, all the more I’m proud to present one now. It seems I’m better with sweet dishes than with salty ones. We were invited to a friends place and had nothing…
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Thanks to the BBC ipad app I can finally watch Nigel slaters simple supper series. I guess it’s not really surprising that I also love his tv show – a fan is a fan after all. But seriously it’s great! He just knows how to…
We left our favorite cook book shop – “Books for cooks” with this little gem. A “thesaurus” of different flavour combinations. Former marketing executive Niki Segnit has taken 99 flavours (from potato and cucumber to black pudding and washed-rind cheese) and grouped them into hundreds…
Heston at home is the first cook book that I bought in a while and it’s totally different from the books I usually buy. But having seen his show Heston’s Mission Impossible on Channel 4 I’m a bit of a fan. Particularly the episode where…
