Food blog: Don’t Eat This

October 13, 2010
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  DO NOT EAT THIS are dedicated to uncovering food fraud and exposing edible imposters before they sneak past your innocent taste buds and sabotage your body. The donoteatthis blog has already complied some breathtaking images of food that we all should really avoid. The “Canned Whole Chicken” is one of the most disgusting things I have seen [...]

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Hanting Cuisine Top Restaurant in The Hague

October 12, 2010
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HanTing Cuisine wins top restaurant in The Hague in the SpecialBite guide 2011. It is no surprise that Chef Han’s newest restaurant has become one of the top 10 restaurants in The Netherlands. We ate there last year when it had just opened it doors and it was a real food lover treat. Chef Han is [...]

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Vegetarian Butcher opening in The Hague

October 11, 2010
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“Supermarkets and health food stores offer a growing variety of meat substitutes, aimed at vegans, vegetarians, flexitarians and everyone else who has decided to eat less meat. What we hadn’t yet spotted, however, was a store dedicated to meat substitutes in the same way a butcher is dedicated to meat. Filling that gap is De [...]

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Tunisian Djerbi Rice

October 8, 2010
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Looking for something else to cook in that couscous pan you bought last summer besides couscous? Rice djerbi is the perfect dish. Easy to prepare and worth the wait. Ingredients 400gr basmati rice 200 gr beef, thinly sliced 4 tbsp olive oil handful chickpeas 3 finely chopped onions 1 pack fresh spinach or frozen spinach [...]

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A Chick Pea Delight

October 4, 2010
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Indian cuisine can be as exotic or as light hearted as you want it to be. I love playing with flavors, giving traditional recipes a twist and cooking up something new. Ingredients 1 small tin chickpeas 1 small red onion  finely chopped 1-2 boiled potatoes finely chopped (tends to crumble when chopped, so needs a bit [...]

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Creme de Caramel au beurre sale

September 30, 2010
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  WOW if you ever see this in anybody’s kitchen claim it just like I did, it was love at first taste. Recipe links: Caramel au Beurre Salé (Homemade Sweet Caramel Salted Butter Sauce) Macaron Caramel au Beurre Salé  

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Crumpets, a small piece of butter heaven

September 25, 2010
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Crumpet is a savoury/sweet bread snack made from flour and yeast. It is eaten mainly in the United Kingdom and other nations of the Commonwealth. via: wikipedia Crumpets always remind me of Australia. Comfort food that I can not resist when I go to the English supermarkets here in The Hague. I almost didn’t buy them [...]

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Tunisia, traditional cooking

September 15, 2010
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“I can’t bear to taste a tagine that has been prepared in an electric oven,” Majeda al-Turki, a local resident of about 60, told Magharebia. “Different meats have a special flavour when cooked on a coal fire.” A Ramadan tour in old town Tunis gives a brief insight into traditional Ramadan cooking. The streets of [...]

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Msmen filled with minced beef

September 1, 2010

Ingredients Filling 200gr minced beef 1 onion 1 tbs olive oil 1 beef cube 1 teaspoon tabil fresh ground black pepper to taste fresh coriander leaves Method Fry off onion in the olive oil, add the minced beef and brown off the meat. Add the rest of the ingredients and leave to cool. Make a quantity of the Msmen [...]

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Tunisian Doughnuts Forever

August 29, 2010

No trip to Tunisia is complete without visiting the little doughnut store in Sidi Bou Said. We went three times I think this summer to stock up the sugared delights. It is amazing how many doughnuts this little (tiny even) store makes. Location is of course everything and there is definitely no escape from the [...]

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Lazy Sunday Pizza

August 17, 2010

Pizza has many variations and styles, my favourite is the thin crusted type. I had some left over tomato sauce (recipe Jamie Oliver) waiting in the freezer for the right moment. While baking the Appelflappen I was thinking of something else to bake seeing as the oven was already on. I whipped together a quick pizzadough [...]

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Appelflap

August 16, 2010

The abundance of apples lead me to make ‘Appelflappen‘ today. Yesterday while the apple cake was baking I made apple sauce, the  most easiest recipe ever. Just peal, decor and chop the apple’s into small pieces. Heat a pan with a tiny amount of water in the bottom, add the apples, some sugar (if you [...]

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