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Welcome to my page! My name is Saffron, I'm a freelance photographer living in Amsterdam. I’m not a chef but a passionate cook and lover of all things food. With this site I'd like to share my passion and knowledge and maybe even inspire you to go on an adventurous food journey as well.

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Pappardelle with Slow Cooked Lamb Shanks & Spicy Lamb Broth

27 January 2022

Baked Potato with Charred Chicken Caesar Salad

25 January 2022

Chocolate Pudding

23 January 2022

Ayam Masak Sambal Tumis (Indonesian Stir Fried Spicy Chicken)

23 January 2022

Cauliflower Steaks with Walnut, Caper & Lemon Salsa

20 January 2022

Throwback Thursday! I made this dish for the first

Throwback Thursday! I made this dish for the first time exactly a year ago (and quite a few times after): Saag with Crispy Spicy Paneer

The next day the house still smelled like a Balti restaurant, but who cares! I only recently started cooking with paneer and now I really love it, I’ll try some new recipes with it soon. My favourite it to spice and season the paneer cubes and then fry them until crispy. Served with freshly fried pappadums. Yum!

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Pappardelle with Slow Cooked Lamb Shanks & Spicy L

Pappardelle with Slow Cooked Lamb Shanks & Spicy Lamb Broth

Thanks @nigellalawson for this amazing recipe! I saw it come by on Saturday Kitchen on BBC last weekend and added it on my list to make for the following week. Silky soft fall off the bone lamb, spicy aromatic broth, al dente noodles and crunch cabbage. What a dish!

This is such a simple recipe, it does take some time and planning (slowcooking for 2.5 hours and resting over night) but it’s hardly any work at all. Just add all the ingredients together and wait.

The lamb shanks are slowly cooked in the oven in a broth made of gochujang, star anise, ginger, garlic, shallots, all spice and carrots. Then you leave it to cool and rest overnight (up to 3 nights). When ready to assemble slowly heat everything up in a pan and carefully tear the meat off the bones, this will go super easily. I felt the broth missed a little bit of depth, so I added half a beef stock cube, a pinch of sugar, a squeeze of lemon juice and some extra salt. Uuuummmmaammi in a bowl!

Recipe is now online, see the link in my bio!

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Leftover Baked Potato Salad with Chicken, Tomatoes

Leftover Baked Potato Salad with Chicken, Tomatoes & Cottage Cheese

I made a few extra baked potatoes the night before, somehow I thought Rob would eat 3 and I would eat 2. Haha, in hindsight I don’t know what I was thinking! (We had 1 each for dinner)

Anyway, waste not want not! I made an amazing lunch with the leftovers. Because they’re already cooked all what is needed is to crisp them up in a frying pan. I sliced the potatoes lengthwise, so you’re left with 2 large thinnish halves. Fry slowly, cut side down, in some olive oil. Season well and serve with whatever you have lying around. Perfect!

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Baked Potato with Charred Chicken Caesar Salad Hm

Baked Potato with Charred Chicken Caesar Salad

Hmmmmm baked potato! Soft, golden and fluffy potato with a crispy roasted and salty skin, so good! There are so many ways to stuff a baked potato but I really like this combo with chicken Caesar salad.

I always make my own Caesar salad mayonnaise, you just can’t beat the fresh flavours of making it form scratch. While the potato was baking the chicken marinated in a mix of lemon juice, lemon zest, pepper, garlic, salt, oregano, paprika and olive oil. When grilled until charred it instantly brings you to the Mediterranean.

For the recipe see the link in my bio!

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Chocolate Pudding Wow what a dessert! I’m not

Chocolate Pudding

Wow what a dessert! I’m not usually a big fan of puddings, at least not the store-bought ones, they always taste and feel quite artificial to me. But making it from scratch is a life changer, I promise you you’ll be making this for dinner parties and will truly impress your friends.

It’s a bit like chocolate mousse, but rather more creamy than fluffy. To make you feel a little less giilty you can use low fat milk instead of full dat. But really… who are you kidding, chocolate pudding is not meant to be healthy!

Serve it with some whipped cream and chocolate shavings, or for even more decadence add some raspberries and toasted hazelnuts, you can easily mix it up. I’m even thinking of making it with white chocolate and raspberry coulis marbled through it. Yes! Can’t wait to try that one too!

This recipe is from the amazing @foodfromclaudnine

For the recipe see the link in my bio!

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Ayam Masak Sambal Tumis (Indonesian Stir Fried Spi

Ayam Masak Sambal Tumis (Indonesian Stir Fried Spicy Chicken)

I was actually planning on making Nasi Lemak, which is a Malaysian dish with coconut milk rice, ansjovis sambal, toasted peanuts and sliced cucumber. I changed my mind last minute because I had some chicken pieces and I wanted to make something with these. In the end I opted for this spicy & hearty stir fried chicken dish. Super tasty!

The rice I cooked in salted water, but I added a few lime leaves for fragrance and flavour. I served it simply with some crispy fried ansjovis (ready bought from the toko), crispy sambal tempeh, fried & salted peanuts and some cucumber slices. It would also be great with Ikan Bilis which is an crispy ansjovis sambal.

All in all very simple but very tasty. The one thing I’ll do differently next time though is use smaller chicken pieces. The chicken we have in the Netherlands are way bigger than in Indonesia. So a chicken leg is quite big and will take longer to cook. I think I’ll stick to chicken thighs and wings next time.

For the recipe see the link in my bio.

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Spiced Sugar & Pear sourdough Pancakes Since I st

Spiced Sugar & Pear sourdough Pancakes

Since I started baking sourdough bread my sourdough starter supply has been growing like crazy, luckily there are loads of other recipes out there to make with sourdough starter apart from bread. Crackers, focaccia, muffins, so much to choose from!

This morning I went for pancakes. We still had a few pears lying around which were almost past their best by date, so I decided to add them as well. Usually I grate the pears in, but i thought I’d try caramelizing them and they came our great! I added a little sprinkle of spiced sugar on the pears to help caramelize them a bit extra.

For thd recipe see the link in my bio!

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Fish Pie I made some extra potato mash the other

Fish Pie

I made some extra potato mash the other day, with the sole purpose of either making it into a shepherds pie or a fish pie. Well, fish pie it is! Mashed potatoes freeze very well, as long as you have enough butter and milk in it to stop it forming ice crystals.

I started by poaching smoked mackerel and raw cod in milk together with an onion, cloves and bay leaves. This poaching liquid I used to make a flavourful roux to thicken the sauce, so much flavours!

The filling consisted of leeks, peas, prawns and the poached fish. I layered this thick luscious filling in a baking dish, and sprinkled it with parsley and lemon zest. The potato mash is spread out over the top studded with butter cubes. Bake for 35-40 minutes and you’ve got an amazing pie! Served with a leafy green salad with a simple vinegar dressing to balance out the richness of the pie. Yum!

Recipe inspired by @bbcgoodfood , also see the video in my reels.

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Penne alla Bolognese A classic case of: I don’t

Penne alla Bolognese

A classic case of: I don’t want to leave the house, what can I make with the ingredients I have lying around?

I usually always have onions, garlic, bay leaves, cans of tomatoes, tomato paste, celery, carrots, pasta and parmesan cheese lying around. And that’s pretty much all you need for a good Bolognese sauce, oh and some ground beef which I had in the freezer.

For extra flavouring I also added half a beef stock cube, a splash of red wine, salt, pepper, sugar and a small drop of red wine vinegar to balance out the sweetness.

All in all, this meant I didn’t have to leave the house and could stay in my PJ’s all day while the sauce was slowly bubbling away for a few hours. This is the kind of working from home I like.

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Black Bean Chicken Stir Fry & Roasted Flour Sprout

Black Bean Chicken Stir Fry & Roasted Flour Sprouts

At the market I came across these adorable little green flours, flower sprouts, have you ever heard of them? They’re like a crossing between kale and Brussel sprouts. Leafy and dark like kale, earthy and cutely small like sprouts. To be honest I was a bit at a loss how to prepare them.

I decided to simply roast them coated with olive oil, pepper and salt and when crispy and just cooked through I added them to a black bean and chicken stir fry. The stir fry is just as good without the flour sprouts, but delicious with as well.

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Miso Glazed Aubergine with Soba Noodles & Crispy F

Miso Glazed Aubergine with Soba Noodles & Crispy Fried Smoked Tofu

Soft, charred aubergine glazed with an umami dressing of miso, ginger, sake and loads of other goodies, garlicky & gingery soba noodles with a mirin and soy sauce dressing, crispy fried smoked tofu for crunch, pickled cucumber and a soft boiled egg for extra yumminess, absolutely divine. Of course you can leave the egg out to keep the dish vegan!

If you don’t have much time you can also easily leave the miso glazed aubergine our, but I promise you it won’t disappoint!

This is a recipe from last October already but it’s taken me that long to actually write it out and add it to my site. Not because it’s a difficult dish to make but because a I came up with it on the spot and really had to go through all my notes and figure out the amounts and how I made it.

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Throwback to a year ago today, when it was snowing

Throwback to a year ago today, when it was snowing. Oooooh this was a good one!

Irish Seafood Chowder & Irish Coffee for Dessert

I’ve been cooking dishes representing the countries that my colleagues are from and this week it’s Jim’s turn, he’s from Ireland.

My first thought was to make something with Guinnes, like a beef stew or so. Jim suggested making a seafood chowder as there’s loads of seafood on Ireland, makes sense as it’s an island ;-)

Best of all, this wintery, snowy weather is perfect for a soup, although to be honest I can see myself eating this dish all year round.

I had to finish it off with an Irish coffee. Ok, ok, it’s not really cooking, but I loooove Irish coffee and order it when I can when I’m in a restaurant, so why not make it myself!

For recipe link in bio!

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