Surprisingly easy, super quick and soooo tasty. This is a great lazy, weekday or weekend dish full of flavour and made within 20 minutes! I had a whole bunch of parsley and a wilting basil plant which I needed to use up, the easiest is to make it into herb…
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Continue ReadingPacked with vegetables and flavoured with smokey bacon and thyme, this lentil, smokey bacon and thyme soup with spinach and dill is the perfect one-pot meal when you’re after something wholesome, comforting and quick to prepare. It’s warming without being heavy, and flexible enough to suit what you’ve got in…
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Continue ReadingI made these lovely little parcels for Chinese New Years. I’ve made dumplings quite often and always struggled a bit with the folding, in the end I just tended to scrunch up the top and leave it at that. That’s fine as well, they will still taste great. But this…
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Continue ReadingSimple, comforting and warming, a great winter dish. I usually make sauerkraut with mashed potatoes and smoked sausage, but I thought I’d try something new this time: with crispy Pastrami and mustard gravy. I love the combination. I crisped up the pastrami for a few minutes under the grill.
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Continue ReadingIn the Netherlands we’re not really well known for our haute cuisine, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have good food. We have some amazing stews, soups, stamppots, seasonal dishes, seafood, sweets and snacks in our repertoire. Brabant is pretty well known for their worstenbroodjes (sausage rolls) and their Bossche…
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Continue ReadingI came across this recipe for Mapo Ragù in the online New York Times Cooking magazine, I love scrolling through their ideas for inspiration, apart from great photography they have easy to follow and tasty recipes. With this dish the chefs Chefs Chang and Tien Ho (from New Yorks Momofuku)…
