Baking & Pastries

  • Turkish Börek with Spinach & Feta

    Turkish Börek with Spinach & Feta is a tasty vegetarian filo dough pie filled with earthy spinach and savoury feta. I have a love-hate relationship with filo pastry. I love to eat it, but it doesn’t always turn out as crispy as I would like it. When I asked a…

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  • Banana Date Bread with Lemon Drizzle

    This banana bread is super moist, luscious and packed with flavour. I served it with a lemon drizzle, and although this is optional, I would definitely recommend it. The cake soaks up the drizzle so well and brings it to another level. Banana bread is a great way to use…

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  • Bossche Bollen (Dutch Chocolate Eclairs)

    In 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, which is a province in the south of The Netherlands, is pretty…

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  • Spinach & Courgette Quiche served with Curried Minced Beef

    As mentioned before we’re slowly emptying out our freezer so we can defrost it. The freezer that never stops giving still has some surprises left, we can still make a chicken stock, there are some pita breads in there and beef stock. Last night I used up all the puff…

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  • Pasteis de Nata

    I love these little custard cinnamon bombs! Usually I just buy 1 in at a bakery or coffee shop, I didn’t realize how dangerous it was to make them yourself. The creamy cinnamon custard was amazing, tasted really authentic. And yes, I’m talking past tense here, we finished them all…

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  • Wrinkly Apple Pie Sauce

    I’m not a huge apple fan to eat just as is, I do buy them in the hope that I’ll change my ways and just start eating them as a snack, and it goes well for the first few but somehow I’m always left with a single wrinkly apple which…

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