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A Simple Fish Curry

8 August 2021

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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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Lentil du Puy Salad with a Lemon Honey Mustard Dre

Lentil du Puy Salad with a Lemon Honey Mustard Dressing and an Egg

You can also use green lentils for this, even canned lentils are fine if you’re in a hurry but I personally really like cooking my own lentils for that extra bit of bite. I boiled the lentils in vegetable stock for 25 minutes until still al dente, then rinse with cold water to stop the cooking process. In the meantime slowly sauté your vegetables, I used carrots, onion, garlic and celery, ± 10 minutes on low heat. Add the cooked lentils to the pan, give it a stir and remove from the heat.

The dressing is made in a jiffy, to a small bowl or sealable jar add olive oil, lemon juice (and zest if you have it), honey Dijon mustard, (wine) vinegar, pepper and salt. Stir or shake well until combine. Taste and adjust seasoning. When you’re happy with it, pour it over the warm veggie and lentil mix. Add some fresh herbs if you like, dill, mint, basil or parsley work great!

Serve as is to keep it vegan, or serve it with an egg (any style, I like soft boiled), or what about feta, halloumi, salmon or lamb chops for example? All delicious!

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Fennel & Orange Salad An oldie but a goodie. So s

Fennel & Orange Salad

An oldie but a goodie. So simple to make, super tasty to eat. I find the trick to this salad is to slice the fennel as thing as possible, I use a mandolin for this, but you can also use a vegetable peeler. For the dressing you just need some olive oil, pepper, salt and something acidic like lemon juice or (wine) vinegar and maybe a pinch of chili flakes. The sweetness comes from the oranges so everything is in balance.

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Roasted Aubergine & Courgette with an Ansjovis and

Roasted Aubergine & Courgette with an Ansjovis and Fresh Oregano Dressing

Every time I leafed through @ottolenghi ‘s cookbook Simple, I thought: Hey! I need to make this! Anyway, it’s taken a few years but I’ve finally got around to it. And oh man, why did I wait so long?! It’s sooooo good!

Charred aubergine and caramelized courgettes coated in a savoury and tangy ansjovis and oregano dressing. It’s just absolutely amazing! Ottolenghi only uses aubergines in his recipe but I had a courgette lying around, which works great as well.

Another good thing about this dish? It can we eaten cold or at room temperature, so also easy to prep ahead. You can eat it as is, but I think pressed onto a crunchy bruschetta this would be super tasty too!

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Chilled Lemon Yoghurt with Hot Charred Tomatoes T

Chilled Lemon Yoghurt with Hot Charred Tomatoes

This is a recipe based on an @ottolenghi dish. The original is super tasty, but requires a bit more time and a bit more ingredients. I wanted to keep it as simple as possible, it was Sunday after all, and I was already making a few other dishes. Glad to say this turned out super tasty as well!

The yoghurt is mixed with lemon zest, seasoned with pepper and salt and then returned to the fridge to chill. The tomatoes I halved, coated in olive oil, pepper, salt, a pinch of chipotle chilli flakes and a sprig of rosemary. Roast for 30 minutes at 220°C until the tomatoes are nice and charred and the juices are flowing out. Just before the tomatoes are ready, spread the yoghurt over a plate and then top off with the sizzling tomatoes, don’t forget to include the juices, this is liquid gold!

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Sunday Veggie Dinner Quite happy with all these l

Sunday Veggie Dinner

Quite happy with all these little dishes, Ottolenghi inspired but mainly just made from memory. What the dishes are? Lemon yoghurt with sizzling roasted tomatoes, fennel & orange salad, lentil du put salad with lemon, honey and dijon mustard dressing and a poached egg and the showstopper of the night: roasted aubergine and courgette with an ansjovis and oregano dressing. Yummmm!

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Rhubarb Roasted in a Vanilla and Orange Syrup with

Rhubarb Roasted in a Vanilla and Orange Syrup with Yoghurt Mousse

Whipped vanilla cream folded into rich greek yoghurt, rhubarb roasted in an orange and vanilla syrup, topped off with crunchy almond cookies….. Oh boy, this dessert is devilishly good, and only to be eaten on the weekend!

I’ve never made rhubarb before, no idea why not, it’s absolutely delicious and so much easier than I thought! It literally just needs 15 minutes of roasting at 180°C and you’re done! More rhubarb for us this summer! Any favourite rhubarb recipes out there?

For more recipes see the link in my bio!

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Serrano Ham, Olive & Lemon Albondigas in a Rich To

Serrano Ham, Olive & Lemon Albondigas in a Rich Tomato & Sherry Sauce

I’ve been supple busy lately, so taking time to cook & experiment has been on the side line for a while, to be honest I lost a bit of the inspiration and energy to come up with new dishes. I’m glad I could fall back on so many old recipes, it sure made Rob happy! Today my recipe wishlist is at an all time high so I can’t wait to get back into it!

Yesterday I made a Tapas dinner, which is quite challenging for just 2 people to be honest. So it became more of a meal than small bites and I stil have loads left over but it was great nevertheless.

These little meatballs are flavoured with serrano ham, green olives and lemon zest and then cooked in a rich tomato and sherry sauce. Wowie such great flavours! Thanks @chefrickstein for this great little recipe!

I served it with a potato salad dressed in olive oil, vinegar, parsley and spring onions, spicy and garlicky gamba’s al ajillo, some bread to dip up all the juices and a lovely crisp gris rosé wine.

For this and more recipes see the link in my bio!

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Kimchi Coconut Chicken Noodle Soup A twist on my

Kimchi Coconut Chicken Noodle Soup

A twist on my usual kimchi chicken noodle soup by adding a few additional ingredients, and oh wow, what an umami bomb! Ok ok, I don't think this is a really authentic recipe as I added ingredients from pretty much the whole of Asia. But hey, I have them all at home, so why not use them!

Normally I flavour this soup with just ginger, garlic, sesame oil, soy sauce, kimchi and gojuchang, but now I also added: lime leaves, lemon grass, Thai red curry paste, miso paste and coconut milk. Yes! A winner ;-)

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Rigatoni with Fresh Oregano Lemon Pesto & Oven Roa

Rigatoni with Fresh Oregano Lemon Pesto & Oven Roasted Tomatoes

Ooooh summer, so good to finally have you here. Fruit and vegetables are at their best and our little herb garden is growing like crazy. Especially oregano, not only is it a winterhard and very pretty plant (with flowers for the bees), it also just keeps on growing. The taste is quite subtle, so you can’t really overdo it in a dish, so I decided to make a fresh oregano pesto with lemon zest. Wowie, so good!

Served with the slow roasted tomatoes from my previous post, the golden liquid emulsifying with the pesto sauce and you’ve got one hell of a meal! Eat it as is to keep it vegetarian, or serve it with a simple pan fried fish (Red Sea bass in this case). Enjoy!

Thanks @polagreg for the oregano plant ;)

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Oven Roasted Tomato Sauce Welllll, sauce might no

Oven Roasted Tomato Sauce

Welllll, sauce might not be the right word. After the tomatoes have roasted for about 40 minutes, you’re left with blistered tomatoes swimming in their own liquid gold, this is pretty much it. No blending, or sauce making actually happens. The juices are truly to die for.

The recipe: Preheat the oven to 200°C. Halve 500 g cocktail tomatoes (so the ones slightly bigger than cherry tomatoes), add a few cloves of garlic (peels on), toss in a good glug of olive oil, season with pepper and salt, and place in the oven. Roast for 30 minutes. Sprinkle some fresh oregano and or basil and roast for another 10 minutes. Et Voilà! Sauce done!

There are so many ways to serve this sauce: tossed with your pasta of choice, dip ip the juices with some bread, serve it with some whipped lemon feta. So many choices!

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Chicken Piri Piri with Spicy Tomato Rice and Grill

Chicken Piri Piri with Spicy Tomato Rice and Grilled Pepper Salsa

Tangy lemon, spicy chili’s, sweet paprika and loads of other goodness marinating the chicken legs for 24 hours and then roasted until crispy and tender yum!

The sauces? The marinade simmered down to a dipping sauce and grilled pepper salsa, so easy!

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Moroccan Chickpea Stew with Spinach, Apricots and

Moroccan Chickpea Stew with Spinach, Apricots and Feta

A great little one pot wonder, a vegetarian stew that’s on the table within 30 minutes and packed full of veggies and flavour. Warming Moroccan spices contrasted with sweet apricots. Yum!

Earlier this year I developed a few summer recipes for @crisp_nl , go to their site for more great recipes and products!

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Yoghurt and fruit popsicles: forest fruit & banana

Yoghurt and fruit popsicles: forest fruit & banana with pomegranate molasses

Wow this weekend's going to be a scorscher! Definitely weather for some refreshing snacks and I love making these yoghurt popsicles, you can vary the ingredients and flavours as you please! I did have to photograph super quickly though, they were melting on the spot 😉

For this and more recipes see the link in my bio.

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Greek Lemon Potatoes More of these please! Wow t

Greek Lemon Potatoes

More of these please! Wow these are fantastic! Crispy outside, fluffy inside baked in a tangy, savoury marinade, really delicious. I served it with a greek salad and beef bifteki. A true summer dish.

Recipe inspired my @mygreekdish

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Bifteki with Lemon Potatoes and Greek Salad A lov

Bifteki with Lemon Potatoes and Greek Salad

A lovely summer dish. Ground beef or lamb spiced with parsley, oregano, onion, mint, thyme and parsley and stuffed with fresh salty feta, cooked until charred and crispy and the cheese starts to melt. Love it! This recipe is inspired by @seriouseats.

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BBQ-ed Mussels Want to try something different on

BBQ-ed Mussels

Want to try something different on the BBQ? Then try these mussels! Super easy and super tasty, the perfect finger food snack for a group of people.

All you need to add to the pan are some spring onions and a sprinkle piment d’espelette or chili flakes. Cover the BBQ and let steam until the mussels open.

Julien also grilled a lemon earlier on on the BBQ and added it to the mussels later on.

Execution and recipe is from the amazing @julienmaingois

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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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White Asparagus Pie with Warm Smoked Salmon I lov

White Asparagus Pie with Warm Smoked Salmon

I love white asparagus the classic way with boiled baby potatoes, parsley, ham and melted butter, but sometimes a new twist on an old classic is great as well.

The base is puff pastry, the sauce is crème fraîche with dill and parsley and the filling of course is white asparagus (blanched for 5 minutes) with soft boiled eggs and warm smoked salmon. Baked in the oven for 20-25 minutes until the base is nice and crisp. Welcome spring!

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Sautéed Peppers with Chickpeas and Balsamico Thi

Sautéed Peppers with Chickpeas and Balsamico

This is a great healthy side dish, packed full of flavour and look at those colours! The peppers are slowly charred and then sautéed in a tomato sauce until softened, it takes about 30 minutes, but the result is delicious. At the end deglaze the pand with balsamico vinegar for a tangy and sweet finish.

You can serve the peppers as is or make it into more of a meal by adding chickpeas and some crumbles feta on top.

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Stuffed Aubergine with Lamb Wow this stuffed aube

Stuffed Aubergine with Lamb

Wow this stuffed aubergine packs a punch! Although in the picture it looks a bit black and dry, the stuffing itself was juicy and rich and scrumptious. We were just too hungry to wait for another picture, so you’ll just have to take my word for it ;-).

This time I served it with a sautéed peppers & chickpea salad, but loads of side dishes would go well with this: couscous, bulgur, grilled vegetables, you name it!

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