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

26 June 2022

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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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Oma Beek’s Apple Pie

For the past few years I’ve baked an apple pie for my father-in-law’s birthday based on his mothers recipe with a few tweaks here and there.

Nothing beats the smell and taste of warm apple pie, I mean come on! Apples, butter, sugar, cinnamon, rum raisins, almonds paste and almond flakes, a dollop of freshly whipped cream…. So good!

I struggled with the pastry a little today because we’re in a heatwave in Amsterdam at the moment. The pie is as pretty as I had hoped but of so tasty!

Oh a nice, little side note, the table cloth was embroidered by my own Oma Sonja ;-)

See the link in my bio for the recipe!

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Vietnamese Bo La Lot: Marinated Pork & Beef Wrappe

Vietnamese Bo La Lot: Marinated Pork & Beef Wrapped in Betel Leaves

I wanted to bring something different to share to a BBQ so I decided to make something Vietnamese. Next to lemongrass chicken skewers I made these little parcels of goodness, oh wow they were a hit, they brought me straight back to the streets of Vietnam!

The beef and pork mince is flavoured lemongrass, shallot, garlic, fish sauce, sugar, salt and pepper. Then wrapped in betel leaves (use cabbage if you can’t find these in your Asian supermarket), thread them onto skewers and then grill for 3-4 minutes on both sides until nicely charred and cooked through.

I served them in baby gem leaves with some rice noodles, chopped roasted peanuts, a drizzle of Nước chấm (Vietnamese dipping sauce consisting of fish sauce, palm sugar, chilis, garlic and lime juice) and a small dollop of hoisin peanut butter sauce (my addition, not traditional).

I’m bringing these to every BBQ from now on!

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Asparagus & Mint Risotto with Smokey Bacon and Lem

Asparagus & Mint Risotto with Smokey Bacon and Lemon Zest Garlic Crumbs

Mint is one amazing herb, it can literally be used in hundreds of recipes. A refreshing drink? Add mint! A nice soup? Blend in some mint for flavour! A dessert? Add some mint! A salad? You’re missing mint! Risotto? Mint is the missing ingredient!

I bought a little plant from the supermarket a month or 2 back and now it’s grown into a little green monster, it’s super strong and just keeps on going.

I added it to this asparagus risotto dish, finely shredded and mixed through at the end. I promise you it works, try it!

Oh, and another great ingredient for soups, pasta’s, salads - you name it - is bread crumbs toasted in olive oil, garlic granules and finished off with lemon zest.

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Tom Kha Gai Man oh man I love soup. I used to be

Tom Kha Gai

Man oh man I love soup. I used to be a Soup Sister, together with one of my besties I sold soup at markets and events. Soups of all kinds, simple vegetable soups, more elaborate stewy soups, from scratch chicken soups. Finished off with lovely toppings like roasted garlic, koriander, basil oil, croutons, grilled chicken, feta etc. Soup must be the most versatile dish of them all.

Strange that we actually never made Tom Kha Gai, to be honest I had no idea it was so simple. Not sure why I’m surprised, most Thai dishes are super simple with super fresh ingredients.

This authentic Tom Kha Gai, inspired by @seonkyounglongest is done within 20 minutes, including all the chopping! So what’s stopping you, get souping!

For the recipe see the link in my bio!

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Penne with a sauce of Tomato, Basil, Sausage and R

Penne with a sauce of Tomato, Basil, Sausage and Ricotta

What a great one pot wonder! Also great to make ahead of time (just add the ricotta just before serving)

This recipe is inspired by a dish from @foodfromclaudnine but then adjusted to the ingredients I had at home 😉

I started by sautéing an onion and garlic in a good glug of olive oil, then I added some broken up sausage meat and fried that off until starting to go crispy. I added some fresh oregano, 2 whole branches of basil and ± 500g quartered cocktail tomatoes. Season with a pepper, salt, a teaspoon of sugar and some chili (fresh or dried, whatever you prefer).

Let bubble away until the juice of the tomatoes create a golden sauce, a sauce which is infusing with the basil. Let simmer for ± 15 minutes. Remove the basil and add the ricotta. Give it a good stir and mix through your al dente pasta until well coated.

Serve with some fresh basil, some extra ricotta and chili flakes. Yum!

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Chicken Parmigiana with Roasted Baby Potatoes and

Chicken Parmigiana with Roasted Baby Potatoes and Haricots Vert (and Mayo)

Mondays, blegh, I never know what to cook. I’m never in the mood to cook but always in the mood to eat something nice to kick off the week. This is one of those dishes that ticks all the boxes: Low effort to whip together, great taste and super comforting, even feeling a bit healthy.

I started by halving and roasting the baby potatoes, coated in olive oil, pepper and salt at 200°C for 25 minutes. The last 8 minutes I added the haricots vert, so they cook through but stayed crunchy. I hate soggy veggies.

To coat the chicken breasts I usually use a mix of flour, egg and then seasoned parmesan bread crumbs. But….. Rob had eaten the eggs for lunch and I was too lazy to go out again. I skipped the flour and eggs and just pressed the parmesan bread crumbs firmly into the chicken breasts, it worked a charm!

Serve with a slice of lemon and a dollop of mayo and you’ve got a great Monday evening meal!

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Sous Vide Beef Short Ribs I was working this Sat

Sous Vide Beef Short Ribs

I was working this Saturday so I couldn’t join another one of @julienmaingois ‘s amazing BBQ’s in the park, but luckily, the great guy that Julien is, he saved me a piece of beef short rib.

I just had it now as a little snack and it was ridiculous. I mean this guy really knows how to prepare meat! Slowly cooked in a sous vide until perfection and then pan fried on all sides until crispy, sprinkled with some rosemary and flakey sea salt. Oh my….

The meat was ordered at @inamood.nl , great quality meat!

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Roasted Carrot & Fennel Soup with Miso and Ginger

Roasted Carrot & Fennel Soup with Miso and Ginger and Miso Glazed Mushrooms

A warming soup with summer vegetables for a rainy summer day. The heat of the ginger gives a nice warmth, the roasted carrots, fennel and garlic add a deep, dark and sweet note, the miso glazed mushrooms add just the right amount of umami and bite. A great warming summer soup!

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Linguine with Bottarga & Lemon Friends brought s

Linguine with Bottarga & Lemon

Friends brought some bottarga over from Sardinia a few months ago, I was waiting for a special occasion to cook with it. The special occasions kept being moved so I found that this normal Saturday was special enough.

I actually wanted to make linguine vongole with bottarga but the vongole was sold out everywhere so I decided to just keep it in it’s purest form and make it all about the bottarga.

The subtle seafood flavour is just delicious. First I infused a good glue of olive oil with crushed garlic by slowly letting it simmer away for 10 minutes. Then I added chili flakes and let bubble away for 30 seconds. Take off from the heat and add a good amount of finely grated bottarga to the hot garlicky oil. Stir well so the bottarga can dissolve a bit.

I cooked the linguine in less water than I usually do, this way the pasta water is extra starchy and great to thicken the sauce with. When the pasta is done I whisked about 1 cup of pasta water through the bottarga to create a creamy sauce.

Seasoned with salt, pepper, parsley and a squeeze of lemon juice, some extra bottarga grated over the top and you're good to go. Sooooo good! I served it with a simple tomato salad, a perfect regular Saturday meal.

Thanks @michelesecchiphotography and Garance for the bottarga!

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Bruschetta with Romanesco & Ansjovis A great litt

Bruschetta with Romanesco & Ansjovis

A great little make-ahead appetizer which is put together within 15 minutes. What a tasty little dish! The earthy romanesco goes so well with the ansjovis, At first glance it might feel that that ansjovis will be overpowering, but it adds just the right amount of salty notes and blends in amazingly with the romanesco. Truly delicious.
I love going to the farmers market on Saturdays, I always come across (and buy) way too many things. But that taste is just so much better!

There’s a great little bread stall on the Noordermarkt in Amsterdam, I was looking for a baguette to make these bruschetta but then I this amazing focaccia caught my eye: shiny and crunch crust, studded with rosemary and salt flakes and amazingly puffy! So… no bruschetta from baguette tonight, but from toasted focaccia instead! But feel free to use the bread you like of course ;-)

The recipe is from the cookbook Venice from the chef Russel Norman (owner of @polpo_restaurants ). I used Romanesco instead of Broccoli, but it will taste pretty much the same.

For the recipe see the link in my bio!

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Crispy Chili Beef with Bok Choy & Steamed Rice Ya

Crispy Chili Beef with Bok Choy & Steamed Rice

Yay! A new Chinese dish which is an absolute winner. You do need a few ingredients but I had everything in my pantry, so all I needed to get was the beef and the bok choy. I would really recommend in slowly building up you pantry with some staple ingredients so you can make what you want when you feel like it without having to go to a speciality store.

Anyway, what is it? Beef strips marinaded in an onion, garlic and soy sauce paste, then coated in potato starch and deep fried in a wok for a few minutes until crispy. The sauce is a mix of honey, soy sauce, hoisin, Shaoxing wine, sesame oil and rice vinegar.

When the sauce is bubbling, thicken it with some corn starch and add the crispy beef, toss to coat and serve immediately. Sprinkle some fresh chilis and spring onion over the top and I promise you you wish you would have made more!

Recipe inspired by @allwaysdelicious

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Asparagus, Courgette & Pea Risotto with Smokey Bac

Asparagus, Courgette & Pea Risotto with Smokey Bacon

I love green asparagus in the summer! I picked up a bunch at our local farmers market last weekend and since the temperatures have reached epic summer heights I felt it was time to make an epic summer dish. Simple, but oh so tasty.

The trick to a good risotto? Steaming hot stock! For the stock I boiled some left over asparagus peelings I had in the freezer from earlier this spring. I added some pepper corns, a bay leaf and a chicken stock cube for extra flavour and simmered it for 20 minutes.

In a large high rimmed pan fry off some smokey bacon until crispy. Remove with a slotted spoon and sauté a finely chopped shallot and garlic in the bacon juices and some extra olive oil.

Add the arborio risotto rice to the pan and stir to coat the grains with the oily onion garlic mix. Deglaze with a good glue of white wine and when reduced add in some grated courgette for extra bite and flavour.

The courgette will pretty much disintegrate but will definitely add something extra even if it’s just the fact that it’s extra veggies ;-) Now it’s time to add the stock one ladle at a time, adding more each time the previous scoop has been soaked up by the rice. This will take ± 25 minutes, you need some patience.

Add some the raw asparagus in for the last 2-3 minutes together with some grated parmesan, stir carefully until the parmesan has melted. For the last minute add the peas. Super easy!

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20 minute Creamy Tomato & Spinach Sauce with Orzo

20 minute Creamy Tomato & Spinach Sauce with Orzo

Home alone today which usually means I order sushi, but I’ve been researching a few recipes for one of my projects so I thought I’d give it a try. Most of the time I can imagine a dish in my head, how the flavours and textures come together and I love it when it turns out as planned!

This little dish is so super simple and comes together while the orzo boiling, great for an easy Sunday or a busy weeknight.

Start by panfrying the salmon in some olive oil, ± 5-6 minutes until just cooked through and browned on all sides. Remove from the pan and set aside. In that same pan sauté a finely chopped onion and thinly sliced garlic. After about 2 minutes add a handful of halved cherry tomatoes. Let bubble away until the skins start to burst. You can help them along a bit by squishing the tomatoes with a wooden spoon so the juices come free, ± 3-4 minutes.

Add 2-3 tablespoons of Sun-dried tomato tapenade (aka pesto Rosso) and give it a good mix. In the meantime drain the orzo but save some of the pasta water.

To the tomato mix add 2-3 tablespoons or creme fraiche and give it a good stir. Pour in some pasta water to loosen it up and to create a rich sauce. Just before serving add in a few handfuls of spinach and mix until wilted, ± 1 minute and then you’re ready t serve!

Inspired by a recipe from @anna_s_table

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Steamed Artichoke with Lemon, Dijon and Mayo Dippi

Steamed Artichoke with Lemon, Dijon and Mayo Dipping Sauce

Artichoke, a true summer delicacy. One of those ingredients that people shy away from to make themselves, but which is oh so easy to prepare!

You can boil them in water, but I prefer to steam them together with some bay leaves, crushed garlic and a slice of lemon. This way no flavour gets lost!

Of course you also need a dipping sauce, I love keeping it simple: mayonnaise, lemon juice, dijon mustard, crushed black pepper and a drop of water to loosen it up a bit. Et Voila! Summer on a plate!

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Roasted Honey & Lemon Glazed Carrots with Roasted

Roasted Honey & Lemon Glazed Carrots with Roasted Garlic, Thyme, Feta and Coriander

What a mouthful for such a simple dish! I bought a bunch of carrots a few days ago without really having a plan what to make with them yet. Roasting must be one of my favourite ways to cook carrots, I love the charred pointy end bits, the crispy green tops and of course the carrots themselves.

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Broccoli & Mint Soup with Ricotta and Smoked Salmo

Broccoli & Mint Soup with Ricotta and Smoked Salmon

We love broccoli soup, we eat it pretty much weekly. Which also means that I need to mix it around now and then. Today I decided to add fresh mint from the garden and serve it with creamy ricotta and wild smoked salmon. The result? A lovely summery vitamin packed soup. Served with tomato salsa on crunchy Turkish bread. Yum!

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Broccoli & Mint Soup with Ricotta and Smoked Salmo

Broccoli & Mint Soup with Ricotta and Smoked Salmon

We love broccoli soup, we eat it pretty much weekly. Which aldi means that I need to mix it around now and then. Today I decided to add fresh mint from the garden and serve it with creamy ricotta and wild smoked salmon. The result? A lovely summery vitamin packed soup. Served with tomato salsa on crunchy Turkish bread. Yum!

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Red Lentil, Tomatoes and Red Peppers Soup served w

Red Lentil, Tomatoes and Red Peppers Soup served with Quick Flatbread Pizzas

A comforting soup, with Middle Eastern flavours and packed with vegetables. Perfect for a summer week day, or a winter weekend day or an autumn afternoon, whenever really!

I served it with flatbread pizza's, which are basically just (whole wheat) flatbreads topped with grated cheese, fresh oregano, pepper, salt and olive oil and roasted for 5-7 minutes until crispy and cheesy.

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Chicken Piccata Pan-fried succulent chicken, with

Chicken Piccata

Pan-fried succulent chicken, with a buttery lemon and caper gravy, truly finger licking good! I served it with smashed potatoes and steamed green beans, a perfect combo.

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