I just love things en croute. Doesn’t everything taste better in a bit of (buttery) puff pastry? For me it does. Salmon en croute is my sinner&saint recipe. On the one hand the salmon is very healthy, but it is topped with herb cream cheese and tugged into buttery puff pastry…very unhealthy…though I think it…
Rainbow Carrots with Coriander Seeds and Maple Glaze
I noticed a pack of rainbow carrots in the vegetable isle of our local supermarket today. They looked so pretty and I could already hear them calling out my name. Of course I needed to buy them. Carrots are a delicately sweet vegetable and I wanted to prepare them in a way that brings out…
Indian Supermarkets in NL
I often use Indian ingredients that are hard to find in your normal supermarkets or even in Asian supermarkets. I love Indian cuisine, but needed quite some time to find some of the ingredients and pretty much roamed the entire cities of Amsterdam and The Hague to find the best stores. So safe yourself the…
Crispy Indian Crepes (Dosa)
We travelled to India last year for a 3 week holiday across the south of India (Kerala and Karnataka). We started our trip in Cochin, Kerala. This is where we discovered this amazing crispy and healthy dosa, which is eaten across the South as an all day snack, for breakfast and for a light dinner….
Cafe Partisan Amsterdam | Neighbourhood bar, restaurant and wine café
I had a lovely dinner today at Cafe Partisan with some friends/colleagues (frolleagues?). It has become somewhat of a tradition of ours, to discover a new restaurant once every quarter. We usually stick to The Hague, close to work, but as some of us live in Amsterdam, we opted for Amsterdam this quarter. My frolleague…
Ottolenghi’s Lentil Tomato Soup
A few weeks back Stijn surprised me with a lovely present: Yotam Ottoleghi’s new cookbook Simple. Ottolenghi’s previous cookbooks Plenty and Nopi are wonderful, though the recipes are often very complex, requiring lots of out of the ordinary ingredients and multiple stages of preparation. So not very suitable for the weekdays. His new cookbook, Simple…
Momiji Ramen, The Hague, NL
Momiji Ramen is a little gem in the heart of The Hague. We first tasted Ramen during our holidays in Japan in 2016 and fell in love with it! It is the ultimate comfort food: a savoury broth (often creamy silky pork broth, but you have other varieties as well), noodles and traditionally topped with…
Hanos
Welcome to foodie heaven… this is what Hanos means to me. You can find just about ANYTHING in this store. The staff at Hanos are extremely friendly and knowledgeable. The last time Stijn and I went to visit Hanos, we were talking about an ingredient we could not find and one of the staff overheard, chipped…
Miso Salmon with Ginger & Sesame Bok Choy
This is a very healthy and easy recipe for the weekdays. It is said that Dutch folks don’t eat enough fish (or vegetables). This recipe ticks both boxes. And if you eat fish, they recommend you to eat a fatty fish once a week. As salmon is a fatty fish, it ticks the box again…so…
Amazing Oriental
The frustrating thing about many recipes is that they include very exotic ingredients and you have no idea where to buy them. So even before figuring out the recipe, you need to do your research in terms of where to find your products. I personally love Asian cuisine, and over the years I have found…
The Food Explorer 