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…

Fragrant Malaysian Laksa (soup)

Winter is coming…. It is getting cold in The Netherlands. Next week we even have predictions of snow. More and more people are getting colds or the flu and I started having a sore throat as well. So I was looking for a recipe which is soothing, warming, and somehow (at least in my mind)…medicinal….