Sweet honey and pistachio cake

by Simone (junglefrog) on May 16, 2012 · 4 comments

in Desserts & other sweets, Recipes

Don’t you just sometimes feel you’re at the mercy of some stranger when it comes to hosting of your blog? Not too long ago I moved from my Dutch hosting guys to Hostgator and while I have to say everything went smoothly up until this morning, I now felt why it makes sense to have a host a little closer to home. This morning I had a spike in CPU usage on my blog. It could be a hack attempt or whatever else can happen these days being online, but I was immediately locked out of all my accounts to prevent the server crashing. And I get that. Believe me, I understand why they decide to close down your site at that particular point.

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Salmon terrine – a real Masterchef pressure test!

by Simone (junglefrog) on May 15, 2012 · 15 comments

in Appetizer, Black Box, Challenges, Fish, Food and Drink, Recipes

Salmon terrine with anchovies butter

We have funny friends, did you know that? Friends who come up with these crazy ideas…. And it seems that our new kitchen is sort of bringing it out in all of them. It could have something to do with the fact that everyone all of a sudden wants us to cook dinner, and hey, it’s even more fun if there is a challenge attached to it. So P. and M., friends we have known for a little over 20 years had decided that Tom and I should do a pressure test.

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Shaved fennel salad – Bookreview Supernatural Every Day

by Simone (junglefrog) on May 12, 2012 · 16 comments

in Book review, Food and Drink, Healthy, Recipes, Salads

Shaved fennel salad

Even though the weather is certainly not salad-weather at the moment, I figured that maybe, if I eat enough salads, the sun will magically appear? Will that work you think? Sort of reversed psychology for the weather.. ;) As I am typing this it is actually pouring down with rain again so sofar it hasn’t helped, but I can always try, right? As I know is the case with a lot of people that do not live in Weimar (where the sun apparently always shines..:)

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Strawberry soup with icecream – Cooking club

May 8, 2012

It’s chaos everywhere; one person is running around with smoked eel trying to remove all the bones, the other is rummaging through the racks beneath the kitchen counter searching for an empty pot, someone else is peering over my shoulder to see if I maybe have the gelatin powder, while on the other side of [...]

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Steamed quinoa dessert with rhubarb and an accident

May 2, 2012

I drive a lot. Part of my job is going from one location to the next either in Europe or in Holland. Well mostly in Holland really, but once or twice every so many years I also have to drive to Germany, France or similar places. I love driving, I’m comfortable on the road and [...]

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Matcha yogurt with rhubarb-blackberry puree

April 26, 2012

Remember I told you I had another funny story with Paris as, well let’s say as part of the story? Well here is comes, the story of a love gone sour… (nothing serious here, it’s a typical case of how a lot of holiday loves end I guess) The love story starts in England, in [...]

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Cacahuate beans with chorizo, oyster mushrooms and nopales – Guestpost by What’s Cooking

April 24, 2012

As I’ve already told you when I did a guestpost for Ben from What’s Cooking Mexico? a few weeks ago in his series What’s Cooking World? I am a big big fan of his blog which is all about Mexican cuisine. Ben and I started blogging at about the same time way back in 2007 [...]

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Cheese and veggie sandwich and tulip season

April 23, 2012
Tulips and a sandwich

Even though the sight of fields with rows and rows of tulips is nothing weird here I still love the sight of them. Since a few years the area around Almere is used to produce tulip bulbs, which means that the fields get to full bloom and are only removed once all the tulips are [...]

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Lemongrass beef skewers – book review Vietnamese street food

April 21, 2012

The book I have been reading for the past couple of weeks is all about Vietnamese Street Food. What I love about the book is the fact that it has all those wonderful stories of streetvendors who build a name for themselves in this rather competitive ‘street food’ business. If you’ve never been to Vietnam [...]

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Rhubarb souffle for April in Paris

April 19, 2012
Monthly mingle; April in Paris

Alors, j’taime Paris… My love affair with France dates back from when I was a little kid. My parents always went to France on holidays. When we were big enough to ‘survive’ the long trip from our home to Bretagne, we went there every year. I must have been 13 or 14 when I entered [...]

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New toy(s) to play with and a lovely visit..

April 18, 2012

Every once in a while you have to give yourself something new and exciting to play with and in fact I got two new toys today. But then you know I have no self control to speak of so that must be the reason… I was meeting Julia and Dan for lunch today in Amsterdam. [...]

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