March 2009

Stuck in the hotel

by simone mobiel on March 30, 2009 · 7 comments

in Current Affairs, travel

So…. Guess what? I have a two day photoshoot today and tomorrow in Amsterdam and ofcourse that is the day they picked to hold a conference on Afghanistan in Den Haag. Now they’re not closing of the A1 but the A4 will be closed off tomorrow morning to transport important people, which means a potential [...]

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Our product for the day!

The fourth lesson of our cooking class was – I am sure – the day that some of the guys (I know at least that is true for my guy…:)) had been waiting for; the famous meat-lesson. As usual when we came in in the morning there was already a stack of various meats lying [...]

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Gotta love the job!!

by Simone (junglefrog) on March 27, 2009 · 10 comments

in Current Affairs, Photography

Krab aan de Haven

I had this really cool assignment today. Pretty big one too as I have much more work to do then what I have done today and I totally love it!! It’s for the city council, as they are going to promote one of the areas of the town I live in. The idea is to [...]

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Garlic spaghetti

by Simone (junglefrog) on March 24, 2009 · 17 comments

in Italian, Recipes

Garlic spaghetti with bacon strips and basil

We are having a ridiculously busy week this week and that also means that we will not be eating together at all… Yesterday evening I had a preweddingshoot with a weddingcouple, tonight Tom has a party for the announcement of the best company of the year, tomorrow he has to do something for the foundation [...]

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Hungarian farmers bread

by Simone (junglefrog) on March 24, 2009 · 18 comments

in Food and Drink, Recipes, Sandwiches

Fresh bread

Inspired by a post that Ben made on his blog “What’s Cooking” about homemade bread I realized I had never really made my own bread. I had done it only once with one of those packages you can buy in the supermarket. The only thing you need to add is water and the rest is [...]

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Chocolate nougatine with hazelnuts

Hmmm…. you know that moment when the visual image of something turns out to be less then the actual food itself? Let me explain; I had been wanting to make the recipe for chocolate nougatine with hazelnut praline from Jo over at Foodjunkie for a while now, but I couldn’t find enough hazelnuts. In the [...]

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SLW: Photo remakes challenge 1

by Simone (junglefrog) on March 22, 2009 · 2 comments

in Challenges, Food and Drink, Photography

Photo remake nutella challenge 1

I discovered Lara’s blog about the same time I discovered Flickr as a great way to make friends and learn a lot in the process as well. Lara’s blog is incredibly informative and I’ve been reading it ever since. It has great tips on lighting, techniques etc. Lara had been hosting a group on Flickr [...]

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Fresh fish

Today was lesson 3 of our cooking class and the topic was fish. I think I said it would be meat, but I was mistaken, which was very apparent by the looks of crates full of various fish species when we walked in this morning. We learned so much today that it is hard to [...]

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Sticky lemon and chilli chicken noodles

by Simone (junglefrog) on March 19, 2009 · 23 comments

in Asian, Food and Drink, Recipes

Lemon and chilli chicken noodles

I wasn’t planning on shooting our evening meal but due to a slight form of miscommunication it turned out I had to eat alone as Tom was going to his grandma first. She had a bit of a nasty accident involving grandpa and a car… I won’t go into the details but it’s not pretty [...]

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Apple cinnamon baked oatmeal

by Simone (junglefrog) on March 18, 2009 · 11 comments

in Breakfast, Recipes, Salads

Apple cinnamon baked oatmeal

I was reading a post this week made by Christie from Coco Bean featuring a delicious looking apple cinnamon baked oatmeal recipe. I had some oats leftover from the oatmeal cookies that I baked the week before, so I figured this would make a perfect destination for them! Now the recipe is really fairly simple; [...]

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Chicken mango salad

by Simone (junglefrog) on March 16, 2009 · 14 comments

in Recipes, Salads

Chicken Mango salad

Every year when spring is slowly approaching I suddenly realize that the ‘bikini’ season is about to start sooner rather then later and after having spend most of the winter happily munching on not so lean foods…. you know where this is going right? Today was that moment when it hit me; “You better start [...]

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