April 2009

DDD (Dorad Disaster Day…:) )

by Simone (junglefrog) on April 30, 2009 · 10 comments

in Food and Drink

Preparing salad and Dorade

Well… ahum… where to start? We were all prepared for our cooking adventure last evening and had our professional looking apron on and the oven was burning to put the fish in later. Ofcourse we had to clean the fish first and while I was preparing the panzanella salad (that is what the bread above [...]

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Fresh (?) fish

by Simone (junglefrog) on April 29, 2009 · 4 comments

in Food and Drink

Dorad rose

Well, that is what it will be once we are finished with this pretty fish…:) We haven’t really had a lot of time to practice the things we learned at the kookstudio, but since we’re both off for queensday and I had to go to the Hanos anyway, we figured now is a good time [...]

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Bella Italia…

by Simone (junglefrog) on April 28, 2009 · 9 comments

in travel

Italian snapshots 1

What is it that makes a country irresistable? Is it the food, is it the weather or is it the people in it? Or maybe simply a combination of all? I had only been to Italy once before so had very little to go on and to be quite honest; this trip was not meant [...]

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Cheesecake

The April 2009 challenge is hosted by Jenny from Jenny Bakes. She has chosen Abbey’s Infamous Cheesecake as the challenge. A while ago I was first pointed to the Daring Bakers by seeing some of the amazing results of their march and february challenges and I didn’t hesitate one minute and signed up. One of [...]

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More house searching in Italy…

by simone mobiel on April 23, 2009 · 2 comments

in travel

Our typical Italian breakfast; cappucino with brioche

Sorry about posting an upside down photo on the post yesterday, but I’m posting via email so I couldn’t really change it. The day started really good with lots of sunshine this morning so we were hoping for another beautiful day but unfortunately the weather changed during the day and now it’s raining a bit… [...]

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Italian bliss

by simone mobiel on April 22, 2009 · 7 comments

in travel

At a restaurant in Peschiera

Well maybe the title of this blog is not really appropriate considering the fact that we are now sitting on our balcony in an incredible noisy hotel. It’s a huge hotel and I think they are filling it in the off season with noisy schoolkids! Lucky us. Yesterday was bad but I think today is [...]

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Off to Italy!!

by Simone (junglefrog) on April 20, 2009 · 10 comments

in travel

Mantova by night

For some reason I have only ever been to Italy one day… Yes ladies and gentleman one lousy and waaay too short day! We’ve been planning to go to Italy for years really as we both love Italy and the Italian food, but for some reason the destinations of our holidays always changed to be [...]

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Restaurant Picasso – Den Bosch

by Simone (junglefrog) on April 19, 2009 · 5 comments

in Reviews, travel

Restaurant Picasso - Den Bosch

This weekend we went to Den Bosch with friends, just to spend a fun weekend in a pretty city… We were very lucky that the weather was in our favor and it has been sunny the entire weekend, which was fabulous. I think I even got a bit of a suntan! Ofcourse we had to [...]

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Foodstyling attempt no. 1

by Simone (junglefrog) on April 17, 2009 · 12 comments

in Foodstyling, Photography

Foodstyling attempt 1

I’ll admit straight away that I am not the best foodstylist in the world and I don’t intend to make a second career out of foodstyling either, but being able to style your own food, for your own photos makes absolute sense. If I look at the photos of Helen at Tartelette or Sabra at [...]

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Splashing about

by Simone (junglefrog) on April 16, 2009 · 12 comments

in Photography

Strawberry splash

Man… that was hard!!! Ian from Coco Bean and me had been shooting some strawberries for his picture tuesday with one of them splashing into milk. I thought that was really cool and actually something that was on my list of things to try out, but… that was really difficult to achieve the desired result! [...]

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Ricotta and white bean salad

I’ve been meaning to try out a few things by replicating an original photo. I’ve done this for the first time last year and was planning to do it every month, but work kind of got in the way of things. I then bumped into the SLW remake group on Flickr and thought I continue [...]

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