September 2009

Crespelles; Cooking Italy

by Simone (junglefrog) on September 28, 2009 · 23 comments

in Challenges, Cooking Italy, Italian, Recipes

Crespelles filled with prosciutto, tomato and parmezan

When reading this recipe I knew it was going to be a tricky one as it includes quite some mozarella as well as Parmezan. Having a guy who does not like cheese (….), I had the feeling it would possibly be too cheesy… And I was right.. He was not amused..lol Ok, it happens maybe [...]

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Vol-au-vents: Daring Bakers september 09

by Simone (junglefrog) on September 27, 2009 · 43 comments

in Challenges, Daring Bakers, Food and Drink

With tuna

When coming back from holiday one of the first things I did was to check out the new assignment for the daring bakers. I would ofcourse have less time then the usual month, so figured I should make sure that I could do it in the time left. So when I read that we were [...]

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I don’t think I am making any of this in the right order but I’m having some trouble getting the right ingredients for the things I should be making. Angela was kind enough to give us a bonus recipe which we can use to substitute if necessary for another recipe. My plan was to make [...]

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I had a serious amount of puff pastry left over from something I will tell you about in a few days… and I wanted to use it. I am not going in putting stuff in the freezer. I usually end up forgetting completely I ever made anything that went into the freezer. You see our [...]

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Lemon-mascarpone macarons

by Simone (junglefrog) on September 24, 2009 · 28 comments

in Desserts & other sweets, Recipes

Lemon mascarpone macarons

It’s been a while since I made my first macarons and since this evening we are going to visit my parents in law I figured it would be a perfect day to make a new batch of these delicate cookies. I think officially I am not supposed to call them cookies, but for lack of [...]

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As I mentioned yesterday already I joined the Cooking Italy group that Angela from Spinach Tiger started. It’s great fun and each month she picks four recipes that we cook out of the book ‘The essentials of Italian Classic Cooking” from Marcella Hazan. I’ve been reading in the book and have already learned quite a [...]

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Chocolate fudge cake

by Simone (junglefrog) on September 19, 2009 · 26 comments

in Desserts & other sweets, Food and Drink, Recipes

Chocolate fudge cakes

After spending way to much time away from the stove I figured it was time for some proper baking and what better recipes to try then Donna Hay’s? I love her recipes and have already quite a stack of favorites that I turn to time after time (the chocolate mousse recipe is just too good!! [...]

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Quick bite

by Simone (junglefrog) on September 18, 2009 · 9 comments

in Food and Drink

Mozarella, pesto and prosciutto sandwich

It’s funny how autumn seems to have sneaked up on us without us being here. When we left the country only four weeks ago it was still middle of summer. Bright and hard light, but now that we’ve come back the light is all of a sudden so much softer and has that autumn quality [...]

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Courgette-feta ‘cookies’

by Simone (junglefrog) on September 17, 2009 · 18 comments

in Food and Drink, Recipes

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You know how you can sometimes see a photo of a certain dish in a magazine and you think ‘yes! That is going to be de-li-cious!!’ and then you go out and make it and are… well, hmmm, slightly disappointed. That happened to me today for my lunchdish of courgette feta cookies. I think I [...]

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I’m back!!

by Simone (junglefrog) on September 14, 2009 · 18 comments

in Current Affairs, travel

Bali food

I can’t believe the past few weeks have flown by so quickly. We just arrived back this morning after a 16 hour flight. (Well, it was one flight of 2.45 hours and one flight of 13 hours with an hour in between to be exact). And how pathetic am I to be behind the computer [...]

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Feeling hot, hot, hot

by simone mobiel on September 7, 2009 · 7 comments

in travel

BBQ on the beach

Wow… How hot can it get? We are now in Riung a little village situated by the sea (but without a beach) and it is incredibly hot here. So hot in fact that I am longing for cold rainy days in Holland!! Imagine that! Since arriving here we’ve been to beautiful mountainareas where the temperatures [...]

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