March 2010

I am not sure how it is in your part of the world but at the moment here it is terrible weather. It seems that the short burst of spring kind of disappeared for a while. Too bad as I was so looking forward to have a long weekend during Easter with lots of sunshine [...]

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Springtime!!

by Simone (junglefrog) on March 25, 2010 · 31 comments

in Current Affairs, Food and Drink, Recipes, Salads

How happy can a person be simply because the sun is shining and the temperatures are rising slowly but steadily to a lovely temperature? In fact; it was quite warm today and in the garden there was hardly any wind, so it was almost too warm to sit. Well… not really but I did say [...]

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Cooking class lesson 3 Fish

by Simone (junglefrog) on March 21, 2010 · 12 comments

in Food and Drink, Kookstudio Amsterdam

Remember when we had one of the first Daring Cooks challenges and one of the things we had to do was to clean a squid?? Remember how incredibly wrong mine went?? (if not, you can read about it here…   But don’t say I didn’t warn you!) Ever since that first very frightful (haha, well… [...]

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Last saturday it was the second lesson of the cooking course at Kookstudio Amsterdam and the lesson was this time chicken and other fowl. I should have waited with making the stock for the Daring Cooks challenge as I would have had plenty of bones!! But as we all know the date for the Daring [...]

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Aha! That was sort of my reaction when I read about the Daring Cooks challenge for this month. The challenge consisted of two parts; first making your own chicken stock from scratch and two, making your own risotto with that stock. Now to be honest; making risotto is not really a challenge as I have [...]

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It’s been forever since I last cooked something for the Cooking Italy group which is all about the wonderful book “The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking” by Marcella Hazan. You know how things like that go; in between cooking for the Daring Cooks, the Daring Bakers and various other cooking groups and challenges… it almost [...]

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Cooking course is back!!

by Simone (junglefrog) on March 9, 2010 · 9 comments

in Food and Drink, Kookstudio Amsterdam

Remember when we did the cooking course in Amsterdam at the Kookstudio in March of last year? That was the so called beginners course and we followed the advance course after that but when it was finished we kind of felt we wanted to do some more. The problem is that you can find loads [...]

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Today I had a revelation; I have loved poffertjes all my life but as of today it is official; the Dutch have been defeated in the making of these treats by the Danish… It’s sad but true. Well, ok in the defense of the Dutch nation; it is not really the same recipe and there [...]

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Creamy pasta; then and now…

by Simone (junglefrog) on March 2, 2010 · 28 comments

in Food and Drink, Italian, Recipes

It’s been almost one and a half year ago that I last made this dish… Where did time go?? I cannot believe it is that long but here we are in 2010 and I made this before in 2008… The recipe comes originally from the book “Rond de wereld in 80 recepten” (around the world [...]

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