
You didn’t think I had vanished from the face of the earth now did you? I’ve just been incredibly swamped with work ever since the new Year started. It’s weird, wonderful and a little troubling too. (knock on wood) It could be over next month, so I am taking everything I can to make up [...]

It’s here… Happy New Year! So let me first start by wishing everyone a fantastic 2012. Wishing you lots and lots of happiness, love and health for you and your families. Great food, friendship and more love. If you have any dreams or desires or plans for 2012, then I hope those will come to [...]

Wishing everyone out there a wonderful Christmas or Hanukkah and hope you get to spend the days with friends or family. Enjoy the food and have some relaxing time! Warm wishes Simone

What is it about lamb that makes it a meat that not a lot of people eat? I’m sure if I would ask any random person they would tell me they have eaten meat in the last year or so, but if the supermarkets are anything to go by then lamb is only on the [...]

As soon as I open our stock pantry I feel like closing the door right back again. There is so much junk in there that it scares me to start organizing. Going through the contents however I do find a large jar of poppy seed… Remember I told you I would probably have to give [...]

Halloween is not something we really celebrate here in the Netherlands. Well we do a little but there will be no kids knocking on our doors dressed up like ghosts or other scary creatures. Which is a shame really as I would love to see that! A few weeks later on November 11th St. Maarten [...]

You know me right? I like to follow all sort of workshops, cooking courses or anything really as long as it is vaguely and somewhere remotely related to food. If you’ve followed my blog for a while you might even have seen the bloodiest post I’ve ever written on dissecting a rabbit at the Kookstudio [...]

Call me weird but everytime I see an ingredient that I don’t know or have never seen before I can’t resist and I just have to buy it. Today I was visiting one of my favorite places to buy meat and vegetables which is the Lindenhoff in Baambrugge. I went there to get a good [...]

When I was invited by Jenn from Jenn Cuisine to take part in the 7 links project I said yes without thinking long and hard about it. I’ve been blogging now for three years (wow, has it really been that long??) and blogging in itself has brought me so many things. New friends and a [...]

When I met Ishay for the very first time during our Plate to Page adventure in Germany it became immediately apparent that she is a very socially engaged person. She is originally from South Africa where she lives with her Dutch husband (who came with her to Germany since they were on a vacation too [...]

Isn’t it funny how my blog seems to have transformed into a bread baking blog in the last couple of days? For those of you that do not like bread, I can assure you that all will go back to normal quite soon. But today was our second part of the breadbaking course we had [...]