Food and Drink

We have funny friends, did you know that? Friends who come up with these crazy ideas…. And it seems that our new kitchen is sort of bringing it out in all of them. It could have something to do with the fact that everyone all of a sudden wants us to cook dinner, and hey, [...]

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Even though the weather is certainly not salad-weather at the moment, I figured that maybe, if I eat enough salads, the sun will magically appear? Will that work you think? Sort of reversed psychology for the weather.. As I am typing this it is actually pouring down with rain again so sofar it hasn’t helped, [...]

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It’s chaos everywhere; one person is running around with smoked eel trying to remove all the bones, the other is rummaging through the racks beneath the kitchen counter searching for an empty pot, someone else is peering over my shoulder to see if I maybe have the gelatin powder, while on the other side of [...]

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I drive a lot. Part of my job is going from one location to the next either in Europe or in Holland. Well mostly in Holland really, but once or twice every so many years I also have to drive to Germany, France or similar places. I love driving, I’m comfortable on the road and [...]

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Remember I told you I had another funny story with Paris as, well let’s say as part of the story? Well here is comes, the story of a love gone sour… (nothing serious here, it’s a typical case of how a lot of holiday loves end I guess) The love story starts in England, in [...]

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As I’ve already told you when I did a guestpost for Ben from What’s Cooking Mexico? a few weeks ago in his series What’s Cooking World? I am a big big fan of his blog which is all about Mexican cuisine. Ben and I started blogging at about the same time way back in 2007 [...]

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Tulips and a sandwich

Even though the sight of fields with rows and rows of tulips is nothing weird here I still love the sight of them. Since a few years the area around Almere is used to produce tulip bulbs, which means that the fields get to full bloom and are only removed once all the tulips are [...]

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Monthly mingle; April in Paris

Alors, j’taime Paris… My love affair with France dates back from when I was a little kid. My parents always went to France on holidays. When we were big enough to ‘survive’ the long trip from our home to Bretagne, we went there every year. I must have been 13 or 14 when I entered [...]

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Bacon and mushrooms muffins

by Simone (junglefrog) on April 17, 2012 · 17 comments

in Breakfast, Food and Drink, Other, Recipes, sidedish

Savory muffin

I’ve been nosedeep into (a photoshoot for) cocktails all week long so far, so I figured it was time for something savory here. Just to balance things out a bit, hence (is that even a word people use anymore??) you find here these pretty muffins. I have made some sweet muffins before, although not that [...]

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I suspect with a title like this one there might be a bit more spam then the usual amount..lol.. But I couldn’t resist the literal translation for this typical Dutch dish. When I was asked by Ben from What’s Cooking if I wanted to do a guestpost in his worldseries I was flattered. I love [...]

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First of all my apologies for not sending the results of challenge nr. 7 through earlier but due to busy schedules it came a little later then promised! But it’s here now! The voting of the jury was not entirely unanimous but the majority of us thought this image of Liren from Kitchen Confidante hit [...]

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