almonds

I have visions of salads… lovely green salads with maybe just a tiny bit of nuts and a little bit of salty blue cheese and a gorgeous dressing. Salads that make me feel light and most of all healthy. Salads that give me the feeling that I am on the right track, that I am [...]

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mascarpone trifle

Noooo!!! I can hear you exclaim out loud in utter confusion… Did I not say yesterday that I was gonna be good and losing weight and blablabla?? True, so true… but you see.. this was already made when I wrote that. And I am not gonna eat it all myself! What’re you thinking? Ofcourse I [...]

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Bull’s blood salad with halloumi

by Simone (junglefrog) on October 7, 2011 · 18 comments

in Food and Drink, Healthy, Recipes, Salads, Vegetarian

As I have told you before I have a hard time resisting ingredients which I have not seen before and when they have an imaginative name like ‘Bull’s Blood’… well, there is only one course of action possible as far as I’m concerned and that is to put it in my basket! I was really [...]

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Blue chocolate cake

by Simone (junglefrog) on September 18, 2011 · 74 comments

in Desserts & other sweets, Food and Drink, Recipes

Chocolate cake with blueberries and blackberries

Technically this is of course not a blue chocolate cake but this was our blue version of the ‘Chocolate Jewels” photoshoot where you previously saw that amazing Strawberry chocolate cake. I am just very glad that Alex does not bake me cakes like this every week or I would be in a lot more trouble [...]

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Delicious nectarine frangipane flan

Masterchef Australia by itself is responsible for me producing a whole lot of recipes that I watched on the show. This delicious nectarine frangipane flan is one of those. Original recipe is from Maggie Beer. While Tom and I watch episode after episode of season 1 of masterchef Australia, dish after dish is whipped up [...]

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When you think about it; how many brownies did you eat in your life that were really really good and how many did you eat that were just less then perfect? If I think back on the countless brownies I’ve eaten (no wonder I have the hips I have!! ) there are only a few [...]

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It was time… It had been too long ago that Charlotte and myself (and Winfried) cooked up something fun together.. Well actually that is not even entirely true as Charlotte is also part of our cooking club so it’s not really that long, but cooking with more then two/three in this case does not count.. [...]

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Plum & almond crumble slice

by Simone (junglefrog) on September 20, 2010 · 22 comments

in Desserts & other sweets, Food and Drink, Recipes

Finally…a day for doing “nothing” which for me tends to translate in being able to bake and cook. I still had some plums that I urgently needed to use before they would go bad, so I searched the internet for a recipe using plums. Obviously this particular recipe can be used with whatever fruit you [...]

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Daring Cooks; nut butters

by Simone (junglefrog) on July 14, 2010 · 35 comments

in Challenges, Daring Cooks, Food and Drink, Other, Recipes

I am nuts about nuts… Love them all, although I have a slight allergy for them. Ever heard of the most common allergy which is apple, raisins and walnuts? Well, I have it.. Really nothing serious; but whenever I eat a raw apple or walnut (once used in something I’m fine) my throat, ears and [...]

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