I’m an avid reader of Meeta’s gorgeous and beautiful blog ‘What’s for lunch, honey‘ and so I couldn’t help but find the announcement for the Monthly Mingle on her blog a while ago. I immediately loved the theme which was High tea treats. While High Tea is really a typically English tradition there are a [...]
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 [...]
Failed attempt nr. 1
Ever since I tasted the very first macaron in my life at Laduree in Paris, I’m hooked… I love the texture of these phenomenal cookies and the taste is just well…. to die for!
Last year I was in France with a friend and we found this little bakery in Dijon where [...]
Cherry clafoutis
This morning I dropped of Tom and his brother at the airport. They are going on a fishing trip in Norway… The last two years they went to France to do some carp fishing and well, hmmm, how shall I put this; they didn’t really catch much. So I hope that this will [...]
Strawberry mango strudel with whipped cream
I think one the best thing about being part of the Daring Bakers is that you are “forced” to make things, you wouldn’t otherwise attempt. My first challenge last month was the cheesecake, which I had never done before and the second challenge for me was Apple strudel. Ofcourse [...]
Preparing salad and Dorade
Well… ahum… where to start? We were all prepared for our cooking adventure last evening and had our professional looking apron on and the oven was burning to put the fish in later. Ofcourse we had to clean the fish first and while I was preparing the panzanella salad (that is [...]
Cheesecake
The April 2009 challenge is hosted by Jenny from Jenny Bakes. She has chosen Abbey’s Infamous Cheesecake as the challenge.
A while ago I was first pointed to the Daring Bakers by seeing some of the amazing results of their march and february challenges and I didn’t hesitate one minute and signed up. One of [...]
Fresh bread
Inspired by a post that Ben made on his blog “What’s Cooking” about homemade bread I realized I had never really made my own bread. I had done it only once with one of those packages you can buy in the supermarket. The only thing you need to add is water and the [...]
Chocolate nougatine with hazelnuts
Hmmm…. you know that moment when the visual image of something turns out to be less then the actual food itself?
Let me explain; I had been wanting to make the recipe for chocolate nougatine with hazelnut praline from Jo over at Foodjunkie for a while now, but I couldn’t find enough [...]
Fresh fish
Today was lesson 3 of our cooking class and the topic was fish. I think I said it would be meat, but I was mistaken, which was very apparent by the looks of crates full of various fish species when we walked in this morning. We learned so much today that it is [...]
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