I’ll let you in on a little secret; up till not so very long ago I always thought that carrot cake wasn’t real. That it didn’t really exist other then in a stupid joke that I heard when I was a kid. The joke was about a bunny going to a bakery asking for a [...]
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The very first time I had good Indian must have been in the UK. I was visiting friends at the time and we went to an Indian restaurant which just blew me away. I can’t even remember what we had, as we also shared most of the dishes but all of it was absolutely awesome [...]
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Sometimes, just every so often, you try out a recipe and it is just plain wrong… I had never before have that happen with a Donna Hay recipe, so I guess kudos to their team for testing most of their recipes. And I say ‘most’ because the recipe I picked for this months Donna Hay [...]
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Decisions can sometimes be the hardest things to make. Do we hold on to things because it makes sense or because we are used to ‘having’ it? It’s the time of month to do my tax returns and that got me thinking about the cost involved in keeping my studio versus the return it gives [...]
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I was with Meeta at the market in Germany when I spotted some quince. I had seen them somewhere before (on the internet!) but they are not a fruit you can easily find here in Holland, so I took them with me from Weimar to Holland. They keep forever anyway, so there was not a [...]
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Let me start by confessing that this pear has not been shot in the proper season for poached pears… I shot it in the middle of summer as an experiment in lighting techniques.. I was very disappointed by the looks of my pear once poached and I will be doing this again with a dark [...]
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Let me first start with a disclaimer here; I am gonna give you a recipe for garam masala, but I am convinced that there are 100′s, 1000′s of recipes out there that are possibly more authentic, better or whatever then mine. I don’t know much about the Indian kitchen other then what I have tasted [...]
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I was first pointed to the book from Anjum Anand by Soma from the fabulous blog ECurry. If you haven’t checked out her blog you should. It has loads of Indian recipes and beautiful photos too. Anyway Soma gave a review of the new book by Anjum and I just had to get that book [...]
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Yeah!! I did it! I finshed a Daring Baker challenge ahead of time!It’s been far too long since I last finished a Daring Baker challenge and when I found out that my dear friend from Life’s a Feast, Jamie was co-hosting this event together with Ria from Ria’s Collection, I just knew I had to [...]
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Before I started blogging I had never heard of clafoutis, let alone tasted one. But I kept seeing gorgeous examples of this incredibly versatile and yet so easy dish around the internet quite often until I decided it was time to try it for myself. The first clafoutis I mad was of the traditional kind. [...]
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