Remember when we had one of the first Daring Cooks challenges and one of the things we had to do was to clean a squid?? Remember how incredibly wrong mine went?? (if not, you can read about it here… But don’t say I didn’t warn you!) Ever since that first very frightful (haha, well… [...]
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Last saturday it was the second lesson of the cooking course at Kookstudio Amsterdam and the lesson was this time chicken and other fowl. I should have waited with making the stock for the Daring Cooks challenge as I would have had plenty of bones!! But as we all know the date for the Daring [...]
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Remember when we did the cooking course in Amsterdam at the Kookstudio in March of last year? That was the so called beginners course and we followed the advance course after that but when it was finished we kind of felt we wanted to do some more. The problem is that you can find loads [...]
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Let me first start by saying that this post is not for the faint of heart as some of the photos are quite bloody. If you are a vegan or vegetarian probably best not to read on! If you are – however- interested in finding out how to skin a hare then please read on.. [...]
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I have been told many times that a good sauce is very very important in the kitchen. It brings the dish together and adds an extra dimension to it. So our lesson of yesterday was sauce… The base of most good sauces is a good broth, which you – ofcourse – make yourself from whatever [...]
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Last night we had a lesson in patisserie from Carle Douglas from Douglas Delights. We had a patisserie lesson before from Rob in the first course, but there is a big difference… Rob is passionate about cooking and everything else except patisserie I would say, while Carle is a master in making desserts and beautiful [...]
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I was a littttllle bit anxious about this lesson as, let’s face it, shells, shellfish and the like are not really (really not) my favorite kind of food. Maybe it stems from the time that I still didn’t like fish, having not grown up with the stuff and while I love fish now, that took [...]
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Remember when we started our cooking course in the Kookstudio in Amsterdam, back in March? After waiting for what feels like forever, yesterday we finally started on the follow up course! Whoohoo!! It’s going to be 5 lessons of which the first one was making your own pate and sausages. Something I had never before [...]
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I am sure we all have that one “issue” at some point in our lives… There is so much to do and just so little time!! I’ve been really busy the last couple of weeks with assignments. It’s wedding season after all, so that means a lot of work for me as well. In addition [...]
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Unfortunately today was already the very last day of our cooking course… It’s been so much fun that I don’t think anyone of us was really happy to get to the end, but all good things do – apparently – have to have an ending…. Now the intent of today was to make a three [...]
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It’s ofcourse a little less impressive in terms of the ingredients that we used for the patisserie lesson. A pile of fish or meat looks quite different then a lot of stuff in various bags and boxes…:) Since the ingredients for any cake or dessert need to be followed much more closely then for instance [...]
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