workshop

You know me right? I like to follow all sort of workshops, cooking courses or anything really as long as it is vaguely and somewhere remotely related to food. If you’ve followed my blog for a while you might even have seen the bloodiest post I’ve ever written on dissecting a rabbit at the Kookstudio [...]

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Bread baking course part II

by Simone (junglefrog) on August 23, 2011 · 21 comments

in Current Affairs, Food and Drink

Beautifully baked sourdough bread

Isn’t it funny how my blog seems to have transformed into a bread baking blog in the last couple of days? For those of you that do not like bread, I can assure you that all will go back to normal quite soon. But today was our second part of the breadbaking course we had [...]

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Breakbaking course part I

by Simone (junglefrog) on August 20, 2011 · 26 comments

in Bread, Food and Drink, Recipes

Our dough rising in their baskets

Bread… that most elusive of materials… I have to confess that I’m sort of a breadbaking virgin. True; I have baked bread before as you can see here but up till now it has been mostly with premade flourmixtures or has been a complete failure as you can see here…I have made quite a few [...]

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Delightful patisserie lesson 1

by Simone (junglefrog) on September 18, 2010 · 19 comments

in Desserts & other sweets, Food and Drink, Recipes

We first met Carle during one of our courses at the Kookstudio Amsterdam, where we were very impressed with the way he teaches. His knowledge of baking, dessert and pastry is enormous and he is very good in transferring that knowledge to other people, so when we found out that he is giving patisserie courses [...]

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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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Don’t we all love icecream?

by Simone (junglefrog) on October 13, 2009 · 15 comments

in Current Affairs, Photography

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Now that I finally have my kitchen aid, I am convinced that the next appliance will either be the pasta maker or the icecream maker.. Summer is past now, so does it make sense to go for the icecream maker first? Probably not, but yesterday I got serious icecream making urges… I was giving a [...]

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Our product for the day!

The fourth lesson of our cooking class was – I am sure – the day that some of the guys (I know at least that is true for my guy…:)) had been waiting for; the famous meat-lesson. As usual when we came in in the morning there was already a stack of various meats lying [...]

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Cooking class 1

by Simone (junglefrog) on March 8, 2009 · 7 comments

in Current Affairs, Food and Drink, Kookstudio Amsterdam

Kookstudio Amsterdam

Yesterday was the first day of the cooking class that Tom and I had been looking forward to for months and it realy exceeded our expectations!! It’s a 6 week course; every saturday for the next 6 weeks we will be spending the afternoon in the kitchen you see above which is located in Amsterdam. [...]

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How to: Shoot a cake

by Simone (junglefrog) on March 1, 2009 · 6 comments

in Howto's

Small cupcakes with raspberries

I am not sure when the whole photographing a cake-thing started, but I believe it was after I had done a course in decorating cakes at Oldenhof in Hilversum. I got so enthusiastic that I started searching the internet for more information on decorating cakes and ended up at the forum De leukste taarten where [...]

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Marzipan roses…

by Simone (junglefrog) on November 10, 2008 · 0 comments

in Food and Drink, Photography

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A while ago I was asked to go to a basic-workshop to learn about decorating cakes. I have done that on a couple of occassions and I do like it once in a while although I also have to confess that I am not the kind of girl who spends hours and hours to perfect [...]

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How to shoot a cake…:)

by Simone (junglefrog) on August 10, 2008 · 0 comments

in Photography

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I am not sure how it all started, but about a year ago I went to this workshop for decorating cakes and I loved it. So naturally – being me – I go home with loads of appliances and stuff to make cakes and – more importantly – to decorate cakes. I must have spend [...]

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