Fish with ‘sauce ramolade’

9 years ago

Straight to the recipe A light dish from the court of Louis XIV   Sometimes food from the past seems…

Stuffed oranges

10 years ago

Straight to the recipe A feast for the eye This recipe is from the great Antonin Carême, the Frenchman who…

Soup with Sauerkraut? Delicious!

10 years ago

Straight to the recipe A Russian recipe from 1861 During my preparations for a presentation in October 2014 in the Hermitage…

Roman chestnuts

10 years ago

Straight to the recipe High in carbohydrates, low-fat, gluten free Edible chestnuts were probably introduced in the Netherlands by the Romans. Dutch summers…

Eggs with gooseberries

11 years ago

Straight to the recipe An odd but tasty dish Recently I published an article in the periodical De Boekenwereld (The Book World)…

Tamarind ice-cream

11 years ago

Straight to the recipe An exotic flavour from the nineteenth century   Last year I had the good fortune to…

Roman health food

11 years ago

A nourishing recipe from the first century AD Straight to the recipe Hadrian's Wall is the iconic heritage monument of…

‘Gilt poverty’

11 years ago

Straight to the recipe A very simple recipe from 'the first Dutch television cook' The information on this page concerns…

Barley soup for a ball

11 years ago

Straight to the recipe Double take The Netherlands celebrated the bicentennial of their existence as a kingdom in 2013. But at the…

Dutch barley soup

11 years ago

Straight to the recipe This barley soup is not French haute cuisine as Carême's recipe is. It is Dutch and was published in Aaltje, de…