Lucheon dish

An old family recipe

I have good memories of this salad. My grandmother (on the right, with me on her lap) prepared it during…

4 years ago

Vol-au-vent with fish

A pescetarian alternative for ragoût with meat Recently I have published the recipe for vol-au-vent with ragoût of chicken meat.…

6 years ago

Surprise Eggs

Straight to the recipe A Dutch recipe from the eighteenth century This decorative dish consists of whole, emptied eggs shells…

6 years ago

Traditional Dutch herring salad

The Dutch are famous for eating 'Dutch new' or 'matjes' herring, which is essentially still raw. Tourists stare with fascinated…

6 years ago

Cheese pie with pears

Straight to the recipe The recipe for this pie with Brie cheese, pear and egg dates from the middle of…

7 years ago

Fish with ‘sauce ramolade’

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

7 years ago

Salade Russe the Russian Way

Straight to the recipe A recipe from 1866 The choice for this recipe is the result of a lecture I…

9 years ago

Nourishing square omelette

Straight to the recipe Medieval stuffed omelette with marrow Some years ago I prepared a menu in the Culinair-historisch Kookmuseum ('culinary cookery…

11 years ago

Medieval Easter Eggs

Straight to the recipe Playing with colours During Lent, which starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday before…

12 years ago

Stuffed eggs with mint

Straight to the recipe A medieval first course from Germany I am lucky with my neighbours. At the moment, I…

13 years ago