Straight to the recipe Tompouce is the Dutch version of mille-feuille. It is popular throughout the year, but on some…
I have good memories of this salad. My grandmother (on the right, with me on her lap) prepared it during…
In October 2018 I gave a guest-talk for an international group of ex-pats in The Hague on spiced wines through…
On Coquinaria are several historical recipes for puff pastry. On this page is a modern version. While I was searching…
"Keep it simple: start with an I" The banketletter is one of the few traditional Dutch Christmas bakes, as most…
The Dutch are famous for eating 'Dutch new' or 'matjes' herring, which is essentially still raw. Tourists stare with fascinated…
With oxtail meat and stock and dried ceps For the family Christmas dinner in 2014 I had prepared an old-fashioned clear…
Rich and sweet Almond paste has been around since medieval times. Hardly anyone makes it at home nowadays. It is…
Although actually it's English! The Dutch consider Bishop wine as a typically Dutch mulled wine for Sint Nicholas Eve. But…
Haute cuisine for the Middle Class In my youth we used to eat oxtail soup as the first course of…