Straight to the recipe Mrs Beeton's calorie bomb Our Christmas dinner from 2011 was themed Austen and Dickens. The recipe…
A delicious treat This 'pepper cake' is very popular in the Netherlands, and is known under several other names, like ontbijtkoek (breakfast cake)…
Great with mashed potatoes and red cabbage Hachee (pronunciation ɦɑʃeː or hashay) is a traditional Dutch winter dish with beef. It has an almost medieval flavour, because…
A Dutch orginal dessert Vla ( ), a kind of custard, is the favourite dessert for most Dutch people. It…
Cream of Chicken Soup the Dutch way Three years ago I published the historical version of this soup on Coquinaria,…
An old-fashioned first course This used to be a traditional first course in many Dutch Christmas meals. The most common…
Warming, loving, substantial food While I am writing this (2 December 2010) it's freezing cold outside, the canal in front…
Russian Salad the Dutch way I suppose Russian Salad is a popular dish all over the world, but I wonder…
Recipes for Japanese stock Dashi is the basic stock of Japanese cuisine. It can be prepared in several manners, but…
The picture shows my daughter and some of her friends at her birthday party many years ago (in 2002). As…