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Meat must be cooked perfectly. Not too raw, not to well-done, but as everyone wishes: rare, medium rare, medium or medium well. When you bake meat in the frying pan, it is often difficult to estimate how long the meat…
Continue readingWhen we ate at Bougainville https://explorer4experience.com/bougainville/ in Amsterdam at Christmas 2019, we had a trio of langoustines as a starter. One of the three dishes was a langoustine fried in shrimp crackers. We found this combination so delicious and funny…
Continue readingPanna Cotta is an Italian dessert. You can make Panna Cotta in various flavors and colors. I make the base Panna Cotta regularly and also Panna Cotta with fruit, but a matcha Panna Cotta I had never made, let alone…
Continue readingOn 7 March 2020, we went to restaurant 212 (Amstel 212 in Amsterdam) with friends. The restaurant’s website is https://212.amsterdam. The restaurant is a member of Les Patrons Cuisiniers(https://www.lespatronscuisiniers.nl). This was the second time one of us visited this restaurant….
Continue readingWe ate a curry lemongrass soup in a restaurant in Austria some years ago. We loved this soup as it is spicy, creamy and sour. It is not a tom ka soup, but a creamy Thai soup. I was lucky…
Continue readingSince a year I make my own pasta. I learned to make pasta from the blog of Stefan Boer and he taught me how to make it. He is a star in making Italian dishes. It is always a feast…
Continue readingWe went to restaurant Mario Uva (https://restaurantmario.nl) in Neck on a Saturday evening in February 2020. In 2019 the restaurant won the award for best Italian restaurant in The Netherlands again. In the past this restaurant had a Michelin star…
Continue readingWe went to restaurant De Nederlanden (https://www.nederlanden.nl) in Vreeland (Duinkerken 3) in February 2020. We have been here several times before. The restaurant has one Michelin star since 1999 and restaurant De Nederlanden is part of Les Patrons Cuisiniers. The…
Continue readingSpicy food is something I really like. Spices are very important for food and the Thai kitchen knows how to use spices. This dish can be a bit spicy, however due to the coconut milk it becomes less spicy. If…
Continue readingLobster risotto is one of my most favorite dishes. I regularly prepare lobster risotto and this time I wanted something else. I wanted the lobster risotto in a lobster bisque. So I decided to combine two recipes I normally use…
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