Beef Wellington
Beef Wellington is a dish made with a fine piece Tenderloin (‘Ossehaas’ in Dutch). It is a good piece of meat for days with festivities because part of the preparation can be done in the morning (they take about …
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Recipes, pictures, inspiration, and other mouth watering material
A Propos Bistro
Last weekend I got “A Propos Bistro” by Stephane Reynaud. A book with 299 mouth watering recipes, great pictures, great recipes, and a bit of humor. It is one of the best cookbooks that I’ve laid my hands on recently. Although …
Confit de Canard
This years Christmas I decided to live up to the Duck Dogma (“Whenever you see Duck, eat it!”) and made Confit de Canard. Confit is a means of preparation where one starts with salting the meat and then cook it gently, …
300 Chocolates
I watched ‘300’ yesterday. I have an idea for a graphic review of that movie but for now I cannot resist the urge for chocolates.
From OpenCola to Bin Laden
I just stumbled upon a Wikipedia lemma on opencola. The recipy contains a fair amount of Gum Arabic. That reminded me of a book by Dorrit van Dalen that recently appeared at Bert Bakker publishers that is high on my …
December Cooking
I have not had a lot of time for bogging lately. But even two weeks into the new year I feel like writing about the joys of December: the food. Christmas has never been my favorite kind of festivity. I …
Culinary Principles
Many people drink champagne on special occassions. Actually they drink champagne, or a Méthode champenoise, exclusively on special occassions. “Any occassion is good enough to drink Champagne” And then there is the Duck Dogma: “Whenever you see Duck, eat …
Mud.. mud.. more mud..
This here is “Hemelse Modder”, “Heavenly Mud”. Its the signature dish of one of my favorite Amsterdam restaurant bearing name: Hemelse Modder. This restaurant has been in existence for over a decade and serve this dish on a daily basis. …
Bad Publicity?
I first posted about last weeks restaurant experience to the IETF mailing list. That message could actually have some impact: try to google for "Restaurant Le Ternes Pereire".