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Meat balls (Gehaktballen)
Meat balls are something that could easily be found essentially in every world cuisine. They are made with meat or fish. Recently we have been in Sicily and we have had great tuna ones. If you visited...
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Upside-down peach cake (Torta rovesciata)
A mistake. One of those that you do in the kitchen , maybe a distraction . That’s what happened to the Tatin’s Sisters: they wanted to make an apple pie but they baked the fruit accidentally. But...
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Onion and egg pastry
PUFF PASTRY, called pâte feuilletée or feuilletage in France, is a light, flaky made by repeatedly layering pastry dough and butter to form a thin dough that puffs in the oven (for this recipe we...
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Potato & pumpkin cappuccino
Last weekend we had some guests over for dinner and we wanted to create something a bit different, something to impress. My mum is a great cook, she is a true Italian woman, one of those that enjoys...
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Homemade ricotta & mushroom ravioli
We like homemade food, a lot. Years ago I lived in the UK, and food over there was not as it is now. I recall dreadful trips to the supermarket where fresh food was nowhere to be seen. Local markets...
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Rice noodle salad with tofu and egg
This week we are flying to Vietnam. Vietnamese cuisine is becoming more and more popular across the globe , in some countries, like US and France, it has been the case for years. If we think of...
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Pistachio-cream chocolate Éclair
An éclair is a pastry made with choux dough filled with a cream and topped with icing. The dough is the same as that used for profiterole. Once cool, the pastry then is filled with a flavoured custard...
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Grilled Pork Fresh Spring Rolls
Fresh spring rolls have Vietnam written all over it, there are meat and vegetarian versions. They are eaten across all of Vietnam with various dipping sauces. The most common are Fish sauce, hoisin...
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Tres leches cake
This autumn is proving to be a great one so far here in Amsterdam. I am pleased to say our heating is still off, and that can only be good news! Last weekend it was Halloween and we threw a party, not...
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Aubergine twist
In the last couple of weeks much has been said about processed meat and how badly it can affect our health, with the WHO saying an overwhelming amount of evidence links processed meat to cancer. I am...
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Pumpkin Flan
Sinterklass has finally arrived. The holiday season has begun. Looking at the weather forecast the cold is about to hit us any day now. This is the time of mulled wine, sitting by the fireplace and...
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Alessandra cake
Alessandra cake is a creamy almond cherry cake full of flavours and so tasty. It is an invention of one of my favourite patissiers ,Ernst Friedrich Knam. Ernst named this cake as his wife, Alessandra....
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Ricotta pear cake (Torta ricotta e pere)
Ricotta pear cake (Torta ricotta e pere) recipe for today takes us back to beautiful Italy; a dish that originates from Campania region, specifically from the Amalfi coast. If you happen to visit that...
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Vietnamese chicken curry (Cà ri gà)
Cà Ri Gà is the Vietnamese version of a chicken curry stew. It’s hearty, incredibly aromatic and the flavors get better over time. The rich Cà Ri Gà can be served with jasmine rice or with rice...
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Pumpkin cake
This will be our last recipe before Christmas, and we are leaving you with another idea for a Christmas cake. This will most likely be what we will serve at boxing day. This cake has all the element...
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WE ARE BACK!!!
We are back! Yes, we are!! It took us sometimes to get our ideas back on track, but we have finally made it. We are terribly sorry for the disappearance, we were extremely busy on a couple of projects...
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Mung bean hummus
Ciao everyone, As mentioned already last time, one of the reason why we were also very busy is that we launched our own food tour. It was something we had in mind for quite some time and we finally...
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Hamburg and food
Hope all of you had a great Easter. Hoang and I decided to take some time off and drive to Germany. We were looking for a nice exotic place where to go for our long weekend and our choice was: Hamburg...
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Intreccio bacon and zucchini
Hello beautiful people, Our blog is just about one year old. Since then we posted over 70 recipes, and we are so pleased to how it looks today. We truly hope to be able to continue doing this for a...
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Codfish cake (Bolinhos de Bacalhau)
A week ago we got back from a great trip to Portugal. For me that was the second time I visited the country, for Hoang it was the first time. We took my mother with us and we met with a friend whilst...
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