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Carroty Carrot cake
Amsterdam is a beautiful city, it has a trashy side, but when you live in the city you never end up going there. It is the same everywhere, each time we go to London we never spend time in the center....
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Dark wholegrain Olive bread
What a wonderful weekend! As mentioned in my post last week, we have been blessed with great weather, and we made the most of it. We went to the beach with some friends, it took us quite some time to...
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Prawn Farro Salad
Farro is one of Italy’s most precious wheats. It has a great versatility and can be used for salads and soups. Very common in Tuscany. The recipe of today is Farro salad with asparagus, bacon and...
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Salmon, courgette & strawberry salad
This is a salmon and strawberry starter, it is done with courgette and mint. It is fresh and has a true summer feeling. We also added some lime for the extra kick The apartment where we live is cute,...
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Berries Pavlova
Today’s recipe is a true classic: Pavlova. A meringue with strawberry sauce and a selection of berries to go on top and whipped cream. This is a timeless dessert. According to online sources the dish...
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Grilled pork & noodles (Bún chả)
Bún chả (Grilled pork & noodles) is a special dish which is popular in Hanoi. The grilled pork is dipped in a light fish sauce with pickled vegetables and served with plenty of fresh vegetables...
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Potato, aubergine, mushroom mess
A dish with 4 of the most common, and yet delicious, ingredients: Potatoes, aubergines (eggplants), mushrooms and bacon. It is simple and it goes well with red meat Ciao everyone! Hope you had a great...
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Luca starter with leek, bacon and cream cheese
An extremely easy and to-die-for starter that will make your guests, or loved one, to ask for more. Only a few simple ingredients: leek, bacon, cream cheese, eggs and bread. This is the Luca starter,...
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Lime Orange Curd with Berries
If you have some egg yolks left, this Lime Orange Curd with Berries could be the solution. A simple and yet tasty dessert, that takes a few minutes to make. Our holiday is approaching and I cannot...
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Beef Noodle Salad (Bún bò Nam bộ)
This is a name that the people from the north call it, literally means ‘Southern beef noodle’. However, if you go to find this dish in the south of Vietnam, just ask for grilled beef noodle. What I...
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Gnocchi in crab sauce
Gnocchi are type of thick and soft dumplings, made from wheat flour, potato and egg. They are then served in crab sauce and a few leaves of parsley or basil. Simple and delicious Italian dish! Yes, we...
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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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