Certain days are over before they really started. Today is one of those. So a bit of beautiful color will cheer me up.Pre boil 800 grams of beetroot for 20 mins. Remove the skin and chop in cubes.Clean 600 grams of purple potatoes. Cut in slices or cubes. Chop 1 red onion, 4 garlic cloves … More Purple day
A special edition of my favorite magazine has published 42 oven dishes. I have loads of inspiration for the following weeks. Roasted broccoli, potatoes, salmon and avocado caesar sauce is an excellent combination. For 2p, put 500 grams of potato wedges, 1 red onion in wedges, 4 chopped garlic cloves, 1 chopped chili and 600 … More Avocado caesar sauce
My new kitchen is almost ready. Whatever I cook feels like ‘something in between’, although I still appreciate our temporary cooking centre of this awesome house. Oil a medium sized elegant oven dish. Slice 2 large potatoes thinly. Spread in the oven dish. Slice one large red onion, 4 garlic cloves and 2 large tomatoes … More A pie with roots in Puglia
For 2p, cut 600 grams of washed potatoes in quarters. Cut 2 red onions in quarters. Cut 1 large fennel in slices. Put all together in an oven dish. Add a drizzle of olive oil, 4 chopped garlic cloves, 1 table spoon of dried basil. Bake in the oven at 200°for approx 45 mins. Stir … More Potatoes, fennel, courgettes and gorgonzola dolce😍
For 2p, chop 2 garlic cloves. Heat a large pan. Add a drizzle of olive oil. Add the garlic and 500 grams of fresh, clean spinach. Bake until the spinach has reduced until 3 handfuls of vegetables. Drain. Mix with 175 grams of ricotta, pepper and salt. Put 2 garlic cloves, 1 large handful of … More Spinach, tomato sauce and ricotta in a delicious vegetarian pasta dish
For 2p, chop 1 medium sized cauliflower in roses, and don’t forget to chop the stem. Mix the cauliflower with 4 chopped garlic cloves, 1 chopped red onion, 2 table spoons of sriracha, the juice of 1 lemon, 3 table spoons of bread crumb, 3 table spoons of grated parmigiano and 2 table spoons of … More Sriracha sauce, Thailand’s number 1 sauce! Recipe 1, thanks to my youngest and dear brother in law, Dennis.
Purple and orange carrots are a beautiful combination. Our menu of tonight will at least be beautiful. For 2p, clean 400 grams of orange and 400 grams of purple carrots. Chop in smaller pieces of 3-4 cm. Put in an oven dish or on baking paper. Add 1 table spoons of cumin seeds and a … More Roasted carrots in different colors
Cold and cloudy with something in between snow and rain are not my favorite ingredients. Iris did rearrange the unpacked boxes and I found the magimix tools. Internet showed me some ideas for our menu tonight. Rösti is real mountain food, ideal for this time of year. My friend, Magimix, grates 600 grams of washed … More Real winter food
When I was a teenager, living in Belgium, eggplant was known as an ingredient in ratatouille or in minestrone and that was about it. Travelling around Europe and the rest of the world I realized that eggplant is so much more than that. The only real important rule is : eggplant needs to be well … More Filled eggplant
If people ask me what my favorite dish is, there is no way I could give you an immediate answer. Followers of my blog can probably notice that I love to serve everything on one large plate ( call it Ottolenghi style or docV’s ;-)). I prefer to combine lots of vegetables (min 300 grams … More Wintersalad
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