summer food

Saturday 22nd of July

Summer food inspired by La Famille Marrakech cookbook. Because it's such a blissful summer evening..., not! We made it a summer evening and it certainly was summer food.



Saturday dinner in the kitchen. Instead of the pizzetta base, Henk used Libanese bread which is super easy!

RECIPE:

Pizzetta number one:
Libanese bread (heat up in the oven for a while)
beetroot hummus
tabbouleh salad
and orange slices on top

Pizzetta nummer two:
Libanese bread (heat up in the oven for a while)
yazzara (vegetable dip made of pumpkin, carrot, cream and ginger)
grilled tomatoes and yellow bell pepper from our own mini vegetable garden
and pomegranate seeds on top

Served with mandolin sliced cucumber & radish salad


Bon appetit!

how d'ya like your eggs in the morning?

Saturday 18th of February 2023

When he asks how I want my egg and I say surprise me...

Henk prepared all the options; fried egg, omelette, boiled egg, scrambled egg and a poached egg. Bon appetit!

greek taverna

Pretending to have dinner in a greek taverna, with a recipe from the cookbook Greek Islands by Rebecca Seal.

Simple and fresh summer food always brings back good memories. As long as we can't travel, we can cook and fill the kitchen with delicious scents that evoke a feeling of travel...

Tonight we traveled back to 2010 when we went with Minne & Pippa to Crete, one of the many Greek Islands we've visited over the past 35 years.

The islands we've been to in random order; Mykonos, Milos, Naxos, Paros, Kos, Crete, Skiathos, Skopelos, Santorini and Rhodes.

Let's toast to the day that we are sitting on a bright blue chair at a tavern by the sea again.

sabich

How to cure wanderlust when you can't travel?

Well as long as we can't travel, we can still cook and fill the kitchen with delicious scents that evoke a feeling of travel.

Yesterday I cooked Sabich, a simple and delicious veggie dish from the Neni Tel Aviv cookbook.

lunch hour

Today I'm going to try one of the recipes from my new cookbook. I'll make the salad with avocado, apple, pomegranete and mint. Sounds okay right?!

La Famille has released a cookbook of their Moroccan-Italian recipes.
The cookbook was a gift from my friend and workshop partner Ank, because it's one of our favorite lunch places in the Medina.

urban kitchen jungle

Another plant in tha house.

The green corner in the living room gets crowded. No more space for this pink-red large leaved beauty, so we've put it in the corner of the kitchen. Temporarily...
I'm still looking for a nice way to put all plants together in the room.
Maybe a plant table collection underneath the stairs?

Suggestions anyone?

what's for dinner?

I don't allow myself to buy another cookbook for the time being.
As long as there are at least four cookbooks on the cart, from which we have not tried a single recipe yet...
We have so many wonderful cookbooks and yet I do not know what to make for dinner tonight?

summer food

We made another delicious recipe from the wonderful cookbook THE SOUK by Salma Hage.
Last weekend we chose chicken with green lentils & a taboulé salad and I can assure you it was so tasteful and quite easy to make.

It surely is a bonus when you can eat such a summer meal outside the garden.

Nothing beats having dinner together in the backyard!

publication [yvestown in de keuken]

What a book! I'm in love...

The pictures, the personal stories and the way it was designed!

Couldn't be better.

I read the book thoroughly for the second time in bed last night and every single story and chapter of the book is so brilliant.

The book has a place of honour on the serving cart (next to the matching green Sissy Boy towel) and the bright ribbon is obviously exactly where our colorful [tajine] chapter in this feel-good-cook-book starts.

Oh man, I'm as proud as a peacock!

ps: [o, wat zie ik je graag Yvonne]

[yvestown in de keuken] book launch

A photo report of the book launch at Sissy Boy Homeland in Amsterdam yesterday.
What a party!
Everyone was having a great time and the book?! the B O O K is even better!
A big applause for Yvonne and Roel.