winter vegetables

We like to eat seasonally.

Tonight on the menu; roasted winter vegetables.

Super simple, healthy, tasty and easy to make with everything from the vegetable drawer.

Chioccia- and yellow beets, chicory, red onions and a mini cauliflower.

A colorful composition of sliced vegetables, before they go into the oven. Feast for the eyes.

Preheat the oven to 220 degrees Celsius. Place the various vegetables in the oven dish. Mix some olive oil with garlic, pepper, salt and herbs and drizzle the oil mixture over the vegetables.

Place the dish in the middle of the oven and roast the vegetables for about 15-20 minutes.

A delicious basic dish that you can actually combine with anything.

home-grown aubergine recipe

For dinner we had home-grown aubergine from the oven with curry, walnuts and honey.

A very simple vegetarian recipe for a quick surprise dinner. It looks exotic and oriental and has a very special taste.

Combine an aubergine with curry, walnuts and honey to get a real taste explosion. It takes only 10 minutes to prepare and the oven does the rest of the work. Serve it as a starter, side dish or lunch.

Ingredients for 2 people:

- 2 aubergines
- walnuts
- 2 cloves of garlic
- olive oil
- honey
- lemon juice
- curry
- salt
- black pepper

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Oven time: 1 hour

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Wash the aubergines, pat them dry and cut them lengthwise into thin slices and put them in a greased baking dish.

Brush the aubergines with olive oil and drizzle the honey and lemon juice over the top. Cut the garlic cloves into slices and divide them over the tops.

Finally, walnuts, curry, pepper and salt over the aubergines and put the baking tin in the oven. Bake the aubergines for about 1 hour. Keep a close eye on the aubergines during that time. If they get too brown on top, cover them with aluminum foil.

Meanwhile set the table attractively, because with a nicely set table, everything tastes even better!

PS: Last week I made a Moroccan Zaalouk salad with the first harvested aubergines.

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.

a merry & bright christmas for everyone

Happy Christmas Eve everyone!

A joyful Christmas to you all. Wishing you and your family happy holidays!

local saturday market

Saturday morning.

An early visit to the local market for fresh vegetables and flowers.

We chose anemones for the kitchen table.
Ingredients for tonight's tajine; carrots, fennel, sweet colored peppers, potatoes, snow peas, garlic olives, a preserved salted lemon and chicken.
Fresh figs and chocolate for dessert.

Today Dietske, owner of the coolest house in Amsterdam East, will visit us. She is a sweetheart, whom I met in May as a participant of the Green Gardens workshop in Marrakech. We obviously cook a proper moroccan meal for her. Tajine is already simmering on the stove...

summer dinner

Henk prepared us an insanely delicious dinner yesterday.
Not to mention the appetizing set table with our colorful dishes collection...
Applause for my sweetheart!

We had a lovely evening with friends and enjoyed the summer dinner with the delicious dishes from our favorite cookbook Souk.

The pretty peonies from the market on both sides of the table looked great and the adorable bouquet of Sweet Peas Lammie brought along.

There's nothing like a dinner in good company at a beautifully set table.

stove stuff

stove stuff, a photo by wood & wool stool on Flickr.

Following the teapot of 2010, you might think that's unbeatable, but this Christmas we've got again a superfun personal and useful Christmas gift from my employers.

An orange iron casserole and signed 'koninklijke gerechten', their brandnew own written and illustrated (royal dishes) cookbook.

The casserrole is already on the stove, as today we are celebrating another Christmas day with family.

pancakes recipe

wood & word sign pancakes recipe, a photo by wood & wool stool on Flickr.

Inspired by the pesto recipe, I've got a request to make another recipe.
This one is for the kitchen wall of my friend Inge and involves a 'Jip & Janneke' pancakes recipe;

pancakes
100 gram flour
2½ dl milk
1 egg
30 gram butter
salt

[zeezout]

[zeezout], a photo by wood & wool stool on Flickr.

Wood & word signs offer unlimited possibilities.

Last week I received such an original order again.

Pesto recipe in signs. That's awesome, what a cool idea!

This is the [sea salt] sign in my kitchen.

How to make pesto?

Here you will find all the ingredients in a row;

[50 gram basil leaves]
[1 clove garlic]
[20 gram pine nuts]
[sea ​​salt]
[50 gram pecorino]
[extra virgin olive oil]