On the fifth of December the Dutch people celebrate their own gift giving holiday called Sinterklaas-avond (Saint Nicholas’ Eve). It’s quite similar to American Christmas: it involves a man with a beard and red clothes who gives gifts. In fact, the American Santa Claus is based on the Dutch Sinterklaas. Sinterklaas lives in Spain and arrives in […]
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This weekend I decided I wanted to make some cookies. However, it wasn’t until I was already busy making them that I realised I’m a bit of a cookie rookie. I love to bake and am getting quite good at it (if I do say so myself) but for some reason I don’t tend to […]
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About five weeks ago I had my 20th birthday, and yesterday I received a belated gift from my friend Jitske (yes, we are both aware of the fact her name looks like “jetski” (and have joked about many a time) — it’s a Dutch name). She gave me the cutest little baking set, which you […]
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This weekend I had a friend coming over for lunch, so I wanted to bake something nice, but I didn’t feel like going all out with ingredients. In fact, I didn’t want to leave my warm and cosy home to go to the supermarket, so it had to be done with stuff I already had […]
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The other day I was having lunch with my mother at La Place, which is a chain of buffet type restaurants in the Netherlands. Their food is usually pretty good — albeit a bit too expensive for a poor little student like yours truly — but La Place doesn’t exactly scream “passion for food”. Anyway, […]
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The brownie – arguably the most loved baked goodie around. I, at least, have encountered few people who don’t like this chocolate-y piece of heaven. There is this one friend of mine who said she didn’t like them — until she tasted my brownies, that is… So here’s the recipe for my favourite sweet treat: the […]
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Books Baking and Blogging 