About a week ago I felt the familiar itch to bake something. After all, it had been over a week! Seriously, before I started this blog I didn’t even bake once a month (I think) and now I can’t go without baking something for a week. How quickly things can change… I wanted to bake […]
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I thought apple turnovers were a Dutch delicacy, until I Googled them this morning. Turns out, they’re quite international! I didn’t do any extensive research on them or anything, but Wikipedia didn’t mention any specific origin, and Google gave lots of non-Dutch recipes, so that made things kinda clear. The reason I thought they were […]
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Christmas has come and gone again, and I hope everyone has had a great one! In the Netherlands we’ve got First Christmas Day on December 25, and Second Christmas Day on December 26. In other words, two days of great food and fun! On First Christmas Day my entire family came to celebrate Christmas at […]
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Last Friday a friend of mine hosted a party: The Grand Dessert Happening (literal translation of the Dutch “Het Grote Toetjesgebeuren”). It’s basically a party to which everyone has to bring some sort of dessert or baked good. The first edition was in June, and it was so much fun! One table was completely packed […]
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Remember the little project I started a few weeks ago, called Cookie Rookie? Well, since those raisin and hazelnut cookies turned out really good, I decided to try a new recipe this weekend! I had a real craving for chocolate, so it didn’t take me very long to decide what kind of cookies I would […]
Read MoreThere’s a storm going on where I live right now. A few weeks ago we had quite a big storm as well, and back then I decided to just stay inside all day. Today, however, it’s Saint Nicholas’ Eve (as you might have read about in my previous post) and I’m going over to my […]
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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 […]
Read MoreOn the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the slice. All at once her cheerful, can-do mother tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes perilous. […]
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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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Books Baking and Blogging 