Don’t you just love to eat French fries at home? We do at our home. Usually we buy a bag of frozen fries to prepare in our deep-fryer, but making the fries ourselves is even yummier. There are so many delicious ways to serve potatoes, but fries is definitely one …
Broccolini is the less famous sister of broccoli. It’s a crossing between broccoli and gai lan (Chinese broccoli). Broccolini with anchovy is a perfect combination and a great side dish. Broccolini is also called baby broccoli. It’s a green vegetable which looks like broccoli, but with smaller florets and thinner, …
Potatoes are a good side dish. If you want a variation on the regular boiled potatoes, mashed potatoes or potato slices, then crispy potato skins are a good idea. Serve them with parmesan cheese and you have a perfect side dish. So how to make crispy potato skins? The potatoes …
We’ve road tripped across the US several times and on one of our last trips we had a Thanksgiving like dinner, which included stuffing. This made me curious to make it at home, so I used an easy recipe for stuffing and prepared it at home. We loved this easy …
We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in the Netherlands, however I was curious to try out traditional recipes made on that day. So I tried out Baked Sweet Potato Casserole. The combination of sweet potatoes and marshmallows sounded odd, and candy in a main dish was new, but we loved it. Although …
You either hate it or love it: chicory. It can be really bitter, hence why it’s not everyone’s favorite. Today we’re making Chicory with Egg Mimosa. This time the chicory isn’t cooked and doesn’t go in the oven, no you stir fry the chicory shortly. This way it’s not soft, …
Feta is a cheese I find very delicious and I love puff pastry. So this Broccoli and Feta Puff Pastry is the perfect dish for everyone that loves feta and/or puff pastry. It’s a perfect side dish or if you make small broccoli feta turnovers from it, you can serve …
A different way to serve red beets. I wanted to present red beets in a non-traditional way, normally it’s just cooked red beets. In comes this sweet and sour red beets recipe. A totally different, but delicious way to serve red beets as a side dish. Presenting a veggie in …
After the broccoli with coconut, another recipe from the cookbook ‘Sri Lanka Food’ from Sarogini. And again another perfect side dish, this Aromatic Ghee Rice. I simply love rice, especially when prepped with a good seasoning or other flavors added. This Ghee fragrant rice can be perfectly paired with the …
The Sri Lankan cuisine is less known compared to the Indian cuisine, but equally delicious. A few years ago I got an Sri Lankan food cookbook as a present and I’ve already made some fabulous recipes from it. The cookbook is called ‘Sri Lanka Food’ from Sarogini. Broccoli with coconut …