Poffertjes are mini pancake discs popular with parent and child alike. They are made in special pans and then topped with knobs of butter and a snow storm of icing sugar. Liquers, fruit, savoury toppings are well-know accompaniments to this Dutch delight. However, the Dutch scorn those who plate them up for breakfast. If in...
Making oven-roasted tomatoes is amongst the easiest things to do. All you need is an oven, some herbs and spices and you’re set to go. Especially when you can get tomatoes by the box. Roasted tomatoes are delightful and can be used in a variety of ways – from salads, to snacks, to pastes and sauces,...
Flickr…Thank you. Through Flickr, I got one of my photos of St Stephen’s cathedral in Vienna published in the 8th edition of the Schmap! I got an email one day asking if I’d like to submit my photo for the guide. If it got accepted they would let me know. I had nothing to lose so...
It all started when I opened the door…and stepped outside this morning To behold the beauty and colour that a rainbow brings Hope and courage were built up in my heart as the rainbow I saw arched over skies the grey and the blue, side by side, as clouds must be for a rainbow to form...
Sometimes you need a bottle quickly… but it’s wet. How can you dry it? Well here’s the solution to having a dry bottle in minutes. Back at home in Nigeria, whenever I needed to dry bottles, I’d put some garri in – similar in texture to couscous. Now I use couscous. First of all you...
All about | Dos & Don’ts | Preparation | Utensils | Cooking Vegetables| Vegetable list All about If you don’t know them, you can’t care for them…. or get the best out of them. That’s the philosophy behind this (useful, I hope) guide to vegetables. It will get updated as I find out and test more....
This is a collection of recipes using one basic recipe to make 3 dishes! It was inspired by a Dutch mustard soup a year ago! Some notes so far: Dutch Mustard Soup is a great one to start of this theme. You can have it as a soup, use it as a creamy sauce on steak...
Dry roasting is one of the easiest things to do – doesn’t take long, you get signs that whatever you’re roasting is ready but…. you need to keep an eye on it. Well since it takes just minutes, that shouldn’t be a problem. It works well for whole spices like coriander, cumin, cardamom seeds, cloves...
Never again will I panic about breadcrumbs when a recipe calls for dry breadcrumbs. And all because of beschuits or biscottes or whatever you call your dry bread rusks. Mind you in the past, I’ve used everything from fresh to stale bread and toasted bread. Now whenever I need breadcrumbs in a hurry, I get...