In my little city greenhouse the tomatoes are finally ripening. This year the plums are a bit later than usual and this morning I picked both and decided to make a refreshing cold summer soup with plums and tomatoes. I don’t like my soup…
Cakes and mini speculoos cookies (kruidnootjes) are both delicious of course, so why not try a combination of the two: speculoos cookie cake? During the online masterclass about cakes I did for delicious. magazine I turned a regular cake into a speculoos cookie cake by…
_______________________________ Who doesn’t love pizza! Of course you can make pizza with dried yeast or baker’s yeast, but if you have some bread starter in your fridge, you can just as easily make the most delicious sourdough pizza Margherita. Just as crispy with nicely…
In my little city greenhouse the tomatoes are finally ripening. This year the plums are a bit later than usual and this morning I picked both and decided to make a refreshing cold summer soup with plums and tomatoes. I don’t like my soup…
This year it was warm long enough for a second fig harvest! My November figs are slightly smaller and slightly less sweet than this year’s summer figs. The leaves of my tree have almost all fallen and the figs look like Christmas baubles on a…
I always forget how long it takes to pick a decent amount of wild blueberries! I went out into the woods this weekend and in about an hour I only managed to pick a few handfulls. To make the most of my precious berries…
The blackcurrant is maybe the most laid-back berry in the garden. They do not all ripen at the same time and you can easily leave them hanging for a while even when they are ripe. Birds usually do not have such an appetite for these…
From the last rhubarb and the first berries in my garden I made a tasty berry and rhubarb soda. The recipe is very simple. You mix a good amount of chopped fruit with some sugar in water for a few days. During that time…
In my sunny south-facing garden, the red shiso or perilla is having a great time and forms big bushy shrubs. I love the fragrant foliage of this Japanese herb and use it in my cooking often. Now that the cold nights are approaching, it’s…
