A (presumably Dutch) ‘joke’ on carrot cake: A rabbit enters a bakery and asks the owner, ‘do you also sell carrot cake’? The owner said he didn’t so the rabbit left. The next day the rabbit came over again and asked the same question. The baker again mentioned he didn’t …
Thought ‘cooking fish’ always involves some sort of heat? You might just be mistaken! You can also ‘cook’ fish using only acids, no gas stove required. It’s what makes so-called ‘ceviche’ and gives eating fish a whole new dimension. Despite the lack of heat, the acids can transform raw fish …
Recently I received an e-mail on crowd ‘researching’ food science. I hadn’t seen such an initiative before and thought it was a great way to involve more people in research and learn from people from different backgrounds and eating cultures. It sounded like something that would be great to write …
When you’re looking for a super soft bread, look no further: a brioche style bread is what you’re looking for! A brioche bread has a soft, fluffy structure and slightly sweet flavour. It fits well with brunches and has the great advantage that it tends to keep a little longer than a …
Carrots are orange, aren’t they? No, not necessarily! Purple and yellow carrots are a relatively new variation of carrots in our supermarket (at least in my perception, until I found out it’s actually the purple ones that were there before the orange ones). Most supermarkets still only sell the orange …
Like donuts but don’t like their intense sweetness and stickiness? Feel like eating a sturdier donut that has a good bite and flavour of itself? Try making sourdough donuts! They are still light dough balls, but have a ton of flavour by themselves and feel a bit more substantial.
Milk free, gluten free, sugar free, you see these recipes all the time. Since I don’t have an allergie for milk, gluten or sugar, I don’t really use these, unless, they’re simply good recipes. Nevertheless, when I ran into this oat’s milk (which of course, isn’t real milk, as they …
It’s probably an even more familiar phenomenon than mouldy bread: mouldy cheese. And not just the cheeses that are meant to be mouldy, but mould growth on cheese that are not supposed to be covered in them. Dutch cheeses (like Gouda or Edam for instance) have a tendency to mould after …
A peanut butter with cucumber sandwich, is that a very weird combination? It’s how I like to eat my peanut butter sandwich though. Peanut butter seems to be one of those foods that are combined with just about anything. There’s peanut butter cookies (= photo on top of this post) and pies, it’s part of …
Cooling cookies according to instructions is not my ‘forte’. I tend to pull the cookies out of the oven, place them on any spot I can find and continue doing what I was doing. Even if instructions say otherwise, I tend to do it the easy way. And since I …
