A lot of ‘western’ recipes for cakes, cookies and pies contain eggs. But if you don’t eat eggs, no matter the reason, that can be quite a challenge. In most recipes you can’t just leave out the eggs. Eggs tends to have several roles in the recipe and thus will …
As you might know by now (example 1, 2 and 3), pancakes are a great way to illustrate culture and science of food. So when a fellow Dutch blogger recently wrote about ‘Dutch baby’ pancakes, it was time to try those out! This is the first pancake type on this blog …
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 …
Cookies + science = happiness, isn’t it? We’ve discussed cookie science quite a few times here on the blog. Whether it’s the role of different ingredients, the role of food colouring or just to share recipes. We haven’t discussed though what happens in the oven, where the cookie actually gets transformed …
French toast is one of my favorite ways to finish old, stale bread. A good soak in a soggy egg mixture, softens the bread and still makes it great to eat. When in high school one of the first things I was taught to make in cooking classes was French …
Since a couple of years now we have an ice cream machine. It’s been used plenty, for all sorts of ice creams. Since I don’t like doing the same recipe over again and again (some exceptions though, this bread has been made tons of times), I tend to change something different …
Making a custard with eggs can be a hassle. You are looking for that thick, smooth, velvety structure, but if you heat the custard too quickly, or don’t stir enough, the eggs tend to curdle and your whole custard is ruined, forcing you to start over. There’s a way around …
Around Christmas time, someone in our household really wanted to make our own eggnog. Despite the fact that I didn’t really know what eggnog was (guessing it was something with raw eggs and alcohol, it appeared I actually wasn’t too far off) I agreed quite quickly. Why? Because it gave …
You know that feeling: having only one ticket left at a food festival and deciding what to buy with it? Because of course, you don’t want to have any left-over tickets, but ooh, there’s so much to choose from! It’s exactly what we had at our previous food truck festival. …
One of the very first recipes I learned to make is French Toast. It was one of the recipes we learned to cook during a high school classs, before that I might have cooked buy not really following recipes. After learning how to make this cinnamon french toast (in Dutch …
