Archive for October, 2007


South of England : Memorable Food Moments



I’m happy, and the simple reason is all the glorious food moments I already encountered in my life. Many will follow hopefully, and recently I scored a few bonus points when visiting England. I have been to England and Scotland more then a few times, but oddly enough some might say, there were some staple [...]



10+ Hot Toastie Ideas



I distinctly remember when toasties (tosti if you’re Dutch) came into fashion with our family. All of a sudden everybody had a ‘hot toastie iron’. Now this was something new and different to look forward to for lunch. Somehow we never got past the cheese and ham ones, except for the apple or apple sauce [...]



Fall Food Habits



Fall is in the air and I don’t mind. Because with autumn comes the promise of exiting food possibilities. The first of these joys was my brother giving me lots of walnuts from his own tree and beautiful Dutch apple pie apples. The apples stem from an old race called ‘Goudreinet’. They are very tart [...]





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