I have added new addresses to my ‘A Taste of Holland’ file. In this file I have collected the best culinary shops in our mayor cities. This is a list with the best bakeries, cake shops, tea and coffee sellers, cheese shops, fish mongers, chocolate makers, delicatessen and kitchenware stores Holland has to offer. [...]

Yesterday my new book ‘Nigella Christmas’ finally arrived. Today the first (and who knows last) snow of the season fell. We immediately got into the Holiday spirit. We lighted the fireplace, put on some festive music and started cooking and baking and drinking hot chocolate with a little extra.

Leafing through the fresh pages of [...]

Matcha is the new magic green. Matcha is a type of powdered green tea grown in the shade and traditionally used in the Japanese tea ceremony. Look around and you will encounter it everywhere. Not only as the tea that it actually is, though in grinded form, but also added to such items as cake [...]

This is a our own version of a recipe Eds grandmother got when she got her first gas oven in the 1950’s. The recipe was published in a booklet from the gas company. The cookies are very crisp with an intense buttery caramel taste. Perfect as a little treat with a cup of hot cocoa [...]

‘Arnhemse Meisjes’ (Girls from the city of Arnhem) are my absolute favourite traditional Dutch cookies in the world. They are flaky, caramel crispy light with a sweet crunch.. These cookies look like they are made from some kind of puff pastry but that’s not the case. Some people make them with ready made puff pastry, [...]