This pie can just as easily be made with walnuts of course. It’s a classic with a twist, because instead of making a butter cream, you use mascarpone. It’s a quick option and the taste is great, the mascarpone makes it just a tat lighter and ‘fresher’ then the butter variety. You can make the [...]

Again a weekend full of bread flavours and smells. The best thing to be done when all you get outside is rain, rain and more rain. In fact the weather was so bad that our Dutch Santa, the famous ‘Sinterklaas’ , did not pay us a visit on his birthday yesterday. So I turned out [...]

Life is too short for bad coffee. So I strive to let my crema ooze out of the espresso machine like thick amber honey (like we did in the picture). Not an easy task, but practice makes perfect. Making a good espresso is almost an art. It’s hard to get it right with every shot. [...]

Working with quality coffee and roasting our own beans over the past years has done a lot for our appreciation of a fine cup. It’s not that we drink a lot, normally just one espresso or cappuccino a day, but we give our cup a lot of love and attention. A little knowledge about the [...]

Veel mensen weten niet eens dat dat kan: thuis koffie branden. En in Nederland schijnen er ook maar een handjevol mensen te zijn die het doen. Wij zijn ook van die mensen. Het begint met een goede espressomachine, dan komt er een bonenmaler (omdat je dan weer zoveel wint aan versheid en bij elke maling [...]