Terrible chicken pox came to visit Ed last week. Never knew these little pests could make an adult so sick. So no baking in this household because we had other priorities. Mine where cooking, washing, cleaning, attending, checking, running errands, calling doctors, worrying, more checking, entertaining, distracting etcetera and Ed’s mission was and is! trying [...]

Roses and food are my new special interest. Rose water in cakes, rose candy, rose flavoured ice cream, it’s everywhere if you have an eye for it. On top of the Rose list at the moment is Rose Liqueur. I love a splash of rose liqueur in a glass of prosecco with added rose petals [...]

I like Heinz Ketchup, although as a good Dutch girl I really love mayonaise with my frietjes (fries). I ones visited the Heinz factory as a student and I really liked the fact that their products taste good and do not contain much of the awful additives you can do without. But there is something [...]

‘Chocolate is something you eat for pleasure, until you discover the appalling things that happen on cocoa plantations. In the production of cocoa beans even children are being exploited. Slavery still exists. Dutch journalist and documentarian Tony van de Keuken met with former child slaves from Burkina Faso who worked without wages and under atrocious [...]

I can’t remember ever eating avocado as a child. I don’t even know if they were available then. But in more recent years this pear shaped ‘berry’ has taken my liking more and more. I notice myself trying to sneak in avocado with all kinds of dishes. And as I learned more about the nutritional [...]