It’s really hard to find a good ripe mango here in Holland. It must feel so exotic to be able to pick one sun ripened from a tree in your back yard (or maybe not if you are used to it). I dare not think how green the mango’s get plucked that end up here [...]

There was a time, long ago and far away in my memory, I thought about risotto as a kind of fried rice. In a sense this is true, because in the early stages of the risotto making process you actually fry the rice in oil. But I wish somebody had told me about the creaminess [...]

After the stress of moving into our new home had subsided, we easily fell in to our routine of watching BBC’s Saturday Kitchen for culinary relaxation and inspiration. Last episode of this season featured Italian Gennaro Contaldo (won’t he ever grow tired of hearing he brought Jamie Oliver to fame I wonder..) making a chicken [...]

Imagine going to Alaska and catching a wild salmon, snatching it away just in front of a grizzly bear. Well, like many people, I am no hero when it comes to surviving in the wilderness and catching your own ‘food’. Lucky for people who are afraid of fish hooks there is somebody called Frank Heyn [...]

I have been noticing lots of bright salad ideas on the web lately. I think everybody, on the northern hemisphere at least, is longing for the light green freshness of early spring. With my camellia already in bloom (which is something to worry rather than be cheerful about to be honest) I think spring will [...]