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 [...]

Bananas lying around doing nothing? Try putting them in a curry dish. I posted this recipe before, and recently it popped back in our minds when we saw we had some bananas that were turning rather yellow. Nothing wrong with that! You would say, that’s what they’re supposed to do. I know! But we both [...]

Between packing boxes for the upcoming big event of us moving house and trying to save the planet by communicating about energy saving projects, I also managed to bake a cake. Well actually it’s muffins disguised as cake, because I already packed all my backing trays and tins in a box not easily to retrieve [...]

This picture shows what happens to condensed milk if you boil it in the tin for at least 1,5 hours. I must confess I find condensed milk a bit gross: the substance, the colour, the smell and taste brrr (like something that has gone off, while in fact you can keep it forever). But when [...]