on the way home after a wonderful tasting menu of food and wines in a great gastro cafe   geweldig   the next morning at the market where we had lunch in a simple cafe behind the market we did not even have to reserve , the fish and shellfish was onflow from the market to feast our eyes on the views, the local products and the wines

The lusten en niet de lasten I translate to The pleasure without the work There is something special about dining with friends and often we do not do it enough as it is too much work It need not be! I last dined with my Proffesional Culinary Network in Asch with Emily van Woerd from Koken op Hout www.kokenophout.nl She had obviously gone to a lot of work setting it up and laying the table and preparing the barbecues. To start she had invited a friend an “Oyster man “ who I had previously met at Taste of Amsterdam. A glass of rhubarb prosecco in the sun and then to…

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Just some interesting Italian words and a few recipes With autumn coming I think Italian… And am going yo the Food a Expo in Milan at the end of the month–Cannot wait.. Tasting the oysters in Bergen A Aceto: Azijn, witte of rode wijnazijn. Vinegar, white or red Aceto Balsamico: Een specialiteit uit Modena en Reggio Emilia, deze azijn wordt niet van wijn maar van ingekookt druivensap gemaakt en minstens 12 jaar bewaard op houten vaten. A speciality from Modena and Reggio Emilia, this vinegar is not made from wine but from reduced (cooke down)grape juice and is kept for at least 12 years in wooden casks. Alla Parmigiana: Met…

A day in the Office Preparing for the Tuinendagen in the 1990’s IN A NUTSHELL I arrived in Holland with my two wire-haired dachshunds in 1974 together with my Dutch husband Frank. Within a few months we had found an old farmhouse, which had been the entrance hall and foyer of the Old Mickery theatre in Loenersloot. We spent months converting this thatched farmhouse into a beautiful home, of course with an open kitchen. This is where I started giving my cooking lessons. After the break up of my marriage in 1977, and with the help of good friends, I found a small flat in the Kerkstraat in Amsterdam and…


Our first and most exciting visit on the way was to Ballymaloe Cooking school in Shanaggry, owned by Darina Allen and her husband Tim, it was fantastic. It is 25 years since I was last there and the way the school and grounds have expanded in the time is incredible, but then with acres of farmland at ones disposal, and a large creative family, they have four children and innumerable grand children all living within 10 minutes of Ballymaloe, that is maybe not to difficult, but it takes alot of hard work and dedication. That is also not including Rory, Darinas’ brother who started the school with her in 1983 on her…

The Kitchen garden or potager ( the French term for a Kitchen Garden), was in days gone bye more often than not, made up of geometrically laid out, ornamental beds of vegetables, herbs and flowers. These beds where surrounded by small box hedges. Fortunately some of these gardens still remain to this day, and others are being recreated. I was lucky enough to run a culinary and garden tour in France together with Ahrend Jan van de Horst in the 1980’s. We had two coaches with 40 garden and culinary enthusiast. It started off with a problem, on the way to Paris, whilst stopping for a pause, we found that…