My expat life in the Netherlands!
Fear. Panic. Emptiness. Drained. Confused. These are some of the feelings that went through me when my life changed on August 1. My boyfriend got diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. It was very difficult to wrap my head around this. He’s very young and I associate lung cancer with older men or women who…
Here is a simple recipe of Baby Spaghetti Bolognese that you can make while you prepare Bolognese for adults. We used the sauce in a pasta bake with grilled aubergine and lots of mozzarella and padano. Baby got this: Baby Spaghetti Bolognese, a small bowl 2 tablespoons red onion, chopped 1 teaspoon garlic, minced a…
It’s spring and it’s the season of the white gold or the queen of vegetables as white asparagus is called here. We love it! These two recipes are how we like to enjoy white asparagus. We also have a third way: with hollandaise sauce. Yummy! This recipe I got from a Belgian guy during my…
Happy Easter everyone! Vrolijk Pasen allemaal! Glad påsk allihopa! The plan was that my parents would come this Easter to see their grandchild for the first time. She was born in October last year but because of corona my parents haven’t been able to visit yet. I hope that the virus will be more under…
During the first wave of Corona in the Netherlands, there was at times difficulties in getting flour in the supermarkets. Because of this, I bought some corn meal at the Asian supermarket to experiment with (maybe not a very Asian ingredient, but in the Asian supermarkets here you can get food from a big range…
Here comes a simple recipe with hardly any prepping or watching of the stove. Ingredients 2 chicken thighs 1/2 onion, minced ketchup, enough to cover the chicken in the pot onion powder paprika powder a pinch of cayenne worchestershire sauce apple cider vinegar mustard sugar salt pepper Clean the chicken if needed. Mince the onion….
In november 2019 my fiancee and I went to Japan. We went from Tokyo to Hiroshima with multiple stops along the way. One of them was Kobe. Kobe is a cute relatively small Japanese city with lots of food options. And their own Manneke pis. And the cutest Starbucks location. The city museum is a…
The first dinner from the weekly menu of Week 5 was Swedish fish balls with curry sauce. I’ve a very strained relationship with Swedish style fish balls. The only ones I tried was from a can and tasted…mhm…fishy and weird to be nice. They look like this: After reluctantly trying thai fish cakes, I’m in…
One thing I’m trying to do more often is to write a menu for the entire week and do all the grocery shopping on Sundays and only top up during or go to speciality shops like the Asian store during the week. For this week, this is the plan: Swedish fish balls with curry sauce…
In january 2018 my boyfriend and I went to Vietnam for a month. We went from Hanoi down south, via Ha Long Bay, Danang, Hue, Hoi An, Nha Trang, Dalat, Mekong Delta and ending in Ho Chi Minh (Saigon). This is my impression of Hanoi, mostly through food, because that’s who I am! No food,…