Wonton
Noodles Soup Vegetables
10th March 2022

Wonton with shrimps

Wonton are Chinese filled dumplings to use in a soup or steamed, either alone or part of a dim-sum assortment.
This is a simple recipe with shrimps, vegetables and herbs.

Peren & kugel
Dessert Fruit Pastry Preserves
30th November 2021

My father’s favourite dessert with pears, ginger and dough

If there is one thing that my father cherishes from the Amsterdam-Jewish ancestry on his mother’s side, then it is this dessert that he often makes himself.
It’s called “Peren & Kuchel” in Dutch/Yiddish and that means ‘pears and cake’ but that does not really describe it well as the ‘cake’ is a ball of dough that slowly cooks in the pear-liquid.

pancakes
eggs jams Main dish
21st November 2021

Pancakes, à ma façon

Pancakes are so well-known and common that there are many recipes. I started making mine from a Dutch cookery book ‘Margriet” that my parents gave me when I left the house to study. For a while, I added yeast to get thicker pancakes as I was looking for a more substantial dish than the French crêpes that are great for desserts but not as a […]

Axoa
Main dish Pasta Veal
14th March 2021

Axoa, a Basque veal dish

I had been reading a book that involved a police woman from the Basque country and I wanted to prepare something of the local cuisine. Axoa is a dish of simmered shoulder of veal with peppers, chili and Espelette chili powder. I first cut a red and yellow bell pepper into small squares and chopped up a large onion. Then I sliced the veal in […]

tournedos Rossini
Beef
31st December 2020

Tournedos Rossini

This exquisite dish lends its name from Italian composer Gioachino Rossini who lived in Paris for two long periods in his life.

It is not only exquisite but also extravagant as it combines three nobel and expensive ingredients — beef filet, foie gras and truffle.