I guessed you noticed that I was absent for a little while. Needed to land back on my feet after the wonderful book tour my husband Oof and I just did in the USA. A full story will follow soon, we first need to sort out all the pictures, but I wanted to say THANK YOU first. Thank…

Please join me at one of the upcoming happenings! I’m so excited to come over to the USA again. Thanks to my wonderful publisher Abrams Books, New York, we have quite a list of events open to public to celebrate my third book Home Made SUMMER, so please tag along if your in the neighborhood. I will…

For Libelle’s XL issue #09, I cooked huge bowls of hot soup. As spring is nowhere to be found here in freezing Holland, we might as well have a comforting bowl of soup I thought. You can find the recipe for Pasta e Fagioli here (in Dutch), or you can click on the picture itself….

Baking is one of things I like to do best. If I’m in a bad mood or tired even, baking something, anything, will get me back on track. For Libelle #10 I baked a little story, and I wasn’t even in a bad mood nor tired! The recipe for the first cake (Apple, Parsnip &…

My dear friends Guusje & Jade came over to my kitchen one day to help me cook a whole story for Libelle #11. I have known Guusje all my life and I know that she and her best friend Jade can really cook! Guusje often helps me out in the kitchen and has even prepared…

Yesterday afternoon the Dutch Cookbook of the Year awards were presented at the beautiful National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam. Our book Home Made SUMMER was nominated in the ‘Best Dutch Cookbook’ category, so we were really happy already. We didn’t win that prize this time, the lovely book on baking: ‘Het Nederlands Bakboek’ did, and…

We featured these beautiful salads in Libelle #02. I loved this topic because it is something very close to me. I love to whizz up a salad and add something hot to it to make it more dinner-ish. What’s your favourite simple & healthy dish for a normal weekday? Photography: Jeroen v/d Spek, prop styling:…

Elle Magazine asked Oof and me if we would like to make a page together on how we celebrate the December holidays. So this is how we like to do it. Translated: We usually spend the holidays together, in our little Paris’ apartment. We play the stupidest old French records and drink lots of champagne….

A little message to wish you all a happy 2013. I will now indulge on champagne and be merry, I hope you do the same. Have a good one everyone, love, Yvette

Even if it’s not snowing, I’m still in for a white Xmas. Aren’t you? Recipes in Libelle, issue 52. You can find the Banoffee recipe here and the recipe for the Merengue-almond Swiss roll here. Photography: Eric van Lokven, Prop styling Jet Krings & it was all baked by the wonderful Yvonne Jimmink. MERRY CHRISTMAS…