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…

At our restaurant Aan de Amstel we offer a delicious Xmas menu on boxing day, Dec 26th. We still have a seat or two left for those who haven’t decided yet what to do that day. So hurry and make your reservations now: call us at +3120 608 00 77. Here’s the menu: (Sorry it’s…

Yes, here it is: my final Xmas menu for Libelle #51. I personally think this is the most beautiful one of all the Christmas stories we did this season. The recipes are all in the magazine, issue 51. But you can find the recipe for the Chocolate Praliné pie online here! Many Many Thanks to…

My dear friends Jessica Lek and Lotte Smit opened a breakfast and lunch restaurant in the North of Amsterdam. It’s not only really a lovely restaurant, it’s also a brilliant idea, because they use the already existing restaurant Café Modern as their work space. So clever. They asked me to do the artwork for it,…

A great dish to fix for a big buffet table: Pie! You can make them from left overs or from scratch. You can make them as fancy as you’d like to: decorate them with stars or lattice, it’s up to you. Easy to prepare ahead and to bring along for New Years Eve, for example….

Another Xmas menu here! This one is super simple & super fast. For those who have no time to cook or no confidence in cooking a whole Christmas menu, I can assure you that these ideas will work! all recipes in this weeks Libelle #50 now. The magazine will be available in the stores until…

I’m in the Christmas mood now. This week I will pack my blog with Christmas stories. This one on how-to-make-pretty-cookies is to be found in Libelle 50. Many thanks to Barbara Groen for prop styling, Yvonne Jimmink, for food styling and Jan Luijk for photography.  

There we go: Christmas prepping is kicking in. To start this festive season off I’ve put a Xmas cookbook together in this weeks Libelle issue #49. With many, many -easy-to-prep-ahead recipes, like on some of the pics shown below. You can find three of the recipes online here, here and here. Or by clicking on…

For Libelle 48 we did a fabulous story on ‘Sinterklaas-treats’. Sinterklaas is a traditional Dutch feast, it’s a bit like Christmas and we Dutch people celebrate it on the 5th of December. The recipe for Sintermuffins is to found online here.  The Libelle team did a great job with the design of the story I…

For last week’s Libelle #46 we did a story on meatballs, all different kinds and variations. The recipe for Italian meatballs as featured in the picture below is to be found here (in Dutch). A huge thanks to Barbara Groen for the lovely prop styling, to Yvonne Jimmink, for cooking it so perfectly and to…

Tomorrow cookbook week will start in Holland. We call it Kookboeken 7 Daagse here. Is a special week of the year when book stores give cookbooks extra special attention. Many authors will do book signings and presentations throughout Holland. To celebrate this the CPNB and Kookboek van het Jaar have made a beautiful magazine about…

There she is, a little Mini Me. Home Made Mini is a small ‘best of‘ book: best of Winter and Summer. For a very small price. We made it to celebrate the fact that my publishing house Fontaine Uitgevers reached the respectable age of 10 years! Hip! Hip! I hope you’re happy with it, to…

Wishing the USA good luck today. Hope you’re going out to vote! This week of course a USA special for Libelle #L45. The recipe for the beefburger and the banana-cinnamon milkshake is to be found here. Photography by Eric van Lokven, propstyling: Jet Krings & food styling: Jessica Lek.

In Libelle #42 we did a story on veg. I love veggies, if I didn’t like meat so much I could become a vegetarian. That’s why this story was really an easy one for me. You can find the recipe for the stuffed pumpkins here (recipe in Dutch). Photography by Eric van Lokven, propstyling was…

Past summer Gall & Gall liquor stores made a new little summer BBQ book. I illustrated some pages for it too.

Home Made has been translated in to French! Of course I knew this a while ago, because I had to redo all the drawings in French. But now that I have it in my hands, I’m thrilled to bits. If you want to get your hands on a copy in French look here.

Well it’s no news of course , but I made some pretty good recipes with this classic combo. I cooked, styled and illustrated it all for this weeks Libelle #44.

I will post a story on my adventures in New York soon, but first I need to share this with you: Yesterday October 23rd was the nomination show for the Dutch Cookbook of the Year 2012 awards. I had the honor of presenting it at the wonderful Radio Royaal restaurant in Eindhoven. I had many…

The lovely and very gifted Kristina Gill (do check out her website) asked me once again to cook something up for her In The Kitchen With project over at Design Sponge. Of course I was more than happy to bake her something decadent and luxurious, especially for the weekend. My illustrated recipe is to be…

For Libelle #40 I did a story on white rice and the different things you can do with it. It worked out really well I think. You can find some of the recipes online here and here. Thank you Jeroen v/d Spek for the beautiful photography, Annemieke Paarlberg for prop styling and my dear friend…

To support Pink Ribbon everyone in Holland working for magazines put a special magazine together called: AANDACHT. This is a one-issue-only magazine, so if you buy one, all profits go directly to breast cancer research. This was my illustrated recipe for the mag.

For the launch of my new book Home Made WINTER in English I will be in New York this coming October! I’m very excited to announce the coming events: GREENLIGHT BOOKSTORE On October 11th I will give a cooking demonstration at the Greenlight Bookstore, Fort Greene, Brooklyn again. This time I will make cheese, all…

I was very happy about the way Libelle #38 turned out! Beautiful little desserts: they’re so easy to make and they only cost a penny! More recipes in the magazine right now. Photography: Jeroen v/d Spek, prop styling: Annemieke Paarlberg and Jessica Lek cooked it all.

Libelle #37 shows the winners of the Libelle Apple Pie Competition. Many readers sent me their best recipe for Apple pie. We had a lot of testing going on here in my kitchen! I promised to illustrate the winner. So here it is! Hava sent me a recipe for a super little apple cake. The…

I promised you more lovely stories that came out during my absence. How about this one? My favourite recipes with purslane for Libelle #36. Again a huge thanks to Barbara Groen for prop styling, to Yvonne Jimmink, for cooking it perfectly and to photographer Jan Luyk. pssst: the chickpea & purslane salad recipe is to…

Libelle issue 35 (the one from last week) featured one of my favourite stories up till now. Doesn’t it look fabulous? The recipe for the the Home Made Coffee Liqueur can be found online here. (In Dutch) A huge thanks to Barbara Groen, prop styling, Yvonne Jimmink, the food stylist and photographer Jan Luyk.

Back from holidays I am. But in my absence a new issue of Libelle Magazine came out every week. I will show some of them to you these coming days as I was quite proud of  how the food stories turned out. The first one is this PARIS (Libelle 34) story. Barbara Groen styled it…

In this week’s Libelle (Issue #31) I will give you recipes for 30 different nibbles and bites. Just to help you on your way organising  a summer evening on your rooftop terrace with friends. Have fun guys!

Again Delicious Magazine has succeeded in making my Summer / ZOMER book look so so good. I’m really proud that they put me in their beautiful magazine again. The fun thing is that my cousin Joris (whom I have the restaurant with) is in the same issue too. With a fun story on barbecuing,  so…

In Libelle issue #29 I will open my own beachclub! Just for one week you can drop by for all kinds of goodies….from drinks to fish and I’ve arranged a whole table filled with yummy desserts. Why don’t you go out and get yourself a copy, it’s a huge menu filled with summer food, for…

As you know, I contribute to the Dutch RED Magazine every month. With a recipe, a drawing and a little story. Tomorrow a new issue will be out in the stores, but I never posted the past ones. So here are two of them. And don’t forget to look here too, for my weekly recipe…

The wonderful PARK magazine asked me about one of the favourite dishes I had ever eaten and if I could then reproduce the recipe. I had to think for a minute, but came up with the ‘Chevice of raw shrimp’ I had as a starter in Le Chateaubriand in Paris. I found out how simple…

For Libelle issue 26 we did a really nice shoot on dips and spreads for the summer! I’m so happy with it. Photography Jeroen v/d Spek, Prop Styling: Annemieke Paarlberg and Food Styling: Jaqueline Pietrowki

This week I will show you how to cook a whole fish on the BBQ. There’s a recipe to be found online here, but the whole story is to be found in Libelle #24. Shot bij Jan Luijk, propstyling: Barbara Groen & food styling Yvonne Jimmink

My dear friends just gave birth to their second son called ‘Frithjof’. The name is an old family name and Norwegian for ‘he who disturbs the peace‘. The delivery was somewhat turbulent, but everyone is really ok now and is Frithjof beautiful baby!

Here it is, my first appearance as culinary editor for Libelle magazine! I’m extremely proud to have my own approx 5 pages a week in the biggest woman’s weekly of Holland. I’ve already worked hard, we ‘magazine people’ work a couple of months ahead of course. So far it has been sheer pleasure, so I…

Yesterday the wonderful Jonah Freud (owner of  de kookboekhandel / ‘the cookbook shop’ in Amsterdam) invited me to a culinary evening in the smallest theatre of Amsterdam: the Torpedo Theatre. The evening was fully booked, many people came which was great. Jonah asked me all kinds of questions, we both made recipes from the book…

Residence magazine asked me to make a paper cut with the new Farrow & Ball colour book for outdoor paint. So I did and my husband Oof Verschuren took the picture.

Yesterday we sent the invitations out for my book launch for the press in two weeks time. So it’s official now and I even received a copy of the very first book! The printer had sent one over to me in advance. I’m more than thrilled with it, I can’t wait to show it to…

So proud I am…..

For over a year or so I’ve posted a new recipe for the weekend at RED’s Dutch website every Friday. I always leave a little drawing with every recipe, so I decided to put some of them together to form a huuuge patchwork. I could go on forever, as I made so many of them….