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…