Posts by: Valerie
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Vegetable fries

By On November 23, 2010 · 1 Comment

How do you test out brand new knives?
By cutting, obviously.

How do you get people to eat anything?
Fry it!

An apparently known Italian saying is ‘Fritta è buona anche una ciabatta’, Laurens’ grandma used to tell him that. It means ‘even a (house)slipper is [...]

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Banana squash (bread) cake

By On November 22, 2010 · 2 Comments

With the ginormous banana squash in Hand I had to figure out what exactly to use it for. Surely, we eat squash, but this was enough for about a week. So I needed to change things up.

Looking online I found tons of pumpkin bread, squash bread or zucchini cake recipes. I [...]

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Banana squash

By On November 16, 2010 · 1 Comment

The other week, when I went to the farm a couple of minutes form my house to buy my produce, they had some really big veggies laying around. They were advertized as ‘Roemeense courgettes” (Romanian zucchini) and I had no idea what they were. They looked like a cross between [...]

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Cheese and scallion soufflé

By On November 16, 2010 · 1 Comment

Last Saturday L and I went into Duikelman to buy me a set of knives. Actually, to buy me 1 chef’s knife, which was my birthday present, however we ended up with a set of 3 knives. L is wonderful that way. He saw the glimmer in my eyes and me [...]

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Taco pie

By On November 14, 2010 · 1 Comment

What to do when you have the ingredients for taco’s, but the weather is awful? Instead of taco’s, you make a taco pie!

This NaBloPoMo thing isn’t working out for me very well. Now it’s even been 2 days of no posting. It’s really not that I don’t want to. Life has [...]

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