Posts by: Valerie

Grilled lettuce

By On June 9, 2010 · 3 Comments

Our office flooded today! Or well, the building in which our office resides on the 2nd floor flooded today. Saying ‘our office’ adds a nice dramatic touch, which is always a good thing. Right?

There was a monsoon going on in Amsterdam. Or well, technically it might not have been a monsoon [...]

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Rendering lard

By On June 6, 2010 · 36 Comments

I’ve stubmled upon a couple of blog posts and recipes that asked for lard. Now I know that in the US you can actually buy buckets of lard in the grocery stores. In Holland you don’t find that. I’m pretty sure you can ask a butcher for some rendered lard, but I [...]

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Ice cream (made by me!)

By On June 3, 2010 · 2 Comments

Yay, for summer! Yay for sunshine, for having the doors and windows wide open. For having lunch outside in the sun. For having salads for dinner. Yay for summer!

And yay for ice cream! Ice cream is awesome. I love the stuff!

And even better than regular old store bough ice cream, is home made [...]

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Tagliatelle with gorgonzola cream sauce

By On June 1, 2010 · 23 Comments

I  have talked about my home-made pasta a couple of times. About how much I love it and how much better it is than store bought pasta. I might’ve even mentioned that since starting to make my own pasta, I refuse to buy the soft refrigerator pasta anymore. The refrigerator pasta is just [...]

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Baking supplies

By On May 31, 2010 · 33 Comments

The Pioneer Woman makes me jealous. Not when she posts pictures of scary snakes that sit in her yard. I can do without that nooo problem. I get very very very jealous when I see her kitchen though. She has a ‘baking station’ with ‘flour/sugar drawers’. Seriously, if I didn’t have L, she wasn’t [...]

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