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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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Farm fresh veggies

By On November 9, 2010 · 1 Comment

It’s amazing how used we get to unripe, not so fresh vegetables. Especially during the ‘off-season’ vegetables just aren’t that great. And the old-fashioned produce stores seem to have disappeared.

Last summer, in Colorado, I went to a farmer’s market. Everything was fresh and wonderful. It was a Sunday morning and I couldn’t [...]

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Pumpkin

By On April 16, 2010 · 15 Comments

Almost everything in the pumpkin and squash family in Holland is called pumpkin. The only exception I know of is zucchini. So tonight we ate pumpkin, also known as butternut squash.

Some types of ‘pumpkin’  are hard to come by in Holland. Spaghetti squash, for instance, is something I’ve never ever seen in a [...]

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