Last minute Christmas special in between canceled flights: A perfect Christmas recipe for fush lovers… Marinated monk fish wrapped in prosciutto on a bed of red wine risotto.
Bon appetit et Joyeux Noel!
It’s raining again… Instead of biking in the dunes as I had planned, I’m squatting the couch under a thick plaid, enjoying my 4th cup of fuming mint tea while dreaming of the sun of my provence.
No way I’m going to let this rotten weather get on my mood today! So here’s a simple fish dish [...]
While my dutchie is a cycling freak and could spend hours looking and shopping for fancy expensive cycling gear, I, as a lazy gourmande, have something for fancy kitchen equipment… six pit stoves, professional gas-ovens, or just the kitchen aid department at my favourite cook shop make my eyes shine with envy. [...]
Today is the latest “Blog appetit” contest in the french culinary blogweb. This edition’s ingredients will probably seem less startling than the strawberries and asperges from the last edition (I had a lot of fun with them though), but they are worth a detour: Our stars of this month are sardines and [...]
Last week, I was almost finished with the 3rd opus of my raw fish special… I was talking about raw fish of course, but I also allowed myself in alyric prose about my addiction to the covered market “Les Halles” in my home town and all its marvels. I was about to press the “post [...]
As promised in my previous post, here is my second of this summer “raw fish” special coming right out of the kitchen…
Fresh cod fish in passion fruit marinade
2 pers. prep: 10 min
Ingredients:
300g fresh cod fish filet
1/2 lemon
1 Tsp. olive oil [...]
Have you ever had the impression of working in a sauna or should I say in hell? Well, today I did… we have no airco at work and the sunscreen of my office just broke down: the thermometer often exceded the 31 C inside today! All that to say, that when I came home, I [...]
Unfortunately, as I speak, I’m not on a cruise somewhere around the strait of Gibraltar. This post is not about geography, but once again about food! As if you had still any doubts about that. More precisely, it is about my latest culinary experiment: let me explain….
A few weeks ago, I discovered a [...]
Smoked mackerel is one of the food delicacies in holland. Often, on “fish days” at our cantine (wednesday) I treat myself with a Mackerel broodje*… The last time I was at the market, I realised that I had never tried cooking fresh mackerel. I decided to give it a try. I chose a couple of [...]
Welcome in my new kitchen,
Hope you'll like it!Bon appetit!
La gourmande.
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