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Day 2 of my internship at NOPI

On day two of my internship at NOPI I meet sous-chef Paula and she assigns me to the pastry chef, an Italian guy from Bologna named Andrea. At 8:00 we start with the breakfast service and he shows me how to make and plate the black rice dish with mango and banana. After he showed…

recipes

Day 1 of my internship at NOPI

I was kind of nervous as I left my hotel for day one of my internship at NOPI. The head chef had given me a choice between the morning and evening shift. Because I wanted to have dinner with friends in the evening I chose the morning shift. That meant I had to get up…

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My internship at Ottolenghi in London

My internship at Ottolenghi in London? Yes! I really did it. You guys know I love the Ottolenghi cuisine and I cook a lot of his dishes at home. I also love to go to London and eat at his restaurants with friends. I think it was about one year ago I started thinking about…

Lunch

Green Gazpacho

It is unbelievably hot this summer in the Netherlands and I wouldn’t be surprised if these scorching temperatures reach record-breaking heights. However, considering the summer can be quite rubbish in The Netherlands I’m glad that it’s finally hot enough to complain about how hot it is :-). These kinds of temperatures certainly can take a…

Fish

Ottolenghi’s Cod Cakes in Tomato Sauce

These cod cakes in tomato sauce from the Ottolenghi cookbook ‘Jerusalem’are one of the many recipes I cooked to convince some of my hardcore carnivore friends that a meal with fish can be as delicious and sometimes even more delicious than the red meat option. I have some friends who believe that a dinner is…

Chicken

Moroccan Chicken Tagine

Sometimes I get the question if I have a good recipe for Moroccan tagine. But what do we mean by tagine, the pot or the dish? I usually use the word when I talk about the pot. Nowadays the word tagine is used for both the terracotta conical pot as well as the food that’s…

Breakfast

Baghrir (1000 holes crêpes)

I read a post on Instagram of someone asking to share a vivid childhood memory. It got me thinking about my own childhood. How the world feels and looks different when you are a child. The park in your neighborhood feels like a never-ending forest, playgrounds are immense and every day is a new adventure….

Chicken

Spicy chicken drumsticks with p’titim salad

Have you ever seen the movie ‘The Pineapple Express’ where Seth Rogen is driving in his car and says: ‘Couscous: the food so nice they named it twice’. Being a Berber Moroccan myself who is brought up eating couscous like the Italians eat pasta I can only agree with Seth on this. Couscous is delicious,…

Lunch

Shallot tarte tatin

Oh là là ! Don’t you just love a good tarte tatin. The famous tarte tatin is definitely and indisputably one of France’s most beloved and cherished tarts. There are two things I always eat when visiting France: crêpes with sugar and lemon and tarte tatin. Especially the latter as it’s both one of my…