sinaasappel chocolade pasta

English version of the recipe (orange-chocolate paste) 

- cut 350 gr. dark chocolate in fine pieces (I use the chocolate from "Vivani"*, this one has 92% cacao and is sweetened with coconut blossom-sugar) and melt it au bain marie.
- grind the skin from one orange.
- cook 250 ml rice-milk* (or coconut-almond or hazelnut milk) together with the orange grind just to the cooking point.
- add the milk to the chocolate and stir to a smooth mixture.
- press the juice out of the orange and add 50 ml juice to the chocolate.
- pour the chocolate in a clean glass jar and let cool down. Keep in the fridge. You can keep the paste for about a week, but here it was almost gone immediately ;-)
- nice on bread, waffles, pancakes or just eat in out of the jar.

*available at organic food shop.

just eat it

Heel soms blog ik over dingen die me raken in de voedsel industrie, zoals een stukje over e-nummers bijvoorbeeld. Vorige week zag ik deze documentaire "Just eat it". Veel van wat er in deze documentaire gezegd werd, wist ik wel, maar de feiten en de beelden vond ik toch shockerend en indrukwekkend. Waar het in deze film over gaat is dat veel van ons geproduceerde voedsel niet in onze maag terecht komt, maar direct bij het afval. Of omdat het over de datum is of omdat het niet eens in de winkel terecht komt. Supermarkten blijken zulke strenge eisen te stellen aan de vorm en kleur, dat veel groenten en fruit de schappen niet halen.
De Canadese filmmakers Jen Rustemeyer en Grant Baldwin stellen zichzelf de uitdaging om een half jaar te eten van wat ze vinden in de containers van supermarkten. Grant raakt zo verslaafd aan het vinden van voedsel dat het tot heel andere probleem leidt…. Als het je lukt deze documentaire nog te gaan zien, doe dat! Ik heb hem nog terug kunnen vinden bij "uitzending gemist". Ik vind het shockerend om te zien wat we weg gooien, hoe we met voedsel omgaan. Ikzelf probeer geen voedsel weg te gooien, ik kook precies wat we nodig hebben. Heel soms schimmelt een sneedje brood, dat dan aan de vogels wordt gegeven. Misschien helpt dit, hou ik mezelf voor. Maar het probleem begint al veel eerder in het proces. Met alle mooie groenten die we willen, en niet de scheve bananen of de kromme komkommers…

Sometimes I blog about things that get to me in our food-industry, like a little piece about e-numbers in our food. Last week I watched the documentary "Just eat it". A lot of things that were told in this documentary I already knew, but the facts and the images they showed I found shocking and impressive. This film is about that a lot of our produced food does not find its way to our stomach, but goes straight to the trash. Because it has past its date or because it never finds his way to our stores. Super markets have such strict rules about the shape and color that a lot of our vegetables and fruit never make it to the stores. 
The Canadian film makers Jen Rustemeyer and Grant Baldwin challenge themselves to eat the food they find in the containers of supermarkets for 6 months. Grant gets addicted to finding food that this leads to whole different problems… If you can find this film in your country, go get it and watch it! I found it very shocking to see what we trow away, how we deal with our food. I try not to waste food, I cook the amount of food we eat. Sometimes a piece of bread gets mould, which I feed to the birds. Maybe this helps, I tell myself. But the problem starts a lot earlier in the process. With all the beautiful looking vegetables we want and not the crooked bananas or bent cucumbers…

citaat 52

rijst met savooie kool

English version of the recipe (rice with savoy cabbage)

- cook 150 gr. (unpolished/brown) rice according to the directions on the package.
- clean half a savoy cabbage and cut in small pieces.
- cook ready in 15 minutes and drain off.
- cut an union in small pieces and fruit in some olive oil.
- clean one big carrot and cut in small pieces and fruit 5 minutes with the union.
- add the cabbage and add salt and pepper to taste.
- add one teaspoon curry powder.
- add 200 ml vegetable cream* (for example rice-cream).
- stir very well and add some more curry powder if you like.
- serve with the rice.

*available at organic food shop.

citaat 51

pompoen koeken

English version of the recipe (pumpkin cookies, for about 12 big cookies)

- clean a butternut squash, cut into small pieces and cook ready in 10 minutes, drain off and mash with a fork.
- melt 80 gr. coconut-oil* and add together with 100 gr. honey to the mashed butternut squash.
- add 2 eggs and mix very well.
- mix in a bowl 30 gr. bearded wheat*, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons wine-stone baking powder*, 2 tablespoons cinnamon, 1 teaspoon ground ginger.
- add bit by bit to the butternut-egg-mix and mix it together.
- preheat the oven at 180C degrees.
- make little piles with two spoons and put them on a baking try covered with bakery paper.
- bake ready in about 15 minutes.
- nice with some coconut-creme* with a sniff of vanilla or with sugar free chocolate paste*.

*available at organic food shop.

citaat 50 (for my mom)

Vandaag is het zeven jaar geleden dat mijn moeder overleed. Daarom speciaal voor haar vandaag een grappige Martini quote, omdat ze die zo lekker vond ;-) En ik denk dat ze deze quote wel leuk gevonden zou hebben.

Today it's been seven years since my mother past away. So especially for her today a funny Martini quote, because she liked them ;-) And I think she would have liked this quote.

hartige taart

English version for the recipe (Hearty pie)

-preheat the oven at 200C Degrees.
-take 5 filo dough* strips and place them on a greased baking try. Grease every strip of the dough with some oil before you put the next strip on it.
-put in the oven for 15 minutes.
-peel 500 gr. sweet potatoes, cut them in pieces and cook them together with a clove of garlic ready in about 10 minutes.
-drain of and mash the potatoes, at salt and pepper to taste.
-heat some oil in a pan and fry two red unions and another clove of garlic.
-cut a green pepper into small pieces and fry with the unions.
-spread the mashed potatoes over the dough, spread the union-pepper mix over the potatoes.
-cut 400 gr. little tomatoes (red, yellow, green) in pieces and spread on top of the pie.
-sprinkle with salt, pepper and dried thyme.
-if you want you can add some goat cheese on top.
-put in the oven again and bake ready in about 15 minutes. Nice with a green salad.

*I buy the filo dough in a turkish or indonesian shop, there are no e-numbers or what so ever in the dough.

citaat 49 (happy new year!)

een kleine foto collage

Zo vlak voor het einde van het jaar dacht ik, ik plaats nog eens een paar foto's van gerechten die ik uitprobeerde voor dit blog en er receptjes van tekende. Wat opvalt is dat ik alleen foto's gemaakt heb van de desserts en koekjes, waarschijnlijk omdat ik niet goed kan fotograferen en ik dacht: dit lukt me nog wel! Waarom zou ik anders overal tekeningen van maken? ;-) Het is ook een klein bewijs dat ik de recepten ook echt maak voordat ik ze hier plaats. En aangezien het kerstmis is waar het toch ook een heel klein beetje om lekker eten draait, past deze collage wel. Ik wens jullie allemaal een fijne kerst en een goede laatste week van 2014!

Just before the end of the year I thought I would place some picture's of de dishes I made for this blog and where I drew the recipes of. I noticed that I only took pictures from the desserts and cookies, probably because I'm not a very good photographer and I thought: this I can manage! What else would I draw for? ;-) It is also a little proof that I do make the recipes before I place them here. And because it is christmas where it is also a little bit about nice food, this collage fits in. I wish you all a very nice christmas and a good last week of 2014!

citaat 48 (merry christmas!)

trifle

English version of the recipe (trifle) for two.

- put one can of coconut milk* in the fridge over night. Scoop the hard coconut part out of the can and mix with two tablespoons cacao powder. If necessary add some of the left over coconut water to make the mix a little bit smoother.
- crumble 75 gr. (homemade) sugar free cookies* in a food processor or crumble them in a tea towel using a rolling-pin ;-) (tip: use cookies with chocolate bits).
- cut one banana into slices.
- use a glass jar for 500 ml* and cover the bottom with sugar free apricot jam*.
- make a layer with the crumbled cookies, on top of that slices banana and then a layer with chocolate-coconut creme.
- make more layers till the jar is full and cover with some chocolate or coconut grinds.
- you can eat this portion with two persons.
*You can also use two smaller jars or double the quantity for two big jars.

*available at organic food shop.

citaat 47 (fijne Sinterklaas iedereen!)

Sorry, today a quote for the dutch readers/followers of this blog because we celebrate "Sinterklaas".

sesam reepjes

English version of the recipe (bars of sesame)

- preheat the oven at 180C degrees.
- grate 150 gr. of sesame seeds in a frying pan without oil.
- mix the seeds in a bowl with 2 tablespoons of melted coconut oil*, 2 tablespoons of agave sirup*, 1 teaspoon cinnamon and a sniff of salt.
- spread the mix on a baking try covered with bakery paper. Flatten the mix wits a spoon.
- bake ready in about 10 minutes, be careful that the seeds do not burn!
- let cool off for about halve an hour and cut into bars or break into pieces.

*available at organic food shop.