rode gebakken aardappeltjes

English version of the recipe (red baked potatoes):
For 2 persons:

- cook 1 kilogram (fingerling or new) potatoes, pour and cool off and cut them in slices.
- fry the slices in 6 tablespoons of olive-oil and bake them in 8 minutes.
- cut two unions and one clove of garlic in small pieces and add to the potatoes.
- cut 8 dried tomatoes (without oil!) in small slices and add together with 60 gr. of pine tree kernels.
- fry everything for another 4 minutes.
- add 68 gr. of tomatoe puree and 2 teaspoons of agave-syrop*.
- stirr very good so the puree gets spread well. 
-add salt and pepper to taste.

nice with a green salad.
*available at organic food shop.

citaat 10

snelle spaghetti

English version of the recipe (quick spaghetti):
For 2 persons:

- cook 200/250 gr. spaghetti in salted water.
- fry two cloves of garlic (garlicpress) in olive oil for 5 minutes without turning them brown.
- add 400 gr. tomatoes (green, red, yellow, everything goes!)
- fry the tomatoes about two minutes, add salt and pepper and deglaze with 1-2 teaspoon of balsamic vinegar.- at last add 75 gr. rucola salad.
- pour off the spaghetti and add to the tomato-salad mixture.
- stirr everything and your done!

lovechock

Door de drukke december maand is mijn post over favouriten van die maand erbij ingeschoten, dus snel inhalen! Het gaat over chocolade (ik ben geen chocoholic, maar soms vind ik het wel lekker) en dan special over Lovechock: een chocolade die bestaat uit puur cacao, zonder suiker en melk. Hij wordt gezoet met kokos en is verkrijgbaar in meerdere smaken. De chocolade wordt gemaakt van "raw chocolate": Normaal gesproken wordt cacao bij zeer hoge temperaturen gebrand en gemalen. Helaas gaat hierdoor veel van de kracht van de cacao verloren. Raw chocolate (rauwe chocolade) is anders: De rauwe cacao bonen worden niet gebrand. Hierdoor blijven veel mooie stofjes bewaard. Dit zijn met name de van nature aanwezige antioxidanten (flavonoïden) en de ‘liefdesstofjes’.
Bij Lovechock blijft gedurende de gehele productie, van boon tot aan het eindproduct, de temperatuur onder 49ºC. 

De chocolade smaakt naar een hele goede pure reep, dus als je daar van houdt zeker proberen! Wil je meer weten over raw chocolate en super foods, klik dan hier.

Because of the very busy month decemer my post about a favorite thing just slipped away, so I post it now. It's about chocolate (I'm not a chocoholic, but sometimes I like a small piece) and especially about Lovechock: it's a chocolate which is made of pure cacoa, without sugar or milk. It's sweeten with coconut and you can buy it in multiple tastes. The chocolate is made of "raw chocolate": In the regular chocolate production process, the cacao beans are roasted and ground at very high temperatures whereby much of the cacao's beneficial qualities are destroyed. But raw chocolate is differrent: The raw cacao beans are not roasted but cold ground, many of the beautiful cacao substances remain intact, namely antioxidants (flavonoids) and "love chemicals".
In the Lovechock process, from the cacao bean through to the end product, the temperature is kept below 49ºC.

The chocolate taste like a very good pure bar, so if you're into that you should defenitly taste it! If you want to know more about raw chocolate or super foods, click here.

bananen-choco cake

English version of the recipe (banana-choco-cake):

- preheat the oven at 175C degrees.
- mix 2 banana's with 250 gr. vegetable margarine*.
- add 500 gr. of brown wheatmeal, 4 tablespoons soya flour, 3 teaspoon wine-stone baking powder*, one sniff of salt.
- mix with 290 ml rice-milk*.
- oil the cake tin and cover with wheatmeal and add HALVE the dough.
- add 5 tablespoons of cacoa powder to the rest of the dough and add also to the cake tin.- ready in about 60 minutes.

*available at organic food shop.

gele paprika soep

English version of the recipe (yellow pepper soup):

- grill 4 yellow peppers in the oven on 200 C degrees for 30 minutes.
- put the peppers in a kettle and let them rest for 20 minutes.
- cut two shallot and one clove of garlic in small pieces and fry in olive oil.
- add one teaspoon of cummin.
- cut the peppers in small slices and add to the shallots and garlic.
- add 600 ml water and 3 teaspoons of yeast-free stock*.
- boil for 10 minutes.
- puree with a food processor.- stir and add the pepper and salt to taste.
*available at organic food shop.

citaat 9

JustEat foodblogs

Dit weekend kreeg ik het leuke bericht van JustEat dat mijn blog in de top 50 staat van beste foodblogs van 2012! Dit vind ik extra leuk omdat dit blog pas sinds 3 maanden bestaat en binnen komt op plek 35, een hele leuke stimulans en helemaal zo vlak voor kerst. De lijst kun je HIER bekijken.

This weekend I received the nice message that my blog is in the top 50 of best foodblogs of 2012 of JustEat! This is surprising because this blog only exist since 3 months and enters the list at number 35. A very nice christmas surprise and stimulation. You can see the whole list HERE.

citaat 8

chocolade!

Ik heb vandaag voor de eerste keer geprobeerd mijn eigen suiker-en zuivelvrije chocolade te maken en ik ben heel erg blij met het resultaat! Het is heel makkelijk en het smaakt ook nog eens super lekker. Het recept is alleen een beetje "op gevoel" en een beetje afhankelijk van hoeveel je wilt maken of hoe sterk je de chocolade wilt hebben. Dus:
smelt de kokosnootolie au bain marie ( ik heb ongeveer 3 tot 4 grote EL gebruikt). Als het gesmolten is meng er (raw) cacao poeder door: doe dit naar eigen smaak/sterkte. Zoet het daarna met bijvoorbeeld agavesiroop, ook naar eigen smaak. Verdeel het mengsel daarna over siliconen ijsblokjes vormpjes, daar kun je ze later makkelijk uit drukken. Vul de chocolade met dingen die je lekker vind zoals rozijnen, cranberries of noten. Laat zeker 3 uur hard worden in de koelkast. Geniet ervan!

For the first time I tried to make my own sugar-and milk-free chocolate and I'm very happy with the result! It's very easy to do and it taste delicious. The recipe depends a bit how you like it or how much chocolate you want to make, so:
melt coconutoil in a bain-marie (a double boiler), I used about 3 to 4 tablespoons. If the coconutoil is melted add (raw) cocoa to it and agave-syrup to sweeten it up. Both things depend how strong or how sweet you want it to be... I used silicon ice-cupe forms for the chocolate, so you get nice, small pieces and it's easy to get the chocolate out of. You can fill the chocolate with all kinds of stuff you like: raisins, cranberries or nuts. Put the chocolate at least 3 hours in the refrigerator. Enjoy!

bladerdeeg pizza / they draw and cook

For the english version of the recipe please check out they draw and cook. They placed this recipe of mine as well!

citaat 7

kruidkoek

English version of the recipe :
(spiced cake):

- preheat the oven at 175C degrees.
- melt 25 gr. vegetable margarine* and add a sniff of salt, 5 tablespoons of concentrade appeljuice* and the shred of one lemon.
- whip one egg to it.
- add 100 gr. wheat flower, 100 gr. brown wheatmeal, 3 teaspoons wine-stone baking powder*, 2 teaspoons cinamon, 2 teaspoons cardemom, 2 teaspoons ground ginger, 1 teaspoon ground clove, 1 teaspoon nutmeg.
- add at the same time bit by bit 1,5 dl ricemilk.
- oil the cake tin and cover with wheatmeal and add the dough.
- ready in about 45 minutes.
*available at organic food shop.

pepernootjes

English version of the recipe :
(small spiced/gingerbread biscuit, in The Netherlands we eat them in the beginning of december when we celebrate St. Nicolas, not Santa Claus!)

- preheat the oven at 170C degrees.
- knead the following ingredients to a dough: 250 gr. wheat flower, 125 gr. vegetable margarine*, 200 gr. apple or rice-molasses*, 2 teaspoons cinamon, 2 teaspoons cardemom, 2 teaspoons ground ginger, 1 teaspoon ground clove, 1 teaspoon nutmeg.
- make little bals of the dough en put them on a baking try, covered with bakery paper.
- ready in about 12 minutes.
*available at organic food shop.