Isabella Rozendaal

2010-02-23T10:43:00.002+01:00

Dear followers,

I am currently working on a newer, bigger, better, more awesome website which will soon be online. This is why I haven't posted anything here in a while: all new posts are going directly to the new website. As soon as this is up, I'll let you know through an update here!

Thanks for your patience,

Isabella

2010-01-20T01:19:00.008+01:00

How to make a 'snertkroket', a concept combining the two Dutch classics, pea soup and croquettes. It was a bold experiment we embarked on...

Cut your vegetables while peas and pork simmer, just the basic, classic Dutch recipe will do just fine. After 45 minutes, add vegetables and boil for another half hour.

Have a nice bowl of snert with smoked sausage, rustic bread and maybe some bacon.

Take your leftover soup and boil it down until it's very thick. Let that cool off, maybe keep it in the fridge overnight. It will firm up even more. Add some breadcrumbs until the mash has a workable consistency.

Form your croquettes...

...roll them in breadcrumbs (it helps if you use your blender or food processer to make the crumbs really fine, Japanese panko bread crumbs work very well that way), and freeze them for about ten minutes...

...then dip them in egg and, once again, in bread crumbs...

...freeze them for another bit, just to make sure they won't fall apart during cooking.

Deep fry until golden brown. Enjoy!

Beet carrot ginger juice, freshly squeezed...

...makes for a very sexy Julia.

Oat meal variations: cinnamon oat meal with fresh orange segments.

Mixed Moroccan fish grill.

Green salad with sweet potatoes, grilled mushrooms and lots of fresh herbs.

Merry no more Christmas.

Excellent Italian dinner at Cinema Paradiso in Amsterdam

Julia made a pretty perfect potato gratin.

2010's first day of work had to be celebrated with bahn mi: Vietnamese sandwiches. French baguette with mayo, homemade burgers (flavored with lime rind and fish sauce), salad greens, vegetables pickled in rice vinegar, grilled shiitake, nuoc cham sauce and lots of mint and cilantro, too good...

Cinnamon oatmeal with apple and fruit syrup.

2010-01-02T01:13:00.016+01:00

Happy 2010!

A little fender bender to ring in the new decade, I suck at backing out of small spaces

Excellent new year's eve thanks to Adolf Butler...

...and Vanderbuyst's hardrock

A light post christmas Asian menu: homemade red miso soup with silken tofu...

...black bean sauce deviled quail eggs with green onion and toasted sesame...

...and seaweed salad with lemon miso dressing topped with this tuna and salmon, and ginger garlic tiger prawns. The fish was marinated in a soy sesame dressing, quickly pan seared, rubbed in crushed, toasted sesame and sliced.

Christmas friends

I went on another hunt this week. This time it was boar hunting in Germany, a very different type of hunt. It was just me and the hunter, sitting up in a tree stand for five hours straight, staring into pitch black forest lit by nothing but the full moon that peeked through the clouds every now and then. We didn't see a thing move that night, it was utterly exhausting. Afterwards, I got to sleep on this couch for just a few hours, as we went for another round before sunrise.

How to catch a hare

For Christmas dinner I took the hare I got on this season's first hunt, hacked it into pieces, and marinated it in buttermilk, red wine and pepper for two days.

After marinating, I floured the pieces. This is all meat from a single hare.

Brown the pieces of hare

Sweat some onions and add red wine

Add the browned hare, stock and some rosemary, bay leaf and peppercorns.

This was the meat after it had simmered all day

I reduced the juices, strained them, added them to a roux to form a nice, thick sauce. After picking all the meat from the bones, I added them to the sauce, and our christmas hare stew was done! It was excellent...

Awfully depressing christmas non-meat at the supermarket.

Salad with shrimp cooked in an orange juice vanilla sherry vinegar reduction, which we also added to the dressing.

2009-12-14T17:41:00.004+01:00

After going on a few hunts this past week as part of my new project, the generous hunters sent me on my way with a hare and a pheasant for this year's christmas dinner. They dressed the hare for me, so that went straight into the freezer, but this gorgeous bird was all in one piece. So I slapped on an apron, sharpened my knives and skinned my first pheasant. With a little help from Shooting Times, the job was a cinch. Check back after christmas for part II, the dinner.

2009-12-09T13:07:00.005+01:00

The Hunt - the making of

Hunting season just got started for me. I was invited to go along on a couple of hunts in Holland and Germany, we just had our first one in de Hoekse Waard. It was a perfect start to hopefully a great season.

My intern Julia, on her first and exellent day of shooting. I believe she was just as impressed with the hunt as I was. Although the many hares that got shot did haunt her in her dreams that night, she still wants to go back for more.

Here I am with ex police commissioner De Bruyne, getting ready to plow through this hare riddled field.

About halfway into the 10 km of farm land we worked our way through there were blisters that needed tending to.

When we got back to the estate, this little pony was roaming free around the driveway, welcoming us back.

Oddly, the pony seemed just as curious about the game as the dog. It even came to have a look as we dressed the hare, not in the least disturbed by the gore and bloodiness of the operation.

They were nice enough to dress one of the hares so I could take it home for Christmas dinner. It is currently sitting in my freezer.

I think I have never been so thoroughly hungry in my life as I was after this focused day in the cold autumn air. This was properly addressed with mashed potatoes, sauerkraut, smoked sausage, a giant ham and some red wine.

And tomorrow, we go for another round. This time, just across the border in Germany.

2009-12-02T17:19:00.006+01:00

Juicing green

Cumin cheese and banana orange soy milk shake

Maartje & Toet

Tofu burger

Mini quiches & chocolate covered shortbread, brought by my awesome intern Julia!

Burgermeester mini burger

Fish burger & sweet potato fries

This week's hunting class was about BIRDS

De Keuken van 1840, a nice restaurant in Amsterdam that serves old school Dutch food.

Butter bean & bacon puree with sambal badjak & toasted sesame

Adolf Butler show

Taco time @ The Taco Shop

2009-11-17T01:58:00.006+01:00

Croquette sandwich with mustard, the Dutch classic

Wyne made some excellent classic French onion soup

Volendam sunset

Volendam's best homemade soft ice

Grilled & garlicked ciabatta with hummus, spinach and well aged cumin cheese

Pumpkin soup again, 't is the season...

Hunting classes started, happy times!

Eggplant puree with grilled, salty haloumi cheese and a spicy jalapeno yogurt sauce

Green papaya and shrimp salad

Good times with Elza Jo at the Volkskrant Magazine anniversary party

Popping corn, the old school way

Simple jalapeno and cheese quesedilla with some roasted peppers

Mackerel sandwich

2009-10-28T16:07:00.003+01:00

Oatmeal obsession

Lately I've been having oatmeal every single breakfast. I never had it before and thought it'd taste lika a smelly grandma, but it doesn't. It's great. Everyone should have oatmeal for breakfast what with the days getting shorter and all. It's the perfect stuff of winter.

Oatmeal & granola with fruit syrup

Oatmeal & passion fruit with fruit syrup

2009-10-21T00:04:00.009+02:00

This was some of the Lithuanian snack food we had at the opening of the last exhibition, tasty stuff. A little nauseating too.

This November hunting classes are starting! Come May, I'll be licensed and ready to shoot my own meals. I'll be learning all about tracking, animal behavior, ecology, agriculture, gun safety and, ofcourse, murder.

Spinach mango juice

Nut raisin bread from all time favorite bakker Hartog with peanut butter and sambal badjak (Surinamese chili-garlic-onion paste)

Strawberry milkshake

Hartog's spelt bread with ancient cumin cheese, avocado, smashed toasted sesame and sambal

Breakfast at mom's: green juice

and boiled plantain with crunchy hemp seeds and cinnamon

Perfect autumn breakfast: oatmeal with fruit syrup, carrot-orange-ginger juice and green tea

Tea at Liza's: Jordino's chocolate and cookies from Sardinia

Homemade meringue, vanilla flavored

Mick Firestone, married life is treating him well

Preparation for autumn dinner. I've been travelling a lot lately, so I've barely had a chance to cook properly. I just spent two heavenly days in the kitchen so I could overstuff my loved ones.

The menu:

Sweet potato/pumpkin soup with jalapeno cilantro cream
Sweet cola spareribs... I've been craving ribs for days now those had to be made
Brazilian black bean stew with rice, farofa, garlic kale and mango salsa (all old favorites)
Sweet potato fries
Pumpkin pie

Take your ribs, and remove the membrane, so the spices can really get into the meat.

Rub them lovingly with these spices and let them marinate overnight

Until they look like this

Salted beef, get it at your local Surinamese store

For an authentic pot of beans: pig tails (not human fingers)

Pumpkin pie, ready to bake

Nicely browned pig tail. Not so good to eat, super fatty.

2009-09-28T00:56:00.005+02:00

Vilnius
Canteen Guide release + exhibition

I've been flying to Vilnius regularly over the past year, to photograph Kompotas, a project I'm working on with Indre Klimaite. We've been documenting the dying food culture of canteens in Lithuania. Last weekend, on the occasion of the Tenth Baltic Triennial of International Art, we created an exhibition with this work, and presented a 'Guide to Vilnius and Kaunas Canteens'. The party was held in a beautiful old canteen, and was accompanied by an enormous feast, created by the very canteens we had photographed. The food is made in complete seventies style, very, very oldschool, and very Lithuanian. From meat in gelatin and stuffed fish, to deviled eggs and meringue sandcakes. Lovely and delicious!

Making selections for the exhibition

Sweet 3D wood carved street art

This was supposed to be onion soup, it was more like onion mikshake.

Street food

Home food

It was mushroom season: Indre's parents had picked a huge, delicious stash in the forest.

Kompotas: the Lithuanian drink we've named the proect after. It's basically boiled dried fruit with some sugar, served cold. Delicious.

2009-09-20T01:48:00.010+02:00

N Y C 0 9 0 9 !

Buckwheat blueberry pancakes

WITH bacon

US breakfast

Escarole soup at Diner

With obligatory daily lunch cocktail

This was a Vietnamese week: lots of summer rolls

And lots of Vietnamese sandwiches

King size sake

La Palapa tilapia tacos

Gangster breakfast at Café Gitane, orangeblossom waffles

Watermelon juice, oatmeal & tea breakfast

Granola & tea

Lunch at Pastis
This was the #1 cocktail this week: Pastis, mixed with some other liquor and egg white foam, SO good!!!!!

NY Cheesecake

SWEET POTATO FRENCH FRIES, best idea ever!

Café Gitane couscous

Spicy beet juice cocktail

Nasty anchovy cocktail

Elza Jo needed some advice

M I C H E L A D A ! A cocktail made with beer, lime juice, lots of hot sauce and salt, too good!

2009-08-25T23:19:00.003+02:00

Glazed lime cilantro hoisin chicken wings

With bean sprout sesame noodles

2009-08-23T20:30:00.006+02:00

Lowlands Festival 2009 - finally a festival where I didn't have to take pictures! What a party...

Volendam on a Saturday night

Pancakes & blueberries

After all that travel food, some homemade rice & beans sure hit the spot.

Apple, cucumber & celery juice

I'd translate, but it's just too stupid

Swordfish carpaccio at Lago di Garda, Italy

Spanish classic #1, grilled vegetables

Spanish classics #2 & #3, tomato bread and anchovy stuffed olives

Spanish classic #4, gazpacho

Pretentious but tasty plate: grilled dorade & ratatouille

A well deserved pancake & beer breakfast

Spanish classic #5: golden grilled squid with a ton of garlic and parsley

French classic #1, le sanduiche Americaine: a baguette with merguez sausage, salad and french fries

2009-07-31T23:44:00.004+02:00

Yes, the project is going well. Very well indeed, thank you very much. Sadly I haven't had a chance to blog much, I've too busy travelling from place to place and taking pictures for the project that I can't post. So not too many personal pictures. But I did get to work on my tan!

2009-07-05T23:27:00.005+02:00

Me with the singer of the awesome local band performing at the town cherry festival. They held Miss Cerise elections! Sadly, I can't show any more pictures, I can't give away too many project spoilers.

Delicious peach & berry pie.

Salad with courgette. The people at this cute little campsite cook the best food.

The ultimate vacation sandwich: grilled baguette with canned tuna.

Off to France, ready for the big trip! 6 weeks of shooting people on vacation all by myself, here I go!!!

Mom made food for the road, delicious Korean sesame beansprouts.

I fell asleep on the side of the road with my hand and my face on my bag's zipper, I'm so terrified of losing my stuff or getting robbed.

At the garage, getting my car checked up before the Big Trip.

Homemade fried calamari.

Spinach salad.

Fresh squeezed watermelon juice.

2009-07-01T01:16:00.007+02:00

Fun times at muscle beach (Zandvoort)

Perfectly fried squid at, once again, Centra.

2009-06-29T18:16:00.004+02:00

Sweaty picknick with sweaty picknick foods

2009-06-29T00:12:00.004+02:00

The Hague style

One of my all time favorite fish, mackerel! Very good ketjap (sweet Indonesian soy sauce) sauce, too.

Lebanese food in The Hague

2009-06-28T23:15:00.005+02:00

The Pop Up Café threw a party last night, just the way I like it: good and sweaty! Concerts by Adolf Butler & Gewapend Beton.

Morning after brunch, also at Pop Up: delicious gazpacho and tortilla.

2009-06-25T14:21:00.002+02:00

COMING SOON - RECIPE SECTION!

After some requests, and just to keep track of some of the recipes that are old favorites or just happy accidents, I decided to add a recipe section to my blog. It'll be up in a couple of weeks!

After a tip from my raw-mom, I made a sandwich that was so good I couldn't believe it. It's grilled Turkish bread with a paste made from vegetable fibres (leftover from juicing), miso, tahin, sesame oil, mirin, olive oil, yogurt and spices. On top of that is crispy fried soy sauced tofu and a yogurt scallion sauce. The recipe will be up soon!

One of my best green juices yet - although this one was almost black. Carrot greens, mixed lettuce, cucumber, apples, tea, ginger, and a very, very ripe banana.

2009-06-23T18:30:00.002+02:00

Calamari salad, spicy eggplant puree with pomegranate and Turkish bread.

Spicy vegetarian shepherd's pie: sweet potato & coconut mash with aubergine puree and a panko breadcrumb cheese crust.

Smoked Lithuanian goodies: delicious rubbery squid!

Smoked trout, black bread and sour cream dressed spring salad. Be sure to get the 40% fat sour cream :)

2009-06-03T23:05:00.006+02:00

Festival book release party!

Signing the books

Arne, the writer, unpacking the first books!

The view from the stage, so many people came out and made my night! More pictures will be up soon.

Strawberries with hand whipped minted cream. I ate it all...

Fish burger from the fish shop, assembled and customized by me.

Muesli with succulent pear and fresh OJ

Jules, the BBQ king

Seabass from the grill with truffle potatoes, sooo good!

I felt like making Thai, so I made a salad...

...with peanut cucumber chili dressing...

...and spicy fishcakes

Yes, I know what it looks like, but it was actually delicious avocado chocolate pudding. Thank mom for the recipe.

The most amazing zarzuela! I've been trying to copy their recipe, but I can't even get close, so I just keep coming back to Centra...

If Gartine wasn't already my favorite place for lunch in Amsterdam, it is now! A GRILLED ONION SANDWICH! I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it on the menu.

My dad made me my favorites! Scallops...

...and raw tuna with soy dressing. It's so good he lives in a harbor town...

2009-05-18T00:56:00.006+02:00

Wine + Wyne + Paris = always a good thing

Paris foood

I want this couch in my house, now.

Art

Assiette de fromage, it may smell like a dead man's armpits, but it tastes so good!

And you can put that couch in this room, thank you very much. I want to move here!

Sea snails

Soul rush genius style for life like like

Freddy's homemade gnocchi

Black bean stew with Lithuanian pork

Hot & sour mango salsa

2009-05-10T16:30:00.005+02:00

Cocktails for breakfast, great before a meeting!

Crabcake with cucumber salad

Summer rolls, my favorite!

Pho & pork chops. Yes, I love pork. I really love it.

Chub & tight shirts

Sea vegetable salad

Sashimi at Saka Gura, a great Japanese place in the basement of an office building.

Eel with pickled cucumber

2009-05-07T16:40:00.004+02:00

Korean BBQ at Wonjo, go there! This is my restaurant pick of the week! GO!

Beef brisket, pork belly and tongue

Vietnamese deliciousness

Practically raw tuna salad with ginger soy dressing

Cinco de Maio carnitas at La Esquina

Black bean burger goodness

The oldest gunshop in the country

2009-05-03T19:25:00.008+02:00

I LOVE NY

On the way to the show...

Some cute kid drawing my picture

Country breakfast, biscuits and gravy!

If it's Puerto Rican you don't get Mexican flu, right?

Party style

Great roquefort pear salad

VIPing with crazy spicy cocktails in the Goldbar, some place that looks like a sparkling stripclub.

Amazing tuna ceviche!

Hearts of palm salad

2009-05-03T18:53:00.003+02:00

Spring in the suburbs

2009-05-03T18:07:00.004+02:00

Pearl onions...

...are a bitch to peel...

...but they taste so good!

The most Dutch place in the Netherlands - Marken

Fenomenal starter at restaurant Marius (Amsterdam). Magical lemony carrots!

Asparagus and skate wing

2009-04-25T09:25:00.005+02:00

Vilnius PARTY!

30+ Singles party

Club Helios

2009-04-19T22:07:00.009+02:00

A day in the country in Lithuania. It was one of the most perfect, idyllic sundays I've ever had. I don't know what could have possibly made it better.

Old school Dixi, a classic outhouse. Quite the toilet experience.

Chopping trees, Texas massacre style!

Some beavers showed us how it's done. You can see their teeth marks!

Herb crusted, soft, salt cured pork. Not quite prosciutto, but kind of. Maybe even better...

FIRE!

Cold, raw cow's milk, fresh from the teet! It was delicious...

Indre skewering pork, marinated in thick double fat buttermilk and spices, so good!

Roasted veggies

A perfect sunset to end a perfect day

2009-04-19T21:15:00.003+02:00

Dinner at Fifteen. The lamb was very nicely done, the wine and the atmosphere were good, the panna cotta with rhubarb compote was good, but on the whole the food was rather boring and predictable.

High Tea at Gartine for my birthday, sweet!! A highly recommendable place for tea, cakes and sanwiches, everything homemade!

2009-04-15T13:45:00.007+02:00

ADCN advertising awards, fun times with winners and losers!

2009-04-13T02:53:00.004+02:00

My stepdad got knocked off his bike, here's the new look. After treating us to that seven course meal last week, I guess it's only right I'm spending the easter days feeding him back to health. Family first!

2009-04-04T23:38:00.005+02:00

I just finished a seven course meal of about thirteen dishes in a cute little restaurant on a hill in Belgium, La Chaume. It was ridiculously decadent. I'm not sure I can describe everything accurately because the French speaking waiter was talking way too fast, but I'll give it a shot. Here we go!

Amuse: fish with lentils, a velouté of some root vegetable with truffle oil and a grilled oyster.

Creamy truffle risotto with ham, parmesan, asparagus and the best bacon ever.

A poached egg with sweet potato mash, grilled mushrooms and cilantro sauce, tasty but way, way too rich. After this we were pretty much done for, but we still had a way to go...

Apple compote with bacon bits and a coffee foam, really, really really good!

The main bastard: spring baby lamb with gratin. One of the most succulent, tasty, tender pieces of meat I've ever had.

I was barely able so sit upright after this, but then dessert picked us up: a perfect cinnamon ice cream with grilled pineapple and a pineapple pastry.

Now we thought we'd conquered the meal, but no... with tea came a piece of brownie, a coffee creme brulee style dessert and best of all: marinated strawberries with basil whipped cream, delicious! After all of this we are burping in truffle and basil flavor and ready to go to sleep for about a week. I feel like I'm about to explode!

Brasil inspired: rice & black bean stew with kale, oranges, fried manioc flour and plantains, and a tomato for freshness.

Simple pumpkin soup with sour cream

2009-03-21T11:56:00.004+01:00

Breakfast of champions! I caught a bad cold, so I juiced apples, a pear, an orange, limes, a cucumber, lettuce, kale (boerenkool), some tropical greens, ginger and mint with a cup of verveine tea to lift my spirits. So fresh!

This is what that process looks like. If you want to make this, make sure to strain the mess through a cheesecloth, or it's more soup than juice, and quite horrible.

Coming back from Brazil, the food there inspired me to cook tropically. A meal of favorites:

Heart of palm soup, super easy to make and quite delicious with a pineapple/kiwi caipivodka.

Indonesian coconut meatballs with a grilled mixed vegetable salad, a spring onion/bean sprout stirfry and sticky rice.

Cinnamon fried bananas with icecream

The other day I made a nice Surinam style soup with sweet potato, plantain, yardlong beans (kousenband), dried shrimp, okra, ginger and tomato. Who knew slimy okra was so good?

Simple lunch: buckwheat noodles with yardlong beans, ginger and soy sesame dressing.

2009-03-09T20:15:00.006+01:00

Another black bean soup, just because it's so unbelievably good

La cucaracha

A week old Vasco da Gama fan

Porcao, the awesome all you can eat meat restaurant

2009-03-06T13:37:00.013+01:00

Island times on Ilha Grande!

Local fisherboy

Whale impressions

Squid rings on the beach

I ordered this banana fish stew with trepedation, but it turned out to be delicious, a native speciality.

Once again, pineapple caipivodka. The one in the background is mango.

Beach vultures (urubus) feeding

Giant jungle spiderweb

Garlic chicken

This dog didn't feel like walking today

The most awesome icecream place ever! A self serve icecream bar with all toppings imaginable, the resulting icecream boat was weighed and payed at the register.

Tasty island fish with, ofcourse, rice and beans.

Banana meringue pie

Casquinha di siri, seasoned crabmeat served in the shell

2009-03-05T13:11:00.006+01:00

Carnaval in Rio

Beware of beach chairs

Leftover goat meat and broccoli rice

Smoking kills

Pineapple caipivodka

Pumping veins

Black bean soup with cilantro and bacon, sooooooo good!!!

Heart of palm, another local favorite

Acai, amazon berry pulp

Meat pastries, the perfect snack with a cold beer

Feijoada, the national dish. Black bean & pork stew with rice, crunchy manioc flour (farofa), kale (garlicky greens) and chunks of orange. If I had to choose one single dish to eat every day for the rest of my life, this would be it.

2009-02-23T00:25:00.006+01:00

I like to start my days with a fresh coconut

I love my grandma's shirt

They don't like people to know they have toiletpaper here, so they discreetly hide it in it's own little cupboard. Toiletpaper is Brazil's best kept secret.

Grandma's awesome art

Gabriel, Rodolpho & Amy

Amy trying to drink milk from my skin. She did her best, but didn't quite hit the mark.

Familyportrait

I don't quite understand why, but they just love those nasty little dogbreeds here.

I could eat this every day (and I practically do...). Rice, beans, farofa (tapiocameal) & grilled picanha (beef). Fries optional, cassava fries even better!

My sister and her boyfriend trying to find out how kitch you can make a photo.

There's nothing bad to say about a tasty barbeque at a nice house with nice people and nice weather. There just isn't.

2009-02-18T23:33:00.007+01:00

Today was jungle fun day

Limonada Suissa, whole limes (rind and everything) in the blender, superrefreshing and a bit bitter.

Jungle light

2009-02-17T14:16:00.004+01:00

Gabriel and Gabriella

Aninha melancia

Grilled cheese on a stick. They grill it for you right on the beach and add oregano and garlic sauce (the stuff that looks like sperm), it's so good!

Ass

More ass

In front of our house

2009-02-16T14:19:00.004+01:00

Bolinho de bacalhau - made with salted dried fish, my absolute favorite with a little fresh lime and spicy oil.

Fresh mango juice

The house specialty: goat meat with green rice and potatoes

2009-02-15T13:31:00.004+01:00

After inedible airplane food, Brazilian home cooking and sweet, sweet fruit was just what I needed.

Boiled plantain with cinnamon

Fruta de conde, a fruit so rich and sweet it tastes like whipped cream and condensed milk.

Tapioca pancakes...

...with garlic watercress and beef.

The best mango ever!

2009-02-14T11:52:00.002+01:00

Back in Brazil!

New gadget: airplanecamera's provide a perfect view, even if you don't have a windowseat. I still can't believe how quickly you can cross an entire ocean.

First thing in the morning, mom makes green smothies. In Brazil they get an exotic twist, this one had aloe vera.

Grandmother's kitchen floor

Green, it's so lush here you can barely see the ground from the window.

2009-02-06T23:46:00.011+01:00

Welcome to Vilnius, Lithuania!

At the local market in Vilnius they sell the most amazing pickles, just about any kind you could imagine! All fermented, not pickled in vinegar, so the flavor is very special indeed.

Pure, snow white pork fat! Eaten on black bread with onions, about the manliest sandwich you could imagine.

Homemade sauerkraut, really good!

Tongue

Ofcourse, when it's -13 degrees Celsius out, you've got to have icecream!

New hat!

Luca & carrot juice face

The Lithuanians don't seem particularly concerned about vehicular hygiene.

My welcome meal in Vilnius. After a long day without any food, a nice three course meal (all of them meat), was just what I needed.

2009-01-31T10:30:00.004+01:00

What is it about crotches that dogs find so interesting?

If I had been born 50 years sooner, I would have taken this picture!

Getting it on with other people's dogs

2009-01-31T10:14:00.002+01:00

Only in Belgium can you get a milkshake in a Duvel glass.

Okay, I wasn't the one to actually eat this giant uitsmijter, but it sure looks impressive.

How many eggs does it take to make an omelet this size? The top of this omelet was actually still runny. I can't say I would recommend lunch in Haacht.

This boy joined his master for an early afternoon beer with his buddies.

2009-01-26T19:53:00.007+01:00

Turkish bread with aubergine cilantro spread and grilled halloumi cheese.

Nachos with chili beans, guacamole, salsa and steak.

Chili, aubergine dip, kale, herby mushrooms, tomato and orange.

I just love it when ladies have feet that are too chubby for their shoes.

Fondue at Cafe Bern, so good!

Bern also serves entrecote that you cook in an herb sauce, probably even better than the fondue.

Edamame beans, my favorite

Salad and miso soup

Good times

Nice shirt

After winter fun you there has to be pea soup.

My sister on ice

Me trying to stand on skates after ten years.

What better place to get Belgian waffles than Belgium

2009-01-26T19:40:00.003+01:00

Following up on my mom's obsession with raw food, I started making green smoothies. This one has a bunch of apples, a cucumber, a bag of kale (boerenkool), a bunch of lettuce, ginger and mint. So good!!!

Apple pomegranate juice, not homemade, but great anyway.

Breakfast: fruitsalad with yogurt and muesli. Fresh passionfruit and golden kiwi make it extra good!

2009-01-26T19:27:00.002+01:00

Salad with blue cheese dressing and Turkish bread

Zarzuela

Swordfish, mangosalsa, edamame beans, guacamole and crunchy broccoli

Zarzuela again, I've been trying to copy the unbelievable one got had at Spanish restaurant Centra here in the red light district in Amsterdam.

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Happy Newyear!

Christmas dinner

Sweet potato and pumpkin, mashed

Mushroom soup with lightly whipped cream and ground, dried porcini powder

Mushroom soup - looks like mud, tastes like heaven

Durian, crazy stinky fruit

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Christmas eve is always best in a local pub with random old people

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Merry Christmas

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Winter dunes in Egmond aan Zee

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Miso mackerel with green beans and sticky rice

Salad with blue cheese dressing

Homemade hummus

Cheap Belgian hotels are the best

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Blueberry birthday pancakes

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Happy birthday Kiki & Miguel!

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Apple, red fruit & yogurt breakfast

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November weather

Bear trap

Banana berry milkshake

Antler lamp

November food

Risotto, glazed chicken wings and salad

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Paris was great!

The ceiling at Le Regine

This is hotel Amour

Where I had a great steak tartare. I was sick for two days...

So I couldn't eat this great cote de boeuf at Robert & Louise...

I believe I'm the only one who finds this funny,
but I'm posting it anyway

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Musee de la Chasse

This hunting museum in Paris has some crazy
stuff, like this ceiling with five stuffed owlheads.

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Le Loir dans la Théière

A place for cake and tea that noone should ever
visit alone. The cakes are huge!

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Paris art

A scary looking couple in the Louvre.

A show by Jeremy Deller in Palais de Tokyo,
with found objects and images from British popular culture.

Café art from a horrible Irish Pub

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La Durée!

I walked around Paris for hours to find these fenomenal macarons,
they were well worth the walk. If you're there, make sure to have
tea in their ridiculous salon. www.laduree.fr

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Dining with dad - oven baked kingfish and garlic gamba's

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Aux Raus show

Boris and his excellent knife tattoos during an Adolf Butler performance

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October light

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Old posts

I just switched to a new type of blog, so it's now possible for you to subscribe to it. So these are all the posts from my old blog.

October: fall is here

Tortilla with cumin chili beans, grilled vegetables, avocado, sour cream and lime

October 11th Diesel xXx party

October 10th 2008 Unit Market Day

Annick looking like the bride in A Nightmare before Christmas

Homemade chocolate cake

Carrot cake with a lemon glaze / also homemade

I bought a partydress for my Festivalgevoel bookrelease next year, in true figureskating style

Awesome jacket at 2d hand store

Mediterranean sweets: dates, Turkish delight, baklava and a bunch of very weird, sweet hairs

Artichocke with mustard sauce and lemon capre sauce

Fig Brownie

Homemade misosoup

Salad with barely grilled tuna, crunchy apple, sugar snaps and a sesame dressing

Parma ham, buffalo mozarella and figs - Wyne´s favorite

Jackfruit puree and pomegranate by mom

Rack of lamb, tender potatoes with garlic parsley yogurt,
green beans with a lemon miso sauce

Miso glazed chicken, sticky rice and sesame romanesco

Awesome cheap supermarket design!

This is me taking a dip in Loch Ness, Scotland. Freezing.

Beef and brocolli - defenitly my all time favorite Chinese dish

Anne Claire and her new glasses

Car trouble on the job

Bas, the neighbours cat

Raspberry banana milkshake
Crackers with creamcheese, fricandeau and a peanut cilantro sauce

My billboards all over town!

Pumpkin soupwith tofu, lime and eggplant

It might look disgusting, but it´s the best food in the world!
Rice and black beans Brazilian style and fried plantains.

This is me photographing at the Zwarte Cross festival

And this is how I got to look like this...

July 2008 Rencontres Photographiques Photofestival in the south of France

I got to see the Pastel Cats by Tim Walker up close! What with this being possibly my favorite
photograph of all time, I had to walk back at least five times to give it another look.

Perfect French peaches

June 2008

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I made Morad a shirt with a camera embroidered in gold