Quick lunch: an Italianate variation on a Dutch uitsmijter. I cut slices out of the few days old boules of rosemary bread from That's Amore Italian Cafe. A layer of cream cheese, prosciutto, and eggs...
Dutch New Year's Day tradition: jenever! EDIT: it is regular Bols Jonge Jenever in a very nice Delfts Blue ceramic bottle instead of the traditional regular stoneware bottle.
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." I am, of course, not speaking of anything of substance (as this is Facebook and that...
I was not naughty this year! Santa liked me: Experimenting with chef's knives for the boat, I'm considering Japanese santoku or Chinese cleaver style knives. Preferably hybrid: German stainless steel...
Tonight, after my awesome massage therapist's assault I needed bit to fast. Guy Devillier at That's Amore Italian Cafe posted today and tomorrow they had clams in pesto on linguine. So that for Irene...
My new favorite series: The Gentleman Bastards, by Scott Lynch. Grand High Fantasy, swords and sorcery, swashbuckling, love and loss, wars and thievery, a black pirate queen with toddlers, and, most...
