February 2012
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Winter coleslaw
The winter brings interesting and dull veggies such as cabbage. Just found out you can do a lot with it. I received all kinds of cabbage in my weekly treats from the local food exchange program and was tired of stir frying it and making stew with red cabbage, balsamic vinegar and apples.
I was thinking about a winter salad which was easy to make using ingredients I had home (red, white...
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Ontour brings me fresh daily Goods
Remember my post about them bags? Well, I have a new one in mind for my collection. The Goods Pretzel Tote designed by Ontour from the Netherlands. I’ve been checking them out for a few years now and am happy to hear that they dedicated their new collection to food with items called Knife (sweater), Le Chef (Jumpsuit) and Pastry (cape). Check out their ‘The Bakery’ edition.
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Bubble blower spoon by Nienke Sybrandy
Two days ago we visited Object Rotterdam 2012. An initiative curated by Anne van der Zwaag to make art and design accessible for design lovers. A way to start collecting brilliant concepts and designs by presenting awesome limited editions objects. I also got to know designer Nienke Sybrandy, because Nalden wrote about her humorous ‘wachtende spijker’. The bubble blower called...
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A Perfect Day with pizza leaves and sausages
Yesterday I went to the launch of the A Perfect Day drawings show to give some heads up for the curator Olga and the Non- Fiction crew who helped the organization out and made this happen. I’m bomb rushed with digital stuff and think this event is awesome. A very cool off line experience which I recommend you to visit. The show will be held at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam from the 10th...
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Lite/Dark
Maybe it’s mental, but a hangover could be solved with a fresh fruit juice. This time I visited this place near the headquarters. A juice bar slash chocolate bar for your dose of detox remedy, just drop at Lite/ Dark for a some vitamins. Here’s the address. Lite/ Dark, Juice & Chocolate Bar, Utrechtsestraat 22, Amsterdam
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January 2012
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Parimeter Tray by Ladies & Gentlemen
I am very fond of the stuff made by L&G Studio! A few months ago they made me super happy with a gift for my love, so he could learn to save some money. And the piggy bank was also something I like to look at haha. So now and then I check their blog out and find a reason for me to need something like this Parimeter Tray. The black one it is!
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My kid would have been a hot dog
Yep, if I had a kid. My friends at 290 Square Meters bought kids clothing for in their store after the birth of the owners son. Lovely clothing like Mini Rodini with hot dogs instead of corny cupcake prints. If you’d like your kid to be awesome and yummy, visit my favorite store with whom we started The Foundation. They also have other stuff which interest you haha
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Buonasera Vasso
I visited Italian restaurant Vasso with my sister the other day. We were in the center of Amsterdam walking from Dam Square to an unknown destination. My sis is sometimes more picky than me when it comes to food. Not necessary in how a place looks like, but in a way that you’d like to visit a cool spot where the atmosphere is like you are on a holiday or she rather eat home. I remembered...
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Breakfast at Gartine
One of my favourite breakfast and lunch spots in the Centre of Amsterdam is called Gartine. Home made treats made from ingredients grown in the garden of the owners according the Slow food principles, served in a cute and antique decorated brasserie. Must visit!
This place is located in the most crowded place of Amsterdam. In an alley between the shopping streets Kalverstraat and the Rokin....
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Beauty Detox Solution by Kimberly Snyder
This was one of my reads during my trip to Tenerife. A title which you can call one of your new years resolutions for 2012. Kimberly, I think you are awesome and beautiful, yet you make me feel bad after Tenerife. What happened inTenerife, stays in Tenerife….
The Beauty Detox is a book which will give you many scientific insights about how humans are designed. What we used to eat,...
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Ice Cold Dorada
I’m more of a vino tinto than a beer kinda girl, unless it’s light beer and when I’m amongst tropical vibes. Call me an occasional beer drinker.
Arriving in Tenerife, Spain the whole airport was screaming: Welcome to the island of Dorada! Like the beer was a monument. So, to help boosting the Spanish economy and ofcourse not to offend the Canarian, I ordered Dorada on hot...
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Cava del Mencey - Santa Cruz
I wish I stayed at the new hotel across the street of Cava del Mencey. Why? The rest of Tenerife is quiet during the siesta and low season, the South is horror (only mass tourism where it’s impossible to eat Canarian food!) and staying at the capital is very practical if you’d like to see the best of Tenerife by car.
Okay, Cava del Mencey. I had to go to the ladies room...
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Spanish Coffee Menu
….for Dummies haha Well, I need to explain the coffee menu to you. Cappuccino is served con leche (how most of us drink it, with foamy milk) or con crema (with cream), so you won’t get surprised if you get one with cream if you imagined a coffee with foamy milk. With cream is awesome btw. And I was about to swear off coffee, because I can ‘t deal with caffeine. You know...
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Food con Mojo
I love hot sauce and I always bring a bottle as a souvenir for my hot sauce collection at home. The ingredients of local hot sauces tell me a lot about the culture of a certain era before the ‘globalization’ of ingredients. Find it kind of interesting. I mean we can get McIlhenny Tabasco everywhere, but it’s hard to find sambal for example. And yes, Spain has been influenced in...
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Churreria Chocolateria El Guanche - Candelaria
Greedy as I was… lured by the smell of fresh fried Churros… as was the cute chubby boy who just came from Judo class and ordered tons of Churros, I bought a bag full of Churros as well! 5 pieces for 1€ with a cup of dark chocolate sauce.
Just ate one and a half Churro…I was so full and will leave fried pastries alone for a couple months, I guess. It was worth it though...
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Picnic Spot - Bosque de Las Mercedes
One of the last three sub tropical cloud forests can be found at the Anaga Mountains north of Tenerife, called Bosque de Las Mercedes. It’s quite chilly there, so make sure you bring a jacket and a scarf. This place is ideal for walks and picnics if you love the bush and need some time with nature before going to the touristic and mass playas. The Mercedes woods are beautiful!
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Canarian Sweets - Almendras Cookies!
Unfortunately I couldn’t find pasteleria’s which were open during the siesta. I totally forgot about the Spanish nap hour when I was at my most active haha But if you have the chance try and get some home made almond cookies!
Or these babies from Dulceria Nublo - Tejeda, Gran Canaria. A delicious and very crumbly almond cookie. Available at a store called Artesanos del...
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Meet Lucas at Playa de Las Teresitas
This is my favorite beach! North of the capital of Tenerife, Santa Cruz at the end/beginning of the highway Sur is Playa de Las Teresitas. An awesome clean sand beach with a small harbour where locals run, take a quick swim after, the elderly practice their dance moves and the place where I met Lucas.
Lucas doesn’t speak English and thinks that the tourist should speak Spanish to...
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Picnic Spot - Vilaflor to El Teide
If you stay in the south of Tenerife make sure you take the road to El Teide vulcano via the village Vilaflor for an awesome road trip with some picnic spots along the good maintained roads and awesome woods, which are btw different than the woods up North!
Forgot to have some breakfast? You can get some food at the Vilaflor Square across the church before you leave for the El Teide. I...
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Succes beef stew
This recipe is really for the lazy ones. Last Saturday I tried out the infamous beef stew recipe of Jelle Spanjaard. Both Jelle and I have a subscription to de Krat, a North Holland CSA service (community supported agriculture). We receive local produced goods like jam, juices, vegetables, fruits, eggs, bread and meat or fish on a weekly base. Most of the time Jelle and I cook together with de...
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Shopping bags!
I thought I lost this awesome bag until I found it in my storage closet. In 2008 I received this hilarious bag from Sixten a Montreal based graphic designer who worked with Nalden at a creative agency. This bag made me smile and most of the people who saw me using this cotton bag instead of plastic grocery bags. Watch me going green haha
Next to this bag I use some other grocery bags instead of...
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Foodware
Foodware is one of my favorite places for take out with healthy options when you are too tired to cook. The owner and chef Sander makes daily specials with seasonal and local products. A very simple concept: choose your meat, fish, poultry or vegetarian option and two healthy side dishes.
The thing which attracts me the most is the colorful combination of ingredients. Beautiful dark red...
December 2011
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Glühwein
Christmas markets and Glühwein were always nightmares to me. Terrible curation of market stalls and very bad Glühwein. I couldn’t believe that there wasn’t a proper recipe which does justice to this popular mid European drink which is like a hot sangria haha
I’m not a fan of cinnamon, but think it’s very essential for Glühwein. I’ve googled my way and found a few...
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The Godfather I: Clemenza Spaghetti Sauce
My love surprised me with some Christmas movies and proposed to stay home last Saturday to relax. He didn’t came back with Beethoven, Home Alone, The Holiday or another romantic comedy, but The Godfather Trilogy hahaha.
I never watched it because I thought it was too macho, violent and didn’t want to go into the ‘its-classic-hype’. And yes men love this movie, because of...
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BabyCakes book to the rescue
A gift tip or a life saver? Well, both I guess. My sister bought the Babycakes NYC book and we tried some vegan recipes out. I totally fell in love with the raspberry scones and couldn’t believe that something without animal ingredients could taste that good. Tasted terrible vegan cupcakes before and am happy to hear and taste that vegan can be good too.
The recipes are so easy to...
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Stop the water while using Lemon Honey
Another gift tip with an awesome, yet simple concept: Stop the water while using me soap from Germany. I always turn off my water as a habit, but think this lovely soap is a nice way to remind you doing it.
Suckers for food, fragrant beauty products, simplicity and graphic design will love these next to their sink. A simple item which says a lot!
For the Dutchies, The Lemon Honey Soap 200 ml...
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Always bring your Coffeespot
I received this present @Nalden HQ and was so happy that my Wine Record book finally had a friend! Another must have for in your analog world made by Not too Arty from Belgium.
Love the simple design of the compact book and think graphic designers and notebook lovers will appreciate this too. Unfortunately, I switched to decaf, since I’m too sensitive for caffeine. Now my decaf adventures...
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Frozen Fountain selection of sweets
Buying gifts is always a difficult adventure for me. Why? I always get distracted with nice items I’d like to have myself. Frozen Fountain in Amsterdam is one of my favorite stores. One of the relevant places to find beautiful and clever designed items in all price ranges. For small trifle gifts check out their candy table with delicious Dolfin Chocolate, beautiful wrapped old school candy...
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Golden Lollipop
Like to buy something gold for you loved ones for Christmas and are low on budget? Droog Design sells lollipops with 24K gold foil. Classy! This lollipop comes in a bizarre series of lolli’s tho’, yet thought it was very fascinating when I saw it for the first time. Black ants with peppermint, scorpions with vodka or worms in tequila flavored candy. All these protein rich bugs are...
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Melly's Cookie bar
Yesterday, I had a-tourist-in-her-own-city- moment with my sister. I live in the centre of Amsterdam and most of the time I avoid eating in the centre. Why? Because it’s poor quality of food targeted to the mass tourist without taste. But still, there are some good spots you need to visit. Just like Melly’s Cookie bar across the awful Magna Plaza behind the Nieuwe kerk, Damsquare.
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Kitchen Essentials pt.2
It has been a while that I wrote Kitchen Essentials pt.1. A blogpost about your must have kitchen essentials. I totally had no idea how to follow up in a short blogpost about knives or pans, since I knew less when I was reading more about it.
While working at home today, because I wasn’t feeling good, I catched up with some old school reading and found Super Normal, Sensations of the...
November 2011
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Carrot Overload
Dear all! What to do if you have tons of carrots and want to turn it into something easy to make? Peel some carrots and chop them in fine disks and steam them for a few minutes until it’s cooked.In another pan heat some olive oil or butter and sautee your chopped leek. Add your carrots, season with salt and pepper and add sugar or in my case a bit of agave syrup. Stir until everything...
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Bakken met Passie
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! So, I treated my dear friend the Style Visitor for a birthday breakfast after a wild night out haha. My idea is to get out of my comfort zone, just like when I’m abroad and picked Bakken met Passie in another area of town as THE joint to start the day. Why?
Hello, look at the pictures. You are absolutely crazy if you don’t enter...
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Lachaert: When B&B meets design
A dear food and design lover Theor pointed me out on this awesome exhibition Table Talks and B&B in Tielrode, Belgium where he ‘stranded’ because of the misty weather the last couple of days.The gallery was opened in 2000 by designers Sophie Lachaert and Luc d’Hanis. Just next to their home and workshop where you can find the Bed & Breakfast too! The gallery exhibits...
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Bar Moustache Winter salad
Invited a friend to Bar Moustache in the Utrechtsestraat for some lunch. Place looked nice, salad was awesome but…
Maybe I got there on a bad day. (I hope so) The waiters where doing to cool for school and didn’t even say hi when I got in to spend my monies there. And it also took a while before I got attention and a drink. Come again?
The place is ok if you are fine minding your...
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Sugarless by J&J
Another joint for the ones with food allergies haha a lunch room where you can find all natural and organic breakfast, lunch and sweets without refined sugar or yeast. Have a try and visit Sugarless by J&J in Amsterdam West.
Crime: Sugarless All in breakfast with egg, bread, jam, butter, orange juice and tea, wholemeal scones with clotted cream and jam Scene: Sugarless, Bilderdijkstraat 92,...
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Apple Crumble
Autumn is in the air and the weather keeps me inside. Bring on the warm dishes for couch potato evenings with friends. Got them apples? Well, I had some! And this is what you can bake in just a few minutes: Apple crumble!
If I have a food overload, I just invite friends over to help me eat it all. I had some apples and was kinda fed up making something with it again. I’ve juiced them,...
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Lolli-Pop by Massimo Gammacurta
Photographer Massimo Gammacurta’s edible icon lollipops project got a lot of attention on the internets. The New York based photographer has worked for publications and brands before, which mos def inspired him to make sweets out of the brand logo’s. Had to miss these lolly’s, but you can check his lolly photography in print.
Here are some other lollipops I need to share.
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Montgomery's Coffee House
After our visit to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum and checking the Refound pop-up shop out we needed to have something to drink, because we were kind off dehydrating after a two hours walk in the awesome Kelvingrove Museum. Crime: Soy decaf cappuccino (yes, I’m for real) with a caramel shortcake aside Scene: Montgomery’s Coffee House, 9 Radnor Street, Glasgow (near Kelvingrove...
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Grosvenor Cinema
One of the things I love as a tourist is to do what the locals do. Go to the cinema! And preferably the art house ones. Just to experience the sphere of a city and its folks. We were planning to check out Ides of March and dine at the Grosvenor Cafe first. A venue with a cafe slash restaurant in the loft of the building, a bar and cinema downstairs. Crime: I’ve ordered three small bites for...
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Stravaigin - Full U.K. Breakfast
If you don’t know me that well and don’t get why I eat meat, yet be enthusiast about vegetarian food here’s the WHY. First I don’t eat pork, my dairy and meat tolerance is quite bad, need my vegs and when travelling uhm I’d like to play it safe… Unfortunately I always have to skip the traditional U.K. breakfast because of the bacon, sausage and black pudding....
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Saramago Cafe - Let's go vegan
I used to spend tons of money on shopping. Looking for limited edition stuff like bags, sneakers etcetera. Still love beautiful things which enriches my life, but instead of shopping like a retard I rather check out art, let it inspire me and spend more monies on delicious food. The Centre for Contemporary Arts had most of my favourites. Jewelery made by local artists, prints by local graphic...
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Tunnock's madness
If you go to Scotland, friends will yell Haggis! A must try when you are in Scotland. But I honestly think they missed this: Tunnock’s Tea cakes and waffles. Haha…
The madness started when I was at Trongate 103. The Glasgow print studio. While looking for prints from local graphic designers I stumbled upon a print from Fiona Watson and more of Tunnock’s waffle, tea cake and...