BBBabes & Buddies (by babe Elizabeth)
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Sunday, May 9, 2010
Happy Mother’s Day
I wish all mothers over the world (even though some countries have a different date for Mothers Day) the best Mothersday. I’m having a lovely day. Kids were up early, set the table, toasted bread and boiled some eggs. Went out very early to pick some flowers. They’ve been busy whispering and sneaking upstairs a lot this last week, fortunately the both had a week off from school (may holidays) and as you’ll see they made good use of it!
I was excorted out of bed with a little present to find breakfast ready. On the table was a display my daughter made: A landscape with a lovely chickencoop… and you know we just love our chickens over here.
Chocolate chicks everywhere, a blue fish in the pond, which is not a hairclip as I first thought, but a pencil sharpener (he spits out the bits and pieces when you open it up after sharpening). A tree with a secret squirrel hiding place, where I found a decorated cloths pin to keep my papers in order. The egg in the coop contained an egg-warmer. So cute.
Later I got these tealight glasses my boy made at school, love those! A velvet heart with a magnet in it. Some shampoo, two bags with bath bubble soap…. am I spoiled or what!!!
I just love it when they make their own things to give, there is no shop bought gift that can beat that. I wish you all a great mother’s day too, mine is the best ever!
Lien
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Shoot!

Thursday, March 11, 2010
Spring is on its way.........
One of our chickens has laid her first egg of this year! A lovely small and pointy egg.. well of course the first one of the year has to make way for the next eggs to come. 42 grams, they are small chickens so that's normal, though they get bigger up to 50 grams from this chicken.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Baking again, cursed again and an award

I think there is a computer curse in this house, after so many problems with the old one, so much time to get the new laptop working, last week we finally became wireless and finally were able to print again... and then my laptop turned black, just like that. Just dead black. *sigh* this is not helping my mood one bit. So this week back to the computershop and we'll see if we have to start all over again and if this is the final curse. The old one (which I am using now) started to go black too every now and then after we got back, so there's no telling how long I can still communicate. I have no more to say to you all right now and I'll leave you this wonderful recipe of a pie with apples and strawberries, just so you know I'm still here, but not a 100%.
I can't include any pictures (yet) because I didn't copy them yet to my external drive. You can see a slice of the endresult in the header, so that's at least something.
- external memory
UPDATE: It's two days later now since I wrote this, the other older computer died as well and I couldn't continue this post. But the good news is my laptop has been reanimated in the meantime and I can finish (finally!!) this post including the pictures Yay!
(a 9 inch pie)
3 apples, peeled, cored and sliced
500 g strawberries
100 g sugar
4 TBsp cornstarch
Pinch of nutmeg
1 TBsp lemon juice
grated zest of 1/2 lemon
½ tsp rosewater
10 mint leaves, shredded
1 egg yolk (for brushing)
Roll out half of the dough (the larger 'half') and place it in the pie dish, leaving the dough drape over the side of the pan. Refrigerate while you're making the filling.
Mixed the slices apples, mintleaves and the strawberries sliced thick in a bowl. Mix the sugar, cornstarch and nutmeg together in another small bowl. Mix the sugar, cornstarch and nutmeg together in another small bowl. Stir the lemon juice, zest and rosewater in the fruits. Sprinkle the dry ingredients over the fruits, toss and fill the pastry case.
Roll out the other piece of dough, you can either place it on top (and make some steam ventilation holes) or make a lattice topping by cutting thick ribbons and placing them on the filling crosswise.
Push the rims together and make a nice edge with a forkpattern or sculpt into an upstanding ridge.
Wisk the egg yolk with 1 TBsp water and brush the pastry with it.
Place the pie dish on a larger sheet covered with aluminium foil (juices will start to bubble and you don't need to clean your oven after baking).
Bake in an oven for 30 minutes, reduce the heat to 375ºF (180ºC) and bake for another 40 minutes until golden brown and the juices bubbling.
Leave to cool at least 2 hours before serving on a cooling rack.
(adapted from Ken Headrich's "Apple Pie perfect")
There are some rules to go with it (I copied/pasted them from Jamie's blog)1. Thank the person who nominated you for this award.
2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog.
3. Link to the person who nominated you for this award.
4. Name 7 things about yourself that people might find interesting.
5. Nominate 7 Kreativ Bloggers.
6. Post links to the 7 blogs you nominate.
7. Leave a comment on each of the blogs letting them know they have been nominated.
I am passing on this award to 7 inspiring food bloggers :
1. Aparna from "My diverse Kitchen", talking about creative, look at all the vegetarian dishes she makes!
3. Karen from "Bake my day!", she was the inspiration for me to start a blog in the first place and is very kreative in her writing.
4. Susan from "Wild Yeast", who is being creativ with yeast in a big way and let us enjoy it in her 'Yeast Spotting'
5. Laura from "Tiramisù", where you can find not only the most delicious dishes, beautiful pictures, but the cutest chicks ever too!
6. Zainab & Hameeda, two sisters in Saudia Arabia, who make the most delicious and mouthwatering things with oriental flavorings in "Arabic Bites", they are real kitchenwizzards.
7. Marjoke from "Company in my kitchen" a fellow dutch foodblogger, who blogs in english and bakes her fair share of beautiful breads.
This was the easy part, now I have to think of 7 things about me that might be of interest to you. I really have to think hard here.... I could tell you that I'm no good in talking about myself a lot, but most probably know that already... Did I hear someone in the back saying you didn't know??? OK, saved by the voice in the backrow, so this is 1.
3. People have been saying to/about me all my life, that I can do anything (effortless they think).. I don't believe them at all. I just can/could do lots of things a bit.
4. I studied at an Academy of Arts, I graduated in painting/drawing and teaching Art-history.
5. I play the piano, just a bit.
6. I use up a lot of bandage, because I've had exzema since birth, these days it mostly effects my hands, which limits me in the things I can do. Every bread I knead hurts my skin. (that's why I only play the piano a bit too)
7. I seem to have lost my ability of being organised, that I was 'famous' for. Midlife crisis I guess. At least I can still count to 7 :)
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Ik heb deze keer veel moeite om terug in het normale leefritme te komen. Ik heb niet echt een oorzaak, maar zit een beetje in een dip en kom daardoor slecht aan het schrijven van blogstukjes. Ik ben natuurlijk al weer aan het bakken, er moet tenslotte brood op de plank komen, maar het meeste komt uit de machine. Een cake en een taart zijn ook al gemaakt, maar verder wil het niet erg opschieten. Ik zit wel achter de computer, maar verpruts mijn tijd met... weet ik veel. Deze week is onze zoon alweer naar school gegaan, dus kom ik tenminste op tijd mijn nest uit. (23 cm taart in een springvorm of pie-vorm)
3 appels, geschild en in plakjes
500 g aardbeien
100 g suiker
4 el maizena
snuf nootmuskaat
1 el citroensap
geraspte schil van 1/2 citroen
½ tl rozenwater
10 muntbladeren, in dunne reepjes
1 eidooier (om te bestrijken)
Rol het deeg uit en bekleed de (ingevette en bebloemde) springvorm/pie-vorm, laat het overhangende deeg aan de rand eraan zitten. Zet in de koelkast tot je zover bent.
In een aparte kleinere kom meng je de suiker, nootmuskaat en maizena. Roer het citroensap, citroenrasp, rozenwater door het fruit. Strooi de droge ingrediënten over het fruit en schud om. Vul de taartbodem.
Rol het andere stuk deeg uit. Je kunt het zo op de taart plaatsen (en wat ventilatiegaatjes maken) of repen deeg kruisgewijs over de taart leggen. Druk de randen op elkaar en maak of een opstaande golfrand of druk met de tanden van een vork het deeg rondom aan. Bestrijk met de eierdooier die je met een eetlepel water klutst.
Zet de bakvorm op een bijv. een bakplaat met een stuk alufolie eronder, door de sappige vruchten zal het namelijk gaan bubbelen en je wilt niet dat je hele oven eronder komt.
Bak 30 minuten in een voorverwarmde oven en daarna nog 40 minuten op 180ºC tot de taart goudbruin is en hij bubbelt.) Laat de taart tenminste 2 uur voor aansnijden afkoelen.
(Naar: Ken Haedrich's "Apple Pie Perfect")
Monday, August 3, 2009
I'm back!!
No internet, no TV (well there was a TV, but we didn't watch it), felt like totally having been cut of the world, which really can be a blessing sometimes. But I missed you all and don't think I'll be able to catch up with all the posts that are in my reader and all the emails, but I'll try anyway, so if you've been waiting for a reply.. just wait a little longer :).
We had a wonderful time, we stayed outside of Fano (Le Marche) for the first two weeks... and it was hot....real hot 36, 37, 38 yes we even reached just over 40°C! So of course we spent some days at the beach, but managed to visit a lot of places too, like Ravenna, Ferrara, Bologna (really loved Bologna), Urbino, Comacchio and even another country: San Marino.
I didn't cook much during the holidays because it was just too hot. An old man nearby gaves us a bucket full of green figs that had to be eaten there on the spot. There were to many to eat that quick. Figs are hard to come by here in the Netherlands and expensive too, so I couldn't just throw them out. We went to the supermarket bought sugar (couldn't find any pectine or so), jars and I stood there cooking jam and figs on syrup on a gas stove while it was 40°C. Afterwards I wouldn't have done that again... I think.
For the last week we drove over to the Como Lake were we stayed in a house in Nesso built on the mountain slope. Boy o boy did we have a heavenly view from each and every window!!
On our last day we asked our neighbours above us if we could park on their spot, that was alright and so we carried all the bags and So I'm back. As is was a wet day here yesterday -can't even pretend that we were still on holiday with this rain- all the washing is shaped into a mountain in the garage, we'll get to it. Better get some shopping done now to fill the fridge. Not ready yet to bake something, but you know that will only be matter of days.
Hope you all had a great holiday and those who are still looking forward in going: have fun and travel carefully!
*PS. In case you're wondering what things I bought that made the car heavier than it was on the way there: some books of course (3 on bread, 1 on sweet baking, 1 on gelato, 1 for reading in Italian, several magazines... on cooking), a colomba mold! yes finally success in the most obscure little hardware shop of all places. The assistant had to go out to wherever it was to get it, because it's not in season obviously, I bought some small paper molds too. I always buy different kind of flours and other foods of course; cheeses, bresaola, dried fruits, nuts, olive oils, wines, liquors, amarena cherries....ecc....ecc.
Stil was het hier de laatste drie weken hè, het leek nog even of ik er was door het bericht dat verscheen over de Tahini krullen, maar dat was allemaal voorgekookt , nou ja gebakken in dit geval en op de automatische piloot gezet. We hadden geen internet, geen TV (nou ja die was er wel, maar we hebben niet gekeken), geen krant, gewoon afgesneden van de buitenwereld wat soms even een verademing is. Maar ik miste de verslavende uren achter de PC wel, alle blogs, twitter, facebook, kortom jullie allemaal.Ik denk niet dat ik snel door mijn reader en mails heen kom, laat staan overal reacties geven. Maar ik doe mijn best, dus wacht je nog op antwoord?... komt goed.
Ons uitzicht vanaf het terras van ons vakantiehuisje bij Fano
De derde en laatste week verhuisden we naar een huisje in Nesso aan het Como-meer. Tjongejonge wat hadden we daar een hemels uitzicht, welk raam of deur je ook door keek. (foto zie boven). Maar tjongejonge wat hadden we een helse "oprit", zo steil en middenin een 90 graden bocht.. toen we aankwamen dacht ik dat we dwars de railing de bergwand af zouden suizen. Maar drie wielen hadden contact met de grond en met een 1.6 en geen 4x4 was dat geen lolletje. We merkten echter al snel dat naar beneden een lachertje was, omhoog was bloedstollend: slippende wielen, stinkend rubber, gierende motor... Geen kans om dat met onze auto te doen met 4 personen erin, laat staan als we terug omhoog zouden moeten voor de reis naar Nederland helemaal bepakt met bagage en
Het is allemaal gelukt en de laatste avond hebben we onze bovenburen gevraagd of we onze auto voor die ene keer op hun plek mochten zetten (zij hadden een kleine auto die ook in hun tuin kon staan), dat mocht gelukkig, dus leeg naar boven gereden en alle tassen en kratten de helling op gehesen en de auto ingepakt. We zijn om half 2 's nachts vertrokken, omdat we toch al wakker waren geworden en dat bleek achteraf een gouden greep. Want het was wel Zwarte Zaterdag, maar wij konden door het vroege tijdsstip heerlijk doorrijden, maar 15 minuten wachten voor de St. Gotthard tunnel en eigenlijk werd het pas in Nederland drukker op de weg, we waren even voor 14.00 weer thuis.Dus ik ben er weer, aangezien het gisteren regende (je kunt ook niet lang doen alsof je nog vakantie hebt), ligt alle was nog als een berg in de garage, wordt aangewerkt. Nu moet ik eerst maar eens boodschappen gaan doen en de koelkast vullen. Nog niet aan bakken toe, maar dat zal ook wel niet lang duren denk ik.
Ik hoop dat jullie allemaal een heerlijke vakantie hebben en voor degenen die nog gaan: heb het leuk en reis voorzichtig!
*PS. Voor het geval dat je je afvraagt wat ik in hemelsnaam gekocht hebt om de auto lekker door de vering te laten zakken: natuurlijk wat boeken (3 over brood, 1 over zoet bakken, 1 over ijs, 1 om in het Italiaans te lezen, diverse tijdschriften... over koken), een blikken colomba vorm; eindelijk gelukt in een duister ijzerwarenhandeltje nota bene, de verkoper moest het van ver halen, want het is natuurlijk totaal buiten het seizoen. Ook nog wat papieren colomba vormen omdat ik toch bezig was. Ik koop ook altijd verschillende soorten meeI en andere etenswaren: kazen, bresaola, gedroogde vruchten, noten, olijfolie, wijn, sterke dranken, blikken amarenakersen.... ecc....ecc.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Stacks of problems and bakes
Sorry, it's still a bit silent here. With my last post it all seemed to be going in the right direction: new laptop, man included (for installation purposes only) to transfer all my photo's and documents to the laptop, the old one (pc not man!) was to be cleaned and repared, a new screen and a new printer.Well that didn't went as planned. He started transferring things, how speedy these people click away I can't follow. I thought I saw some things copied twice and/or three times, but really it was all OK, no worries. Then the laptop acted weird, he couldn't find out what it was, so took it with him. Two days later it was fixed, another man came to bring it by, didn't know what was done or not done with the transferring (and I didn't know either to be honest, except for the 'no-worries' part), so he left. Thinking that I was very clever probably to do the rest myself.
So I started to try and get some order in my pictures and documents. For hours and hours and days. Let's be short about it... it's total chaos, my whole system lost, lots of pictures missing. All the ones that I was going to post about, so that's why there is no new post yet. All my Bread Baking Babes badge pictures and stuff to make the buddie badge for this month.... nowhere to be found, so please keep baking buddies, but have a little patience, I'll get you a badge as soon as I can. Pictures in the wrong place, sometimes 4 copies in different places... ah well you get the picture (I didn't). The printer also stopped working. This friday a man will come... they said.... I called them not to delete anything from the old computer, because I need my pictures... No worries, they said... yeah right!











