The cookery weekend

Finally had some time to perform my favourite hobby: Cooking. Yesterday I've made a homemade pizza. Today it was the white gold: aspargus in the Dutch traditional way.


The pizza

making the dough( flour, pinch of salt and sugar, yeast and water)

the ball of dough

the ball of dough after the rise of 1 hour in the fridge

fresh made tomato sauce with tomatoes, white wine, salt, peper, garlic, onion, basil and red pepper

My pizza with: tomato sauce, basil, cheese, ham, mushrooms and mini salami

pizza after baking( putted a splash of olive oil on it as well after baking)

The pizza was really delicious. No other pizza can beat a home made pizza. Or maybe a real Italian pizza baker can.


Sunday Aspargus

Have to eat them at least once a year. The season for aspargus is very short. 

with potatoes, ham, egg, parsley and a butter jus

Pie day

Winter is turning in very fast now. It was only 4°C, very cold. Time for pies I say!

For dinner I made chicken & leek pie which you can see in the picture. Really a dish to get your cold feet warm again. Here you can find the recipe chicken and leek pie I added some bacon and white wine for some extra flavours


After making this pie, I had some dough left. What to do with it



Well I decided to make some kind of apple pie without a recipe. I took some apples, cinnamon, sugar, vanilla and a bit of cream, chopped hazelnuts and lemonjuice. Mixed it together like this



Putted the dough and apple mixture in a tin and covered it with another layer of dough. And in to the oven he went for 45 minutes. I had no idea what it would like like or what was going to happen when finished.



After baking it looked like this.


Time to plate up now. This is the result: some sort of apfelstrudel looking applepie. With vanilla whipped cream. And tasty it was!