Category: Veggie
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Restaurant Flore**, Amsterdam (Jul 2025)
I visited last in 2017, but the restaurant has changed direction to conscious plant-forward fine dining and recently undergone a full remodeling. Time to revisit the fine dining restaurant of Hotel De L’Europe. about the restaurant That last visit was for a business lunch, but back then it was still called Bord’eau**. Bas van Kranen…
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Around the World – Restaurant Coque** – Madrid (Oct 2023)
A very good reason to return from hiatus…
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Choux x De Nieuwe Winkel Food Box (Feb 2021)
A collaboration vegan food box of Choux (Amsterdam) and De Nieuwe Winkel (Nijmegen).
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Choux at Home food box (Jan 2021)
We tried the ‘Choux voor Thuis’ food box a couple of weeks ago and were in for a treat!
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HFSLG – Snacks and Dinner Food Boxes (Jan 2021)
We kicked off 2021 well with snacks and dinner boxes from De Hoefslag a.k.a. HFSLG.
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Restaurant Fred** At Home Food Box (Dec 2020)
With both Christmas days already occupied with the Dutch tradition of “gourmetten”, we decided to treat ourselves to a fancier pre-Christmas food box from Rotterdam’s Restaurant Fred**.
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Daalder Food Box (Nov 2020)
The fourth and last instalment of our November fine dining food box month, Restaurant Daalder.
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De Jonge Dikkert @ Home Food Box (Nov 2020)
The third instalment of our November-fine-dining-food-box-month was a local Amstelveen one: De Jonge Dikkert @ Home.
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Triptyque Thuismenu Food Box (Nov 2020)
The second instalment of our November food box month was from Restaurant Triptyque.
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Olivijn* Thuis Food Box (Nov 2020)
With the restaurants closed yet again, we are trying out fine dining food-boxes the entire month of November.
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Restaurant De Loohoeve*, Schoonloo (Oct 2020)
We had a festive dinner at De Loohoeve* on holidays in Drenthe, in the North-Eastern part of the Netherlands,
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Roasted Corn Chowder
Spoon Fork Bacons claim of “the best corn chowder you’ll ever taste!” may actually be true…
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Restaurant Coulisse, Amsterdam (Sept 2020)
We celebrated Chantal’s birthday with a lunch at Coulisse.
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Restaurant Merlet*, Schoorl (Aug 2020)
Our first fancy lunch after the lockdown was at Merlet* and it was fabulous!
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Vegan Mushroom Shoarma with Toum
We tried this delightful Lebanese-style mushroom shoarma, and it was hands-down the best vegetarian one we ever had! Added bonus: social distancing comes naturally with the amount of garlic in the toum sauce!
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Creamy Garlic Chicken + Leek & Mustard Quesadillas
Some more adventurous fillings for a quesadilla!
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Japanese-style Celeriac Steak by Tim Anderson
Panfried slabs of celeriac covered with a delightful sesame-soy-ginger Wafu dressing and topped with fried garlic crisps, sesame seeds, and spring onions.
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Garlic Butter Gnocchi with Crispy Tender Stem Broccoli
A quick, creamy, and tangy vegetarian weekday dinner.
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Harissa Butternut Squash à la Hasselbacken
Likely you have seen those cute roasted Hasselback potatoes before, but you can also use this technique on a butternut squash!
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Watercress Salad with Roasted Asparagus, and Peas
A quick, healthy, and delicious salad with green asparagus, pea, and eggs, tossed in a refreshing yogurt-based honey-mustard dressing.
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RIJKS* x Manu (March 2020)
A memorable vegetarian lunch event at RIJKS* (and also the last time eating out in quite a while, I am afraid…)
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Carrot Salad with Harissa, Feta, and Mint
A fantastic salad is based on an old recipe I found over at Smitten Kitchen and my own recipe for harissa which is inspired by Franck Dangereux.
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Garlic Mushroom, Cavolo Nero and Red Rice Stirfry with Avo and Eggs
The past week, we have been cooking some delicious vegetarian dinners from Nina Olsson’s cookbook Feasts of Veg.
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Bistro Bord’o – Leiden (January 2020)
We started 2020 well, catching up with friends at Bistro Bord’o in Leiden.
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‘Cook like a Chef’ Food Box – Review
A food box that enables you to recreate dishes from some of the best Dutch chefs at home!
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Cabbage with Ginger Cream and Szechuan Chili Oil by Yotam Ottolenghi
The other brilliant dish I tried from “Yotam Ottolenghi’s fusion feast” column in The Guardian.
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‘Caponata’ with Silken Tofu by Yotam Ottolenghi
His recipe column in The Guardian recently had some experimental fusion dishes under the moniker “Yotam Ottolenghi’s fusion feast”, so what did I do: I combined elements of two of these dishes…
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Restaurant Jaimie van Heije – Ouderkerk a/d Amstel (June 2019)
Time for the summer installment of #jaimiestuesdaytestkitchen!
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