Recipes by AmyShortstuff
Sweet, sticky and yet crunchy, date pie! This recipe takes a little prepping time, but it sure is worth your time. A big cup of matcha latte and a piece of pie? It’s a date! Bagels&Beans is a coffee franchise in the Netherlands that focusses on …
You’ve waited long for this recipe, but trust me, it’s worth the wait! In my last post, for Munchday, I posted a recipe for totally safe to eat cookie dough with a little hint that this would be great in ice cream.. Now get ready for: …
If you’ve ever attempted to baked cookies before, you’ll know how delicious cookie dough is and how hard it is not to eat the entire batch before actually baking them. Normally this would not be such a great idea, because of the potential salmonella in …
In the mid-19th century, the Dutch began making a treat known as olykoeks (oil cakes). These donuts were balls of cake, which were cooked in pork fat until they were golden brown. The problem with these treats was that the cake cooked much faster on …
When I was a little girl I already had a big interest in everything that happend in the kitchen. This started when I was a toddler, because I could spend hours in the cabinets and playing with the contents. My parents weren’t very fond of …
Last week I got a lovely bunch of fresh rhubarb from my mother-in-law’s garden. T’is the season! Well, rhubarb season that is. I love the combination of strawberry and lime, but also the combo of strawberry and rhubarb. So why not combine both? It’s strawberry …
This recipe is for both Fry-day and Copy Caturday! The Hela curry sauce is the most popular brand of “currysauce” in the Netherlands. It is a spicy kind of ketchup that is mostly eaten with fries and fried goods. The most well-known use of currysauce is …
The Dutch love their snacks, like bitterballen, kroketten and frikandellen. They even have special snack vending machines, maybe you know them as Automats. In Dutch these were named Automatiek, but are now known as FEBO, named after the first, and now biggest, company to have introduced …
Easter Sunday celebrates Christ’s resurrection from the dead, following crucifixion. It marks the end of Holy Week, the end of Lent, and the last day of the Easter Triduum (Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday), as well as the beginning of the Easter season. The resurrection represents the triumph …
My hubby loves chocolate, the darker the better. So by his request: Subway’s double chocolate cookies! Rich, chewy and chocolate stuffed. Whether it’s because you need some for your coffee break with a friend, a homemade birthday gift or to impress your family at the …
