Recipes by AmyShortstuff
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 …
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 …
Apple sauce was once a food prepared for winter, since it keeps well. It originated in medieval times, when the possibilities to preserve food were limited. Apples were cooked with sugar or honey into a puree and put into jars. The high levels of sugar …
Happy π-day everyone! I can’t believe it’s been so long since I last posted a pie recipe, shame on me! Even more because pies are my favourite thing to bake. This pie is a combination of an American classic, the blueberry pie, and a southern Dutch pie. …
Thursday was my 25th birthday and my gift to you is a new category: CopyCat Recipes! Copy Caturday will be every second Satuday of the month and the first recipe is my favorite cheesecake in the world: Bagels&Beans cheesecake! Bagels&Beans is a coffee franchise in the …
These cookies are known in the Netherlands as “Bastognekoeken”. They were created about 60 years ago by Paul Parein and he needed a fitting name for the cookies. Bastogne is a village in Belgium in the Ardennes and the structure of the cookies reminded him of the …
I wouldn’t be the fully-stuffed geek if I didn’t occasionally show my geeky side, right? The hubby and I are suffering from serious Archer withdrawal whilst working on our Archer cosplays, so I decided to make Pam’s favourite snack: BEAR CLAW! A bear claw is …
Happy Saint Pancake! Saint Pancake? Indeed! Sint Pannekoek is a Dutch pseudo holiday on the 29th of November. It was first introduced in 1986 in a Dutch comic called “Jan, Jans en de kinderen” (Jan, Jans and the kids). Grandpa and the kids didn’t feel …
I’m getting more and more into combining tasty recipes with geeky stuff. That’s why I am sharing this recipe for Black Forest Cake from the Portal games with you today. Black Forest Cake is a chocolate whipped cream cake with a cherry filling, originating from …
