Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Feb 9, 2012, 3:00 am
Matcha pannacotta Wake up, look at the alarm. Damn, it’s only 3 am… Too early… Go back to sleep. Wake up, look at the alarm… Hmmm, 5.30 am. That is late enough, isn’t it? I would jump out of my bed and run excited to my parents bedroom. Screaming something like ‘It’s my birthday, it�...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Feb 7, 2012, 3:00 am
Delicious couscous salad with puy lentils I can feel myself slipping.. Slipping into the muddy waters of the overweight and out of control people… Slipping because… well, because food is just too damn tasty… and I have little to no self-control. A pretty cupcake makes me drool, when I see a g...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Feb 5, 2012, 3:00 am
Pretty bundt cake I made this pretty moist and delicious bundt cake this afternoon. It came out of the oven around 4.30 pm, then had to cool and by the time I wanted to take a photo there was no light left whatsoever. That meant having to wait either until the next day or find an alternative soluti...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Feb 3, 2012, 3:00 am
My version... Let’s just do another easy one, I thought to myself when going through one of Donna Hay’s cookbooks. It should be a simple recipe but enough of a challenge in getting it right. Well… if only I had thought about that a little better.. I failed, I failed miserably in recreating ...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Jan 31, 2012, 4:10 pm
Meeta's interpretation of this lovely soup I’ve been really blown away by the results of this months challenge. We had a lot more participants this time then in december, which was no surprise, but still it makes me happy to see that you’re all having fun with the challenges! I’ve just prepar...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Jan 30, 2012, 10:29 am
Onion quiche with cheese Very slowly but surely there is some white fluff coming out of the sky. It’s not a lot but it’s cold enough for the white stuff to remain. The day has been grey and very overcast. Certainly not ideal for taking photos so that’s a bit of a nuisance really… Yes, ladie...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Jan 25, 2012, 5:52 pm
Quick and healthy.. O god no… I can hear you think… not yet another salad!! Yes, sorry, it is another salad.. Isn’t January the official salad month? The month where half the nation wants to lose a little here and a little there so turns to ‘boring’ salads? Now let me correct that immedia...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Jan 22, 2012, 4:26 pm
You didn’t think I had vanished from the face of the earth now did you? I’ve just been incredibly swamped with work ever since the new Year started. It’s weird, wonderful and a little troubling too. (knock on wood) It could be over next month, so I am taking everything I can to make up for pos...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Jan 14, 2012, 2:42 pm
Delicious and healthy salad with quinoa, feta and apple It’s no big secret that I love quinoa as it has been featured here a couple of times, as you can see with this delicious quinoa salad with courgette, the quinoa salad with pomegranate and most recently the pumpkin stew. I was reading a coupl...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Jan 11, 2012, 5:10 pm
salad ingredients The indecisiveness is driving me completely insane… While I thought I had made the final decision to get rid of my studio, every time I go there for work or something else, I get sad… really sad.. So now I am starting to question my own decision. Maybe there is another way to ...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Jan 7, 2012, 11:35 am
Potato cakes It’s been said before and I will say it again but sometimes the simplest things in life are also the best… Last night was our 6th session of our cooking club, with the fancy name of Kookclubbie (maybe we should come up with another name??) and it was great fun again, good cooking, ...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Jan 5, 2012, 12:00 pm
Delicious meal Now that the new year has started the term Living Leaner that Mona started on her blog Wisewords, takes on a bit of a double meaning for me. In fact, it takes on a triple meaning… I’m no different then anyone else around the world who wants to get fit and healthy in the new Year....
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Jan 3, 2012, 10:48 am
I’ve been having this one on my desk for a while now. I know Donna Hay is known for her light and airy photographs, but really, if you go through the magazines, you will notice that there are quite a few with beautiful dark and moody images. Maybe because it is winter, but I’m quite drawn to tho...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Nov 3, 2011, 4:00 am
Apple and caramel dumplings Autumn has arrived in full force. Days of cold and rain are interchanged with lovely sunny but chilly days. The leaves are falling and the ones that hang on with all their might, will soon succumb to the force of the wind and fall down to the ground. Autumn for me is als...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Nov 1, 2011, 5:44 pm
Bundt cake by Magda from Magda's Cauldron The results of the 2nd Donna Hay challenge is in… Either this was too complicated or all my Plate to Page friends were too busy doing something else.. In any case; there are less entries then for the first round but it’s quality that counts and not qu...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Oct 30, 2011, 9:59 am
Delicious and bright orange; Halloween cupcakes Halloween is not something we really celebrate here in the Netherlands. Well we do a little but there will be no kids knocking on our doors dressed up like ghosts or other scary creatures. Which is a shame really as I would love to see that! A few wee...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Oct 27, 2011, 3:05 pm
The ultimate comfort food When the alarms rings at 7 am I am already awake. Not wide awake but my dear old kitty friend Gizmo usually thinks that 6 am is a perfectly fine time to wake up and get fed. So around 6-ish she starts walking over my head, all the while miauwing loudly. She is getting a li...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Oct 26, 2011, 9:00 am
Cinnamon pannacotta with amaretto Decisions can sometimes be the hardest things to make. Do we hold on to things because it makes sense or because we are used to ‘having’ it? It’s the time of month to do my tax returns and that got me thinking about the cost involved in keeping my studio vers...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Oct 25, 2011, 7:18 am
Delicious with Indian spices; courgette with chickpea salsa If ever there is a season which lends itself particularly well to Indian flavors then to me that would be autumn. I love the spices used in the Indian kitchen, I love the hot curries (well, not too hot!), the garam masala mixes and I don�...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Oct 24, 2011, 3:00 am
Cleaning a piece of beef You know me right? I like to follow all sort of workshops, cooking courses or anything really as long as it is vaguely and somewhere remotely related to food. If you’ve followed my blog for a while you might even have seen the bloodiest post I’ve ever written on dissect...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Oct 22, 2011, 5:00 am
Delicious bruschetta with mushrooms and parmesan Sometimes, just every so often, I get these crazy ideas in my head… I’m sure you’re all a bit sick and tired of hearing what a wonderful time we all had at the Plate to Page workshop that took place all the way back in May (and wow, did you see...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Oct 20, 2011, 3:00 am
Juicy quince, red currants and vanilla quark.. I was with Meeta at the market in Germany when I spotted some quince. I had seen them somewhere before (on the internet!) but they are not a fruit you can easily find here in Holland, so I took them with me from Weimar to Holland. They keep forever any...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Oct 18, 2011, 4:00 am
Lemon sour bundt cake There are those things that you can almost predict will go wrong. As I had told you when announcing the Donna Hay Challenge nr. 2, I didn’t have time to make the challenge recipe prior to the actual challenge so I had to do it still, just like the rest of you and then shoot ...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Oct 17, 2011, 4:00 am
Delicious and quick quinoa salad I sit behind the computer and every once in a while (like every two seconds) I glance to my left where my trusted Iphone is hooked to the Mac… I’m installing the new software update version 5.0 on my Iphone 4 (no no not the Iphone 4s!) and it is taking a loooong...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Oct 16, 2011, 3:00 am
Sweet and juicy; this honey poached pear Let me start by confessing that this pear has not been shot in the proper season for poached pears… I shot it in the middle of summer as an experiment in lighting techniques.. I was very disappointed by the looks of my pear once poached and I will be doing...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Oct 14, 2011, 3:00 am
Mu shoo pancakes Yes, you are reading that correctly! In – what seems like forever and is probably close to it anyway – I’ve finally managed to complete a Daring Cooks challenge again! Whoohoo!! I love doing those challenges but sometimes it is just too time consuming to keep up with everythi...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Oct 11, 2011, 3:00 am
Glorious cakes on display The sweat slowly starts to trickle down my back as we stand in line at the Orangery restaurant in Kensington Gardens. It’s one of those late summer hot days and the waiting line for the restaurant is in the middle of the terrace, in the scorching sun… I feel the sweat ...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Oct 9, 2011, 3:00 am
Our few golden days of sunshine seem to have vanished and have been replaced by storm, rain and thunder. In fact while I am writing this I can hear the thunder rumbling in the distance… I’m always amazed at how quickly the weather patterns can change. A few days ago it was t-shirt weather and no...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Oct 7, 2011, 3:00 am
Salad with bull's blood leaves and halloumi As I have told you before I have a hard time resisting ingredients which I have not seen before and when they have an imaginative name like ‘Bull’s Blood’… well, there is only one course of action possible as far as I’m concerned and that is to ...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Oct 5, 2011, 4:00 am
Delicious greek salad Every single time we go to Greece the very first meal I order is a Greek salad. There is nothing better then the taste of those gorgeous tomatoes combined with the salty feta and the juicy cucumbers. Yes, even the cucumbers taste better in Greece! And then enjoying that while ...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Oct 4, 2011, 4:00 am
By Ilva - Lucullian Delights Wow….it seemed I have stirred quite a few discussions with this Donna Hay  challenge.. Which I guess is a good thing too. The discussion mostly centered around the question of replicating and copying someone style. Which is definitely a valid discussion and while thi...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Oct 3, 2011, 3:00 am
The first session of the Donna Hay Styling and Photography challenge did cause quite a bit of stir as there is a fine line between copying someone’s style and finding your own. I’ve said it a couple of times already but just to be absolutely clear on this; I am not trying to create little Con Po...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Oct 2, 2011, 4:00 am
The other day I was tweeting along happily and mentioned that I was going to be doing a babyshoot later that day. Mona, from the fabulous WiseWords, reacted if I could maybe write something about shooting a baby on my blog… I asked the parents for permission to use some of the photos and they obvi...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Sep 30, 2011, 4:00 am
Radishes at Borough Market The underground is warm and stuffy. People are huddled close and we can smell all cultures mingle together while more and more people get in and only a handful get out at the next station. Yes, we must be getting closer to our final destination. It’s still early on the ...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Sep 28, 2011, 4:00 am
Gorgeous chocolate brownies with a hint of lavender If you live anywhere near our tiny little country, the chances are that you had the same amount of sudden sunshine as we did. Just when we all thought summer was over (after having never really arrived) it all of a sudden gets to be gorgeous weath...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Sep 27, 2011, 7:59 am
... us, without blinking an eye, that these were chicken feet. Yes you didn't know but these ... used to play with as kids after cleaning the chicken, sort of got me spooked a little! I actually think that the part I ate must have been the chicken’s toenail… Now you have to admit… that ...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Sep 21, 2011, 3:00 am
Bright orange buckthorn Berries come in many varieties; elderberries, cranberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, red currants and sea buck thorn, to name but a few. When I was  a kid our favorite summer job would be to pick strawberries, raspberries and red currants at one of the local f...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Sep 20, 2011, 3:00 am
Healthy salad with feta, orzo and tomatoes Now you probably thought I would continue posting recipes for utterly decadent and unhealthy chocolate cakes, right? But no… sorry to disappoint; it’s time to get healthy again! Talking of which I have a question for all of you… do you have any real...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Sep 18, 2011, 3:00 am
Delicious blue chocolate cake! Technically this is of course not a blue chocolate cake but this was our blue version of the ‘Chocolate Jewels” photoshoot where you previously saw that amazing Strawberry chocolate cake. I am just very glad that Alex does not bake me cakes like this every week or...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Sep 16, 2011, 7:26 am
Pure decadence! I consider myself to be a positive person… No matter how hard life can sometimes be, I always try and see the bright side of things… It’s been a trying year in that respect with first Tom’s grandma passing and then his mum, just a few months later. Slowly but surely however,...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Sep 15, 2011, 3:00 am
delicious roasted pumpkin salad Outside leaves are turning red, yellow and golden; a sure sign that the end of summer is now official and autumn is making it’s way in. The fact that it feels like it has been autumn for a couple of months now doesn’t make it any less noticeable. It’s the wind ...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Sep 13, 2011, 6:00 am
Superhealthy and delicious salmon burger I told you a couple of times before that I’ve only learned to eat fish a couple of years ago. My parents where not the adventurous types when it came to cooking and my mum never really liked cooking in the first place. My dad never cooked much more then pa...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Sep 12, 2011, 5:00 am
This is a school example of how you should not be styling your pannacotta! Once upon a time there was this girl that had all these pretty pictures in her head. Beautiful images of wonderfully styled desserts, simple yet effective and made with just the flick of a spoon or in the blink of an eye. Bu...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Sep 11, 2011, 7:52 am
Spicy and delicious; this Indian salad with garam masala Ten years ago on this very date, the world was a different place. In a way I guess we were all ignorant of the evil that is hidding beneath the surface of certain individuals. It’s becoming a cliche but a lot of people know exactly what the...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Sep 10, 2011, 6:26 am
We all have our own heroes when it comes to food photography and styling and I’ve always been a huge fan of Donna Hay’s style and all the photographers she works with. It’s an uncluttered and beautiful style where the hero of the photo is always the food. Years ago, when I first started taking...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Sep 9, 2011, 3:00 am
Cucumbers? Call me weird but everytime I see an ingredient that I don’t know or have never seen before I can’t resist and I just have to buy it. Today I was visiting one of my favorite places to buy meat and vegetables which is the Lindenhoff in Baambrugge. I went there to get a good piece of m...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Sep 5, 2011, 3:00 am
When I was invited by Jenn from Jenn Cuisine to take part in the 7 links project I said yes without thinking long and hard about it. I’ve been blogging now for three years (wow, has it really been that long??) and blogging in itself has brought me so many things. New friends and a whole community ...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Sep 2, 2011, 3:00 am
Fresh whole spices for making garam masala Let me first start with a disclaimer here; I am gonna give you a recipe for garam masala, but I am convinced that there are 100′s, 1000′s of recipes out there that are possibly more authentic, better or whatever then mine. I don’t know much about the...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Sep 1, 2011, 2:47 pm
Delicious and healthy couscous salad The alarm goes at 6 am and I fumble around to hit the repeat button. I need just a tiny bit longer… Ten minutes later the damn thing is going on again and with a deep sigh I swing my legs over the edge of the bed. Gizmo – always on the lookout for people mov...
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Simone v. posted an article on Junglefrog Cooking - Aug 31, 2011, 3:00 am
I was invited by the lovely Sanjeeta from Lite Bite to make a guestpost for her theme of Awesome Food Bloggers Healthy Living Secrets… I think it’s a brilliant idea to ask bloggers on how to stay fit, because as a group we are definitely food lovers so a little healthy advice never hurts. Now as...
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