Happy 4th of July to all my American friends! Guess what I’ve done this weekend aside from feeling a bit under the weather and sorry for myself. No, go on… guess! Yup, I’ve been making chili in the middle of summer. Still haven’t figured out if that means I’m pulling a Charlie Sheen or that I’m just a hardcore foodie. Either way… What prompted this chili fest was the discovery…
I’ve been harassed, solicited, stalked and followed by numerous people demanding a Speculaas spice recipe. Oh, you know who you are! Now I could either go in hiding—wait for them to get bored with me and find another Dutch blogger to badger—or I could suck it up and try to come up with something to get the angry mob off my back. Preferably before they’d break out the pitchforks and torches. I…
It was somewhere around 5:45pm today—we had just finished a fancy dinner of skillet baked potatoes, fish sticks and peas & carrots (sick kid’s choice)—when the doorbell rang. Package delivery! I took the package, looked at it and that’s when it happened… “I had died and gone to Lawry’s heaven!”. A few weeks ago I noticed something disturbing; my lemon pepper stash was shrinking at a rapid pace. Tried to locate some online, but…
When drooling over photos at foodgawker a couple days ago (they must be sick of seeing my photos there: 22 of the 48 ‘most gawked in the last 7 days’ photos were mine. Crazy!) I was inspired by some of the potato photos I saw. It was 9am on a Monday morning when this recipe popped into my head. Not the best time ever. It hit me totally unexpected. Heck,…