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Around the World – The Test Kitchen – Cape Town, South Africa (May 2016)
The third stop and highlight in our culinary journey in South Africa was lunch at The Test Kitchen in Cape Town.
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Around the World – South Africa – Cape Town Eats Walking Tour
After last’s year venture in Bali into getting to know the local cuisine first hand, we were unfortunately not able to book a Cape Malay cooking course, but did stumble on something better!
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Around the World – The Tasting Room – Franschhoek, South Africa (May 2016)
We continued our culinary journey in South Africa at The Tasting Room at Le Quartier Français.
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Around the World – Rust en Vrede Restaurant – Stellenbosch, South Africa (April 2016)
We started our culinary journey in South Africa with the “Estate Experience” at Rust en Vrede Restaurant.
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Around the World – South Africa – Intro
It has been quiet on arcisfoodblog the last couple of weeks as we were on holidays.
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Restaurant Scherp – Middelburg (April 2016)
Last weekend we visited in Middelburg, Zeeland and took the opportunity to discover a local restaurant with my brother and his wife as they made a booking at Restaurant Scherp.
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Bolenius Restaurant* – Amsterdam (Feb 2016)
With the kids away the entire day on playdates/birthday parties, we had some time on our hands to have lunch with Koen and Erica at Bolenius Restaurant in Amsterdam.
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De Bokkedoorns** – Overveen (Nov 2015)
As part of the “Heerlijk10Daagse” Restaurant Festival, we had a 4-course lunch at De Bokkedoorns 2 weeks ago.
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Marley Spoon Food Box Review – An Update
Another month into our food box subscription from Marley Spoon. Some hits and misses: here is a selection of pics and general observations.
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Marley Spoon Food Box Review
Three weeks in our food box subscription from Marley Spoon. So far, so good: here are some pics and review.
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Burger Week: #2: The Gård burger @ Gård Nordic Kitchen, Amsterdam
Burger Week at Arcisfoodblog: 6 posts on some of the more remarkable burgers I “encountered” in the past couple of months; either homemade or in restaurants.
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Around the World – Morocco – Chickpea Tajine with Couscous
I found some fabulous M’Hamsa Couscous (hand-rolled and sun-dried for a toasted flavor) and tomato passata from Les Moulins Majoub. Time to get my tajine out and make a stunning veg-packed dish!
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Around the World – Spain – Salmorejo Cordobés
Ask anyone to name a cold tomato soup from Spain, and the reply will be gazpacho. However, salmorejo is a fantastic thick tomato soup from Córdoba that is eaten cold too.
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Lakrids A by Johan Bülow
“According to many, Lakrids A is instantly addictive”, it says on the label….
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Around the World – Bali – Cooking Class @ Bumbu Bali (Aug 2015)
In one of the episodes of Masterchef New Zealand, the contestants flew to Bali for a difficult challenge involving genuine Balinese cuisine. The restaurant involved was Bumbu Bali and we booked a full day cooking class there.
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Around the World – Locavore – Ubud, Bali (Aug 2015)
Just after booking our holidays to Bali, I started browsing for restaurants in the places we would be staying. Locavore in Ubud always popped up in the top lists of restaurants.
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Around the World – Bali – The Local Food – part 2 (Aug 2015)
This the second post about some of the Balinese and Indonesian food we had during our holiday in Bali.
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Around the World – Bali – The Local Food – part 1 (Aug 2015)
As said, we spent about 2 weeks in beautiful Bali. This is the first post about some of the Balinese and Indonesian food we had.
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Around the World – Bali – The Burgers (Aug 2015)
This summer holiday we spent about 2 weeks in beautiful Bali.
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Around the World – Fuerteventura, Spain (May 2015)
The last couple of weeks were a bit slow on posts, but that was mainly due to holidays. We went to Fuerteventura; so,😎🌴, loads of ☀️.🍷, 🍻, and 🍴of course.
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Aan De Poel** – Amstelveen (April 2015)
As part of the Restaurant Festival in April, we also had a 4-course all-inclusive lunch at Restaurant Aan de Poel in Amstelveen.
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Jaimie van Heije Restaurant – Ouderkerk a/d Amstel (April 2015)
As part of the Restaurant Festival, we had a delightful 4-course all-inclusive lunch at Restaurant Jaimie van Heije last week.
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Latkes with Smoked Salmon / Mollydooker’s Carnival of Love Shiraz
This Saturday we went over to Koen and Erica’s for dinner and to taste one fabulous shiraz from Mollydooker wineries that he picked up at Aixvinum in Aachen, Germany while on holidays “in the neighbourhood”. I suspected that Koen planned their whole holiday around this, but it actually wasn’t…
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Around the World – Adelboden, Switzerland
We spent a week skiing in Adelboden, Berner Oberland, in the southwestern part of Switzerland. Close to the French and Italian borders, their cuisines are interlinked; so huge portions, loads of cheese, vast slabs of meats and dried meats 😉
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Around the World – Hotel Becker’s – Trier, Germany
Last week, we were off skiing in Switzerland. We first had a stopover in Trier as we wanted to cut the 900km trip in two as we could only start driving at 15.30 because of school.
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