On Thursdays throughout the summer, Kanen Bij takes over Amsterdam’s Ten Katestraat to host close to a dozen food trucks for a street-food festival specializing in dishes from around the world. Framing the small street, the food trucks lined the curbs and surrounded a stretch of picnic tables in the centre of the street. Decorated […]
Archives for September 2014
Curried lentil and root vegetable soup
It was a chilly, rainy day today and I wanted something to warm me up from the insides out. I made this curried lentil and root vegetable soup with the hopes of eating something tasty, healthy and warming. I wasn’t disappointed! Time required: Approximately 1 hour from prep to table. Serves: 6-8 Ingredients: 4 shallots […]
Exploring Amsterdam’s Local Goods Market
I just love supporting local producers and checking out all of the cool things they’re creating. So when I heard that a local goods market was taking place over the weekend, I just had to check it out. The Local Goods Market at De Hallen, Amsterdam, takes place once a month and is filled with […]
Exploring Amsterdam’s Uitmarkt [Photo essay + video]
Amsterdam’s Uitmarkt is an annual festival which marks the start of the cultural season in Amsterdam. This year the festival ran from 29-31 August, and we stumbled across it purely by chance while exploring the city just days after arriving. The event, which filled the grounds at Museumplein, was an eruption of culture, with hundreds ofmusical […]
Let’s get cooking!
I have recently decided to start blogging about some of the food that I’m cooking. Over the last few years, my cooking dwindled due to having a tiny kitchen and because I was dealing with some major life changes and, frankly, my motivation just wasn’t there. With my recent move to a great new apartment […]
Did I find the world’s biggest mushroom in Amsterdam?
While wandering through Amsterdam, I stumbled across a market selling (what appears to be) every possible variety of mushroom. But what really caught my eye was a giant mushroom being carefully sliced into sections. Could this be the biggest mushroom in the world? Have you ever seen a larger mushroom? If so, where?