Rose Cantine

This is a very delicious and easy dish to make. It’s enough for four (hungry) persons and with the couscous, can be quite filling. If there are only two of you, it should last for about 3 dinners. You can adjust the spiciness by adding more (or less) cumin and paprika. Serve with harissa (a [...]

I found this butter at our local fromagerie “De Kaaskamer” (Runstraat 7, Amsterdam). It is very good butter. Hard to go back to the ordinary stuff in the supermarket.

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I like to have tapenade in the fridge at all times so if there’s no food in the house, I can just get a good loaf of bread from the local bakery and enjoy a decent meal. Here’s my recipe for tapenade.

500 g green or black olives, depitted and ground in a food processor
1 piece [...]

The best places to hang out in the Provence are the tiny hilltop villages unpopular with tour buses, probably because there are no parking lots and the streets are too narrow. If you’ve had it with Gordes and Roussillon, go to Lurs and Lacoste.
Lurs is close to the monastery of Ganagobie and is so tiny [...]

Spaghetti with cherry tomatoes is my favorite pasta dish for when I don’t feel like cooking (because it’s hot or I have no time or I’m just lazy). It’s critical to use the best olive oil you can find, plus fresh basil (grow your own if you can) and for the cheese, either real Parmigiano [...]

There’s nothing like fresh pasta and I don’t bother eating pasta unless it’s fresh. Only if I’m starving and there’s nothing left in the house do I resort to the dried kind.

250g strong flour
250 g semolina flour
3 large free-range eggs
8 egg yolks

Place the flours in a bowl, mix, then pour onto a clean surface. Make [...]

One of the delights of staying in Provence is the food: freshly made tapenades from good olives, anchoïade (an anchovy and garlic dip for crudités or toast), olive oil, delicious salads and tapas, local cheeses such as Banon cheese, Cavaillon melons, cherries, white aubergines, deep-fried courgette flowers, very sweet tomatoes, more than five varieties of [...]