Cosmo Cooking

Hummus, Arabic: حمّص‎, stands for chickpeas, which is the main ingredient of this dish. In this recipe the basic recipe is presented and can be used to make many different variations. This spread is easy to make and is great in summer time when having a pick-nick or just as an appetizer. It’s rather quick to make and should take maximally 15 minutes to make, but it’s every time a pleasure to make. The difficult part is only finding the Tahini (sesami paste) in your supermarket or Arabic convenience store.

The basic recipe is already good, but it definitely should be … Continue Reading

Fish in a package … a gift on your plate.

After being a week with my son and haven’t had any fish, once back I was longing to eat again a portion of Dutch fish. Cod is such a delicious fish that is not farmed, but caught in a fair manner.

Ingredients
For these cod packets you need for 2 people:

• 350 gr cod
• 1 onion into rings
• 1 clove garlic chopped
• 2 tbsp finely chopped parsley
• 1/2 lemon sliced
• 2 sliced tomato
• 2 tbsp dry white wine
• Salt and pepper to taste

Preheat the oven to 200 °C. Tear 4 pieces of baking paper and put them double.
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Pumpkin soup. A wonderful Halloween or autumn soup. The color and the way of serving with cream and chopped herbs makes almost everyone happy. The sweet taste is what most eaters find delicious.

Ingredients

• 2 small pumpkins with thin skins (about 1.2 kilos together)
• 1 onion
• 1 leek
• 1 ½ l broth
• sour cream

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The vegetarian lentil tart/quiche

There we went for a weekend of sailing to the Netherlands. Up to Aalsmeer, which is not only known for the lake for sailing but also worldwide famous for the international flower market. On board of the polyvalk we wanted to go faster than the wind, but unfortunately the wind was not really present that weekend. Nevertheless, a very sunny weekend of being busy on the water requires energy and so a vegetarian quiche/tart was created. All the way … Continue Reading

The tabbouleh with just parsley, tomato and onion

Tabbouleh is one of those side dishes you taste, like, but never create yourself. Nevertheless, this simple dish is easy to make and amazes your table guests with a cosmopolitan meal. The recipe is all about the parsley in which you can decide for yourself your way of acidifying it and modifying. I choose for the balsamico vinegar, but lemon juice is also very good with it. Though you have to be greedy … Continue Reading

Beet hummus

Ingredients

• 1 large can of chickpeas
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 500 gr beet
• 125 ml tahini (sesame paste)
• 3 cloves garlic, crushed
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon ground cumin
• 3 tablespoons olive oil

Place all ingredients pureed possibly add a little water. Eat with fresh bread.

The province of Québec, Canada, will always have a place in my heart to keep. Travelling is great, but even better is to make yourself at home in a foreign country. So my stay in a wonderful Québecois family in 2001 brought along not only lasting ties to this wonderful place, but also great recipes. This is the famous tomato tart of grandmother Margot. It surprises with an interesting mixture of ingredients that combined result in a unique taste. As with most family recipes, the amount of ingredients is not fixed and you can dose them according to your taste. … Continue Reading