Vermeer

As part of keeping up to date with all our tours, we went to the Vermeer center in Delf.
http://www.vermeerdelft.nl/195.pp
Every year ...I learn more ... and appreciate & enjoy his work, more .
Apart from the fantastic cruising & and the FOOD on Absoluut2 ... This is one of my favourite thing in Holland.

last of the food for a while

Heat oven to 180 C
Mix all ingredients until smooth.
Pour into cake form (25 – 30 min.) : buttered & sugared: bake till just set:
Remove from oven … sprinkle icing sugar on top
Back in oven, till set :(8 – 10 min. more )
Remove from oven. Cool And when ready to serve
Rain sugar on top & blowtorch until dark (1-2 min)
Or brown under very hot grill.
Cool … serve…. Try NOT to eat it all.


I’m not sure why I am sharing our best recipes … I guess it is a long winter … lots of snow, outside… warm inside, & spending lots of time cooking.
‘cos in the summer we are out there cruising around, & chef has to do all the work.

Lemon Cheescake

Tarta de Queso

Serves 8 : TIME. Prep: 10 min: Cook: 45 min.


500 ml (2 cups) pouring cream
155 gm castor Sugar
300 gm cream cheese ,softened
5 eggs
180 gm. Ricotta.
125 gm. (1/2-cup thick plain yogurt) natural Greek.
Finally grated rind of 2 lemons.
Juice of 1 lemon
40 ml cognac

Great Bread

PERFECT BREAD. credit to Mr Lahey
Large bowl, add dry ingredients
4 Cups plain flour
1/4 tea spoon dried yeast
1 .5 teaspoons salt.
mix.
add 2 cups warm water.
Bring together. till no dry ingredients
Cover ( cling film) leave in oven 18 hours. ( 12 – 24)
Put mix on to floured bench fold in half & half again.
Put back in bowl for 2 hours.
Pre heat oven & covered pot ( or pan) 200C ( 220C also good)
Put mix out on to floured bench and then
Drop mix in to HOT pot / pan / pyrex…
Sprinkle generously with salt flakes & any seeds,
put lid on & back in oven at + 200 C (400F)
25 min. lid on 25 min. lid off
Remove from pot - cool – eat.

Actually. Have been working on a cheese cake to die for.

Well Ienka found this one, & the bread to follow.

See tomorrow.