Beaf salad and vegetable bread.
Minced fish soup
See food soup- Vietnamese style
Bún mắm tôm
Bò kho
Bánh tráng trộn
Gebakken zalm met vier verschillende soorten aardappelen
Nem chua bò
Cháo và gỏi gà
Saturday dinner
Bún thịt xào
Bún thịt xào
My kitchen
Đọt bầu chấm mắm trứng
My kitchen
Gà hấp cải
Kids cooking
My kids liked to cook by themselves. Yesterday they decided what they wanted to eat, and they made a shopping list.
They went to the supermarket and bought what they needed.
Broccoli soup and Thai salad was our meal. What a wonderful dinner!
Bánh lọt (dessert)
It has: rice flour, tapioca, tropical fruit, sugar and coconut milk
Rice noodles
Endive and Vietnamese basil are from my garden.
Dinner with sushi @home
Beside Vietnamese dishes, my family like sushi very much. It looks good, doesn’t it?
Gỏi cuốn- summer roll
This is one of our favorite “snack”. You can eat till your stomach full without worrying about calories.
Broken rice
Cơm tấm is a Vietnamese dish made from broken rice grains. “Tấm” is the name of the dish and also the kind of rice we use for it.
However, I have made this dish with wholegrain rice instead of
broken rice grains. It is a very famous and popular breakfast in the South of Vietnam. We eat this rice with baked pork, steamed egg with and the skin of pork. Don’t forget a sprinkling of fish sauce with sugar, lemon and chilli.
It is so tasty and yummy
Thick rice noodles with shrimps!
Spring comes, but it is still cold and wet. It is perfect to have a cup of soup for lunch in this weather.
My kitchen
Cooking is not my hobby, but I cook everyday, because I want my family to eat heath food.
Biological products is our preference. For example if I spend 2 euro on banana, I could buy 1,7kg non-biological, but I would take 1,2kg biological bananas. I choose for quality, not for quantity.
I shall introduce and show Vietnamese food to you, I cook it nearly everyday. Sometimes I also cook Chinese and Thai food.
I will discuss the ingredients, which I use for my kitchen and I give tips, but I will not write recipes, I‘m not good at it.
A march to March
Time to drink a cup of coffee, wait for new blossoms and eat fewer potatos.
Im always feel happy when seeing snowdrops. IIt means that the spring comes very close by.
I made this flower from Vietnamsese pancakes to tell myself that the sun will arrive soon.
Or eat this kind of salad. I love it. I can eat it every week.
How about this? It is bento and miso soup. 
Do not forget ice-coffee for the desert. Yup! It is still cold, but my husband likes ice-coffee in Vietnamese style. I will teach you how to make it in the next post.
Dough for bapao
Bapao is one of my family’s favorite food. Unfortunately, I could not make it. I followed many different recipes to make it, though I was not successful.
Luckily, my friend knows how to make it very well. She taught me how to make bapao.
Yesterday, I did it again with my kids. I was surprised at how good they were.
Hereby her recipe. 
Dough for bapao (Oratai Neng Meijers )
Ingredienten:
First dough (1)
– bapao flour: 750 gram
– sugar: 20 gram
– yeast: 20 gram
– water (warm): 400gram
Second dough (2)
– bapao flour: 300 gram
– baking powder: 10 gram
– olive oil: 100 gram
– sugar: 200 gram
– Water (warm): 80 gram 
A: First dough:
– Mix the flour and sugar together.
– Combine yeast with 80 grams of hand-warm water.
– Then mix the yeast paste into the flour.
– Mix well. Knead it 5 minutes.
– Let it rise in a warm place 1 hour, until the mixture becomes froth. 
B:
– Mix the olive oil, de sugar and water.
– Mix the flour with the baking powder*. Then mix this (50% *) with the first dough.
– After that mix it with the olive sauce.
– Knead the dough 10 minutes. It is wet, then add (50%*) of flour until it no longer sticks to your fingers.
– Roll every piece about 40 grams into a ball, roll out into a circle and fill with your meat mix.
– Let them rise for about 15 minutes.
– Steam them for about 12 minutes
Wish you success!
Thank you very much Neng.
Eating Habits- Introduction
Hello everyone!
I am planning to do research on how much a family spends on food each month.
I never paid attention to the cost of food before we had children. Whatever I felt like eating, I bought, and we often ate out.
Now that we have children, our expenses went up and looking for savings, I had a look at our eating pattern. Ater a short investigation, I expected savings could be made there, without sacrificing my cherished hobbies: cooking and eating.
I started not too drastically: 40% cuts. From €6-700, to €400-ish. Can one survive?
How about you? What do you spend on food and eating? You don’t mind to share your knowledge about hidden gems of good and cheap food, or have tips about efficient cooking and eating? Let me know!
I’ll start local: places in and around Zwolle where good food can be had for a good price.
For each others benefit I ask you all to give me advice on how to decrease the cost of our food, while increasing the quality of the ingredients and the taste of the result.
For everyone who likes to participate: I’ll send you my questionnaire (or we meet in person) and if you don’t mind, I use the results for a future blog post
So, what about you? Where do you buy your food? What do you pay for it? Are you happy about the quality and the way the products are produced?