Make your own dainty and edible cake decorations by crystallizing violets.

Traditional Dutch Apple Pie

Homemade ginger ale with lemon, lime and lemon grass.

What is better, making dulce the leche from condensed milk in a tin or from scratch with fresh milk?

Boterkoek, or Dutch buttercake is a dense buttery cake best served in small portions. It is easy to make and really delicious.

Rice paper rolls with shrimp, chopped shiitake, spring onions, red pepper and beansprouts. With and easy dipping sauce.

Preserve fresh herbs by making flavoured salts. Shown here is parsley lemon salt.

It is bitter orange season, so time to make marmalade. Using just bitter oranges, sugar and water. No extra gelling agent required.

Crunchy, smokey, salty, and 100 percent pork free. Use this foodhack to transform smoked salmon into bacon like rashers.

Make your own chocolate balls filled with salted caramel.

Enriched dough stuffed with raisins and currants and with a core of almond paste. It’s the ultimate Christmas bread.

A can of sweetened condensed milk and a teaspoon of spice come together to make these little soft toffees.

A big slab of spiced cookie that you break off into individual portions.

Healthy and warming veggie shakshouka. Chances are you already have the ingredients lying around.

Easy three ingredient toffee. No need for a candy thermometer.

Quick, healthy and full of flavor. This tabbouleh salad if stuffed with parsley, mint, bulgur and pomegranate seeds.

Two extra ingredients make this chocolate fondant even more chocolatey.

Give yourself a boost of probiotics with this frozen berry kefir smoothie. Includes instruction on how to make kefir.

Walnuts roasted with maple syrup and picadillo spice.

Caught in a state between fresh grape and raisins. These semi dried fruits are an explosion of sticky sweetness without added sugar.

Easy quince compote recipe. Grating the fruit significantly speeds up the process. Reduce the amount of water for a jam or marmello.

Labneh, or yogurt cheese is easy to make. Spiced up with harissa and rolled into parsley it makes a perfect spread or dip.