Healthy Mini Mexican Style Breakfast Quiches

So it turns out the 6-hole muffin tin I bought yesterday is of abysmal quality. So the breakfast quiches I made this morning didn't quite turn out the way I wanted to (literally, part of the bottom was left in the tin). But I didn't want to keep this yummy and healthy recipe from you so here we are. That'll teach me not to buy €2,50 tins! I'll have to open my wallet for a more expensive one - but it'll be so worth it..

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Kaiser Rolls with Poppy Seeds and a Crispy Crust

After two weeks of absence, I'm back! I had absolutely no time to bake, something which doesn't happen too often. But take an essay, a master's thesis and moving to a different city and your time will be very, very limited. I haven't finished the essay, but at least I got a start on it, plus I have started reading for my thesis. For those who are curious, it's going to have something to do with medieval manuscripts, those who read my "About me" shouldn't be too surprised about that.

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New Year's Eve or "The Feast of Frying"

Pineapple Fritters

First of all: Happy New Year! I hope you had a great New Year's Eve and that 2014 will be a fantastic year for you all. I spent most of New Year's Eve with my head above a frying pan, as is tradition here in the Netherlands. Well at least it is tradition for me, I reckon most people get their fried treats from a "kraam" (stand) to avoid the deep-fried fumes. This year I baked for three families, including my own, which meant I had to fry up a LOT of oliebollen (Dutch doughnuts), apple and pineapple fritters. Oliebollen are made with a yeasted dough, and eaten chiefly on New Year's Eve, when the combined population of the Netherlands (17 million people) eat over 50 million pieces of the fatty snack. They are also eaten in Belgium, but not in quite such large numbers. Oliebollen are also sold throughout the rest of the year as well, usually on fairs and markets. Every year, Dutch newspaper AD has an "oliebollentest" to determine which stand fries the best oliebollen. Winning the title means large crowds queuing up in front of the lucky stand to get their hands on the best "bollen". 

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