As a lot of you might have read this week in the press Elke Vandormael is opening the first gluten and dairy free bistro. How great is this? We were lucky to have Murni dinner last april at Coffeelabs. Coffeelabs a nice coffee bar in Antwerp where you can have lunch, the offer great quiches,…
Roasted Grapefruit with cinnamon
Another very easy breakfast recipe. When you wake up, run to you kitchen and preheat your oven at 200°C. Then go and have you shower, brush your hair, get dressed or whatever you do before breakfast. Before you start making your coffee, juice or tea you cut a grapefruit lengthwise in two halves. Sprinkle them with…
Meatballs in tomato sauce
With autumn around the corner I start to crave for comfort food again. This is a great recipe and I think every family has it’s classic version. I always roasted my meatballs in the oven and then added a fresh tomato sauce. Last year I have made a Spanish version called albondijas with a red…
Chocolate Quinoa breakfast
As you might have read in my previous posts I have eaten no sugar in September. To accomplish this I needed to be quite inventive about breakfast. Lunch and dinner were ok but what is breakfast without granola, toast of waffles? I came up with this easy recipe, based on my Sunday Morning Quinoa but…
Great salad with sweet potato, carrot and buckwheat noodles
As you may or may not know we have rented an apartment at the Belgian coast this summer. A nice apartment at a nice location but with a tiny kitchen and an even tinier fridge. When we went to the market on Saturday we bought a lot of goodies, fresh fruits, vegetables, waffles and I…
Charlie’s in Antwerp: the best coffee I’ve had in ages…..
For today’s post I would like to share a nice new breakfast joint/ lunch room / coffee bar I have discovered in Antwerp last week: Charlie’s. This place was opened a couple of weeks ago by a young entrepreneur. After her studies she decided she wanted to pursue her dream and so Charlie’s was born….





