Savory hangop

For the last week of August me and my family went to our summerhouse in France. My younger sister Clara and I love cooking together and so had taken upon us the task of cooking. Cooking and grocery shopping in France is so much more fun than it is at home! The farmers market is like a celebration of color, there are so many different kinds of vegetables, herbs, fruits. When you're used to shitty Dutch supermarkets you wont know what hit you. 

The star in this dish is not the soup, it's the topping. Instead of using creme fraiche we made a savoury hangop. Hangop is yoghurt that is strained from all the liquids, resulting in a very full, creamy and delicious substance, somewhat resembling greek yoghurt. The great thing about this is it tastes like it's extremely fattening, but it's only yoghurt. I like that.

So for dinner we made a grilled peppersoup with a savoury hangop and garlic croutons for topping. The soup was delicious, but the hangop was a real winner. Wanna try?

In the spotlight: Frozz

I'm a sucker for icecream. So when I was on a holiday some time ago I got to try frozen yoghurt and was immediately, irreversibly, totally and completely hooked. You can only imagine how bummed I was when I came back home and  discovered I couldn't get my daily portion of frozen lovelyness anywhere. With the opening of not one, but three (!) Frozz stores in Amsterdam that problem is now solved and everytime I walk past I just have to get some. And you know what? It's not even a guilty pleasure, since it's not even 100 calories a portion. So when you're in Amsterdam, find your closest Frozz shop and TRY. It's delicious. Serious. And no, it's not the same as yoghurt icecream. It's way better. And did I say it's low calorie?


I top it off with fresh raspberries, blueberries, almonds and walnuts. You know what, I think I'll try making my own soon.

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