Event: Amsterdam Kookt

Amsterdam has another food festival, Amsterdam Kookt. But this festival doesn't only have loads of food trucks, there're also lots of live music performances and you can do workshops as well. Fun! I went there with my foodie friend Charlie, from Charlie's Kitchen and our lovers. The NDSM wharf is the perfect place for a festival like this. The old cranes, the graffiti and old buildings give it a great atmosphere. We had a great time with lots of sunshine, lovely food and drinks.

Now, on to the photos:

Snippets #66: Het Hoofdgerecht

Het Hoofdgerecht is a tiny food festival on Het Stenen Hoofd in Amsterdam. Emmy and I went there last year and we had lots of fun, so we decided to make it a yearly thing. This year we brought Joyce and Wendy with us. We had a lot of wine to drink, delicious hamburgers and we danced all night long on fun music from the 90's. I can't wait for next year, I love traditions like this. Enjoy these little snippets of our evening!

Event: Nachtkapers, Hoorn

English at the bottom! Because this about a future Dutch event. 

Vroeger stonden wij altijd op de camping in Opperdoes, een klein dorpje op een half uur rijden vanaf Amsterdam, en toen wij ouder werden deden wij vaak tripjes naar het nabij gelegen Hoorn, wat veel bruisender was als grote stad tussen de dorpjes waar wij heen mochten. Je kunt er namelijk heerlijk winkelen, eten en genieten van het  IJsselmeer. Een leuke plek om eens een dagje heen te gaan! 

Dit jaar is het nog veel leuker. Hoorn viert dit jaar dat het 400 jaar geleden is dat een ontdekkingsreis begon en Kaap Hoorn werd ontdekt. De hele zomer kun je van alles doen, zo staan er diverse evenementen gepland in het teken van dit moment. Er zijn speciale menu's bij verschillende restaurants en worden er speciaal Kaap Hoorn spelt-biertje getapt (zou dit ook een voedzamere bier zijn? Haha). Ook kun je bij IJssalon Vivaldi Kaap-Hoorntjes proeven.

NachtKapers 
Op zaterdag 13 juni vanaf 19.30u openen ruim 20 locaties gratis hun deuren tijdens de museumnacht NachtKapers. Elke locatie heeft een verrassende programmering en er is van alles te doen en te beleven. Kom virtueel de Kaap Ronden, geniet in het Julianapark van de heerlijkste smoothies en Street Food, kom kijken naar de korte fashion-show van Sepehr Maghsoudi en dans daarna mee in de Oosterkerk. Het programma biedt ook genoeg voor kinderen om te beleven, waaronder de Museum Stoomtram waar je zelf op een tram mag rijden of luistert naar verhalen over andere tijden. En blijf vooral hangen voor de Sail-off. Om middernacht eindigen we NachtKapers met een spannend spektakel in de haven. Vanaf Oostereiland of het Julianapark beleven we op een moderne manier nogmaals de uittocht van de expeditie, geregisseerd door Wouter Hakhoff. 

Ik ben super benieuwd naar dit event, vroeger wilde ik ook altijd op wereldreis, dus ik vind het super interessant om meer over deze trip naar Kaap Hoorn te zien. Ook kan ik natuurlijk niet wegblijven van smoothies en Street Food, als er wat te eten valt, ben ik er natuurlijk bij! Wie zie ik daar nog meer?

Photo: Floris Krelage

Oostereiland by night.

English

When I was younger we always went to a camping in Opperdoes, a small village half an hour from Amsterdam, when we were older, we always liked to go to Hoorn, because it was much more fun to go to a bigger city with lots of shops, restaurants or just enjoying the big lake (IJsselmeer). A fun city to visit for a day, or a weekend!

This year it's even more fun to go to Hoorn. It's been 400 years since they started a long exploration and discovered Kaap Hoorn. All summer long there are lots of events celebrating this moment. Restaurants serve special menu's and some of them serve a special Kaap Hoorn spelt beer (would this a be a more nourishing beer, lol!). At Icecreamery Vivaldi they have special Kaap-Hoorn ice cream biscuits to taste. You can get street food, smoothies, there's a fashion show, you can dance in the church (Oosterkerk) and lot's more. 

There's also enough to do with you kids, like visiting the historic steam train and listen to stories about old times. 

Event: The weekend of Rolling Kitchens 2015

The Weekend of the Rolling Kitchens brings an annual dose of outdoor mobile food fun to the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. The event is here for it's eighth edition from May 13th to may 17th. 

Mobile delicacies
During this (long) weekend, dozens of mobile kitchens descend upon the park in the west of Amsterdam to create an enormous open air restaurant! Food to suit every appetite is on the menu, with everything from fresh Italian pizza to sophisticated seafood dishes on offer. 

Hunt around for your favourite dish(es), pick up your order and relax under the sun (or later in the evening, stars) as you enjoy your food. There's no entrance charge for Rolling Kitchens and the food is designed to tickle the most culinary of taste buds without breaking the bank. 

Jummie, insects!

Trying 5 different 'bitterballen'. Truffle, beef, fish, goat cheese and chorizo. Delish!

The coolest record player ever!

Pulled pork, cole slaw and corn bread. Feels like I'm back in Brooklyn. Gotta love soul food!

Mr. Handsome

Delicious oysters.

Bacon and cheese burger from Firma Pickles.

Lemon curd in a jar! A perfect dessert.

Event: Culy Food Festival

Yesterday I went to Culy Food Festival with Joyce, when we first heard about this festival we immediately decided we wanted to go and bought our tickets and I'm glad we did! We had a great day, trying out lots of food and drinks. The festival was held in the Sugar City, in a beautiful old building in Zwanenburg. It used to be a real sugar factory and lots of it is still in place, amazing!

If you want to see more of this festival and see what we ate, click read more!

Event: We Love Smoothies!

Last Saturday I went to the We Love Smoothies workshop, organized by Claartje from Foodness and Daisy from ILoveHealth, powered by Body and Fitshop. Joyce and Linda joined me in the smoothie making and we had a great time.

There were lots of fruit products to work with. Body and Fitshop provided us with a big verity of super foods, Alpro provided the vegetable drinks like almond milk, rice milk, soy milk and more. Vita Coco made sure we've had enough coconut water to work with. Zespri provided us with kiwis and Kiemgroenten vegetable sprouts. Magimix sponsored the blenders we worked with and even provided some we could win!

Plenty of ingredients for our smoothies!

Claartje started with telling us about smoothies and an active lifestyle, she showed us how to make her famous Snicker smoothie, you can find the recipe on Foodness. It's full of protein and carbs, so perfect and delicious after a heavy workout. We made one ourselves and it was delicious!

Snicker smoothie 2.0 - DELICIOUS!

After the Snicker smoothie it was time for Inge (from De Bakparade) to tell us more about smoothies and loosing weight. Not reason why I drink smoothies, but really interesting nevertheless. Afterwards we were free to make our own smoothie. We made a green one and on our first try it wasn't really tasty, lol. So we added more sweet fruit until it was delicious.

Our green smoothie.

Before making the third smoothie, Daisy told us about the use of Superfoods in smoothies. Also an interesting topic. So we made our final smoothie one with lots of Superfoods, that one was the most delicious too!

Our pink superfood smoothie.

At the end they gave away a Magimix blender and I won! I'm so happy with it, it's so sturdy and it even has a smoothie setting. I couldn't wait to make another smoothie when I got home! We all got a great goodie bag too.

Yeah! I won :D

The goodiebag and the blender!

I had a great time making yummy smoothies with my friends, I already know a lot about healthy food, but I still learned a lot. SLA is a beautiful location and I'm already planning a lunch there! Anyways, it was a great way to start a saturday morning!

Event: Foodie meeting with Blog Society

Last saturday Blog Society hosted a foodie meeting for us food bloggers, to meet and greet the famous Leonie from Wat een studentje 's avonds eet (What a student eats for dinner). She just published her very own book with recipes. We all brought something to eat, so there was lots of delicious food to taste. Leonie is a super cute girl and it was super fun to meet her and ask for advice, tips and tricks. And her autograph of course ;). Keep on reading for more photos!

Event: Food Soul Festival, Amsterdam

Last weekend Wouter and I went to The Food Soul Festival in Amsterdam. A super fun festival, perfect for a foodie like me! Lots of food trucks, nice music and great company. The scenery was awesome, with the lights, the trucks and palm trees. Do you want to see what we've eaten, read on!

Event: Michelin star quality dinner at De Boekanier

Last sunday we (Wouter, Maikel, Lisette and me) went to a special event, right here in our home town, Zaandam. One of the local restaurants, De Boekanier teamed up with a Michelin chef, Timo Munts, to serve a Michelin star quality dinner (and lunch) for a very nice price!

For only € 45,- we got an amuse, a 4 course dinner with 2 different matching wines per course, table water and coffee. Good deal huh? If you want to see the full menu, read on!

Event: 909 festival

On may 31st I went to a really fun music festival, 909. Techno in the Amsterdam Forest. The recipe was the same as last year. One stage, top artists and an intimate ambiance. The weather was perfect and we had a lot of fun!

This was the line-up:

Here are some photos of the day!

Me, Wouter, Jeroen, Robin, Maikel and Lisette!

Fun with the mister.

With Joyce in front of the stage.

With Jens and Liset

Dinner! A delicious salami pizza slice. We had some fries too, oops! ;)