Tag: pancakes

RECIPES
Sweet Potato + Maple Pancakes
Pancake Day is my absolute favourite Tuesday of the year... my only concern is whether to go sweet or savoury?! I have a life long and enduring love of classic crepes doused in sugar and lemon but more recently I find I just can't resist (and could eat pretty much any time of the day) ...
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Oat and Banana Pancakes -- just 3 ingredients!
We love pancakes! Every single type of pancake! And now we've found a recipe which our girls can make entirely on their own; only using three ingredients and hardly any washing up (hurray I hear you say). It's so simple I managed to enjoy a cup of freshly brewed coffee while I watched Florence make ...
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Boerderij Meerzicht
Nestled away inside the Amsterdam forest, Boerderij Meerzicht is a beautiful Dutch pancake restaurant and farm house that is  so much fun for the kids! Boerderij Meerzicht dates back to 1857 (before even the Amsterdam forest existed!) and during the construction of the forest in the early 1900s when many of the other farm houses in the ...
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Pancakes Amsterdam
What exactly are pancakes? In America they are thick and small and eaten for breakfast in stacks - the higher the stack the cooler the cowboy! In France they are called crêpes and are very large, thin and delicate and eaten for lunch or a snack from one of the little street stands. In Holland, ...
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Æbleskiver recipe
Æbleskivers are a type of (delicious!) Danish pancake... and while I don't have any Danish roots, my family has been making Æbleskivers for as long as I can remember. My mom even remembers her grandmother making them for her. I believe they are traditionally eaten around Christmas time, but in my family we eat them ...
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Ricotta pancakes with honey butter
I posted this photo on Instagram a few weeks ago... and then got some requests to share the recipe. So here it is! These fluffy ricotta pancakes are sooooo yummy. We make them nearly every weekend these days... (*Update! The recipe comes from Bill Granger's restaurant in Sydney where apparently his ricotta hotcakes are more ...
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Why pancakes?
As my eldest goes to a German kindergarten, he and his friends will be celebrating Karnival today -- going to kindergarten dressed up in their favourite fancy-dress (I think we can expect a fair few pirates, policeman and princesses!). I love how our family combines the traditions from both our cultures -- I think it ...
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Pancake Day
Pancake Day must be one of my favourite holidays.  Who doesn't love pancakes?  I mean every single culture has them, be they sweet or savoury. So to celebrate pancakes all over the world we wanted to introduce you to our favourite recipes. From Esther: In the Netherlands, pancakes are traditionally eaten for dinner -- in ...
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Pancakes!
What exactly are pancakes? In America they are thick and small and eaten for breakfast in stacks - the higher the stack the cooler the cowboy! In France they are called crêpes and are very large, thin and delicate and eaten for lunch or a snack from one of the little street stands. (This makes ...
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Like a cross between a donut and a pancake. What's not to love?! Here's the recipe that has been in our family for generations.
2 months ago
Decorating children’s bedrooms is an opportunity to be more playful and fun with accessories, colours and decor. Here are 10 tips for decorating a room that reflects your child and looks cute too. 💛
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Multiplication flowers! Get your kids to draw these pretty flowers and they will learn their math at the same time! A great creative activity.
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This is a fun and easy knitting project for kids. My mum taught this to me and my siblings and we used to knit our own slippers each winter. It’s a great project for beginner knitters, and easily adjustable for different sizes of feet.
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Check out the cool vibes of our Shop Up event in London in December!
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Our first live shopping event in Brooklyn was a great success. We loved seeing the best boutiques under one roof, combined with great food and fun activities...and some dancing! Hope to see everyone this year again on September 18th & 19th at 501 Union, 501 Union Street in Brooklyn.
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