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This month I will be making 30 Sorted food recipes within 30 days in honour of their app launch and to challenge myself to become better, more involved and to practice food photography

Day 30: Italian Beef Wellington 

The last day of the challenge! From the beginning I have said I would make a Beef Wellington, so that is what I made. 

Beforehand I was a little afraid. This could go great but I could also go horribly wrong. Luckily for me it went awesome. It tasted like a little bit of heaven wrapped in some pastry.

Now that the challenge is over all that is left to do is write a closing post tomorrow and all will be done. Loved the experience of the last 30 days. I learned so much and tasted some amazing dishes. Maybe I should make this into a yearly thing and get people to join me next year. Who is up for some cooking?

Ingredients: 8 Got my meat at the butcher and it was quite expensive, but so worth it.

Snacking: -

Assembling: 8 Took my time making sure everything was right, and it payed off.

End result: 10 I can only say: YUM!

This month I will be making 30 Sorted food recipes within 30 days in honour of their app launch and to challenge myself to become better, more involved and to practice food photography

Day 29: Beer can chicken

It is almost the last day of the challenge! With the finish in sight I grabbed myself some chicken and a beer can to make this lovely BBQ-dish from Food with friends. 

I didn't have a BBQ, but it tasted just as great out of the oven. It was crispy on the outside and the meat was lovely moist. It is so simpel, but sure to impress when making dinner for friends. 

Ingredients: 9 So simple and everything is readily available. 

Snacking: -

Assembling: 10 Just put everything in and on the chicken. 

End result: 9 Tastes amazing, but I really want to try the BBQ version sometime.

This month I will be making 30 Sorted food recipes within 30 days in honour of their app launch and to challenge myself to become better, more involved and to practice food photography

Day 27: White chocolate rocky roads

When going somewhere new I like to use food as a bay to meet and talk to people. I wanted to do so during a wedding-weekend with this white chocolate. Sadly I started too late and it wasn't ready by the time I needed to go.

To me food is the best way to bond, almost everyone loves it and is willing to try something new. Just ask for their favourite food or what they would make to impress you and you will have new friends in no time. I met some of my best friends through macaroons, cookies and cupcakes.

Ingredients: 7 (+1) I am allergic to coca so I can't really have anything with chocolate, because of that I almost never cook with it. These get a bonus point for using white chocolate (which I can have).

Snacking: -

Assembling: 7 Everything in a bowl and mix it.

End result: 9 Looks lovely and tastes amazing (a bit heavy though). Will make this the next time I am going something new.

This month I will be making 30 Sorted food recipes within 30 days in honour of their app launch and to challenge myself to become better, more involved and to practice food photography

Day 28: Cucumber strip salad

After being very unhealthy  during an argentinian wedding-weekend I needed something healthy to kick my workweek of. So during lunch I made the cucumber strip salad. 

From home I brought the sauce and made a small walk to the supermarket for cucumber, coriander and radishes. The smell of the coriander brought out a lot of colleagues wanting to know what I was making/eating.

This was so easy and I love having a fresh lunch. This dish will definitely find it's way back to work.

Ingredients: 8 The sauce ingredients were at home and the rest I bought at the store around the corner from work.

Snacking: - No time for snacking

Assembling: 9 Just one plate and no mess

End result: 9 Looking forward to making this again.

This month I will be making 30 Sorted food recipes within 30 days in honour of their app launch and to challenge myself to become better, more involved and to practice food photography

Day 25: Frosted parsnip cake

With the sweet taste of the spiced apple cupcakes still in my mouth I started working on the frosted parsnip cake. I choose this dish because I never used parsnip and I liked the idea of using a vegetable in a sweet dish.

I was very pleased with the end result. It tasted lovely and without the frosting it wasn't even that sweet, which was good. The grilled parsnip strips on top it made it picture perfect.

Ingredients: 7 Had to look around for the parsnip.

Snacking: 7 Tip: Parsnip isn't that nice raw

Assembling: 8 Just like a regular cake, just add the parsnip shavings.

End result: 8 Tasted great. I just don't want more than a small piece, it fills you right up.

This month I will be making 30 Sorted food recipes within 30 days in honour of their app launch and to challenge myself to become better, more involved and to practice food photography

Day 24: Spiced apple cupcakes

After the horrible piping on day one I wanted to make another cupcake recipe. This time it were the spiced apple cupcakes. With eight cupcakes I was able to pipe a few really nice ones. After this challenge I will need to keep practicing, but I have a feeling I will one day get good enough to be able to make these a gift.

Apple and cinnamon go together amazing so any recipe with those two ingredients is bound to be good. This one didn't let me down.

Ingredients: 9 Everything was around :)

Snacking: 7 Tried the apple which tasted very nice as well as the batter. The frosting was one of the best I tried yet.

Assembling: 7 It keeps getting better :)

End result: 8 Very lovely only next time I will double the batter or make half as many, because the cakes were a bit small.

This month I will be making 30 Sorted food recipes within 30 days in honour of their app launch and to challenge myself to become better, more involved and to practice food photography

Day 23: Mushroom risotto

Eating for me is not only smell and flavour but also a lot of feeling. The way food feels when you first put it in your mouth and than when chewing it. 

There are few food feelings that make me more happy than the feeling of a scorching hot risotto. This one was even better with the crunch of the grilled parmesan. 

Ingredients: 8 Easy to find ingredients and a simple way to make the dish vegetarian.

Snacking: -

Assembling: 7 Risotto's are hard to make, but the oven part of this recipe made it really easy and almost fool-proof.

End result: 9 Smells great, tastes good and feels amazing

This month I will be making 30 Sorted food recipes within 30 days in honour of their app launch and to challenge myself to become better, more involved and to practice food photography

Day 22: Broccoli mornay

In the netherlands we eat a lot of broccoli, mostly because it is cheap all year around. I have eaten this vegetable a lot of different ways, but grilled with cheese was a new one I had to try. 

The sauce was still a bit runny when coming out of the oven, but it tasted amazing. The pumpkin seeds on top really finished off the dish with that little bit of crunch. 

Ingredients: 7 I could not find cheddar, but I could choose from a large selection of Gouda cheeses, from which I choose one with a lot of flavour that did still melt in a good way

Snacking: 10 I'm almost too ashamed to admit I finished the whole box of seeds.

Assembling: 8 Cook broccoli the normal way and add the cheese sauce.

End result: 8 Very tasteful. Next time I would use it as a side dish rather than dinner.

This month I will be making 30 Sorted food recipes within 30 days in honour of their app launch and to challenge myself to become better, more involved and to practice food photography

Day 21: Focaccia Bread

Sunday bakeday. With a full day open I looked for a recipe that took a little more time to make. 

After making this I can say that I will never knead a bread by hand ever again. It takes forever! I do not have any kitchen machine with dough-hooks, but I did put it on my wishlist ;)

The bread is very nice and would be lovely to impress friends with during a italian style dinner.

Ingredients: 8 Had to add balsamic vinegar to my fastly growing collection of oils.

Snacking: -

Assembling: 7 It takes forever but there is a lot of waiting also.

End result: 9 Lovely, tasteful and impressive

This month I will be making 30 Sorted food recipes within 30 days in honour of their app launch and to challenge myself to become better, more involved and to practice food photography

Day 20: Lemon and sage chicken

A good ending to a rainy summer day with this chicken dish.

I always love dishes that put chicken and lemon together, it makes it taste so fresh and it gives the chicken a real summer feeling.

Ingredients: 9 Everything was found in my cupboards or fridge. I even had some homemade mayonaise left from when I made the breaded mushrooms.

Snacking: -

Assembling: 7 I should pay more attention when reading the recipe through, now I had the chicken on a backburner and when zesting the lemon I almost pushed over the boiling pan with potato's.

End result: 8 A bit of a heavy meal for a summer day but very lovely anyway.

This month I will be making 30 Sorted food recipes within 30 days in honour of their app launch and to challenge myself to become better, more involved and to practice food photography

Day 19: Granola bars

Next week will be filled with day's that I don't have time to eat lunch or dinner until very late, so to get me to those moment I have made granola bars. 

I did them with a cheat, at the market I found a  cranerry mix with nuts, dried and candied fruits. I used that with my oats and it was so easy and cheap to make. This is definitely one I will remember for vacations and sport events.

Ingredients: 8 Easy to find and inexpensive.

Snacking: 9 Everything is edible and I even have some mix left to snack on while watching a movie.

Assembling: 8 A bowl for mixing and a tin. I also love it when there is almost no cleanup 

End result: 8 Tasteful and cheap alternative to the ones in the store.

This month I will be making 30 Sorted food recipes within 30 days in honour of their app launch and to challenge myself to become better, more involved and to practice food photography

Day 18: Pork kofta wraps

Do you ever get those day's: You come home from work and even after almost a day of thinking don't know what to cook? So I decided to do the throw back thursday recipe whatever it was. 

I was not disappointed! The spicy koftas with the soft yoghurt and carrot dip. Most ingredients I still had in my fridge including homemade yoghurt, such a treat!

Ingredients:8 Simple yet lovely ingredients with the homemade yoghurt, coriander from the herb garden en veggies from the market last saturday this was made into a true feast.

Snacking: 7 Carrots, racket and cucumber, yum.

Assembling: 7 I love getting my hands dirty ;)

End result: 8 Nice, simple and great for a weekend lunch (next time that is)

This month I will be making 30 Sorted food recipes within 30 days in honour of their app launch and to challenge myself to become better, more involved and to practice food photography

Day 17: Pork dim sum

A few years ago I spend a christmas in China with some friends. While in Xi'an we had to try the dim sum and they were amazing! Tonight Kevin and I tried to get transported back to that moment by making some dim sum for ourselves. 

We started off by shopping in a chinese market for the steam basket, wonton wrappers and some other stuff they probably don't have at the supermarket. After a run through the "normal" supermarket (and a stop at the pub) we laid out our ingredients. As we looked closer at our ingredients and the video we saw that we matched our ingredients perfectly, we even choose the right wonton wrappers (as you can see in one of the photo's above).

With making the mis we had a big laugh and made a real mess out of Kevin's kitchen. Once out of the steamer it took all the control not to try one of them but first shoot some photo's. It was dead silent when we took our first bite, amazing! It brought back memories and feelings of that one place in that one street and a lot "yeah I remember" was said.

After all was gone and we looked into the kitchen we concluded that it was all worth it. Kevin even has three and a half bottle of soy sauce left for next time.

Ingredients: 6 A little bit harder to find the water chestnuts and chilli.

Snacking: 8 Loads and loads of carrot

Assembling: 6 You need to get the hang of the volding, but other than that it was alright. By taking it slow and be careful it was alright.

End result: 9 All of the memories! (one point deduction for the very salty sauce)

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This month I will be making 30 Sorted food recipes within 30 days in honour of their app launch and to challenge myself to become better, more involved and to practice food photography

Day 16: Chicken pad thai

Yesterday was a disaster so today I went for a little different cuisine with chicken pad thai. After work I went to the shop to get the final ingredients. When I asked the shop attendant where I could find the fish sauce he showed me instant cream sauce to put over salmon. In the end we needed four attendants before someone understood what I was talking about and could get some from the back of a bottom shelf. 

I don't know why but I keep being surprised by how easy most of the dishes are to make. And with making these simple dishes I can clean my head from work and the day by just focussing on making something tasteful and healthy. Keep them coming!

Ingredients: 8 Aside from the hard to find fish sauce everything was readily available in the supermarket 

Snacking: - none

Assembling: 8 Marinade, wok, heat. n No problem at al.

End result: 9 It was spicy, crunchy and had a great overall flavour. 

This month I will be making 30 Sorted food recipes within 30 days in honour of their app launch and to challenge myself to become better, more involved and to practice food photography

Day 15: Lazy one-pot pasta

After having a bad day at work I was ready for some nice comfort food that didn’t take to long to make. After a look in the fridge I decided to finish a lot of the vegetables I still had left in this amazingly lazy dish. 

The pre-cooking pan looked amazing with all the colours (as you can see in the picture). However I think I made a mistake while measuring the water, I kept the lid on the pan and was a little on the late side to turn the boil to a simmer. I ended up with overcooked pasta with little to no flavour. :( Luckily I got some leftovers in the freezer so now I’m enjoying fresh pasta with old sauce.

Ingredients: 10 All leftovers from the cupboard or fidge.

Snacking: - none

Assembling: 9 Cut it up and put it in a pan (you lazy ass).

End result: 4 It looked so good and vibrant, it smelled amazing too. Sadly had to heat up something else :(