http://www.kayotic.nl/blog Welcome to Kayotic Kitchen. Where food and photography unite! Wed, 23 May 2012 07:25:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.kayotic.nl/blog http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/wp-content/mbp-favicon/kayotic_favicon.ICO http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/cajun-chicken-sandwich http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/cajun-chicken-sandwich#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 07:00:01 +0000 Kay http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/?p=12650 For reasons unknown, I was craving a Cajun chicken sandwich. I didn’t want to just slap Cajun spicemix on my chicken, grill it, and call it a day. No, that would’ve been be too easy (and why easy when you can do it complicated, right?), plus, I wanted to add more flavor, throw in some crunch, heat and perhaps a vegetable or two. I quickly marinated the chicken in oil,...]]> http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/cajun-chicken-sandwich/feed 8 http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/project-jalapeno-vi http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/project-jalapeno-vi#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 09:00:26 +0000 Kay http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/?p=12672 Much faster than expected, my plants were a whopping 1 foot and ready for their last transfer. These transfers make me nervous. I had bought some buckets, and decided to transfer only one or two a day for the weeks to come. These pots are huge! Expensive, too, at the greenhouse store.   So I decided to look online to see if I could find cheaper buckets. I did. I...]]> http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/project-jalapeno-vi/feed 2 http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/ranch-roasted-potatoes http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/ranch-roasted-potatoes#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 06:15:05 +0000 Kay http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/?p=12638 And here’s another super easy ‘what to do with ranch seasoning mix‘ recipe: Ranch Roasted Potatoes, even though I think the name doesn’t fully cover the load. You see, I found a recipe for basic ranch roasted potatoes over at the Hidden Valley website and, tasty as it looked, I figured I could perhaps do some more with it. Up the flavors a bit. Oh, and just for the record: this...]]> http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/ranch-roasted-potatoes/feed 10 http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/summer-rose http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/summer-rose#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 06:30:51 +0000 Kay http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/?p=12605 I had way too much fun making this recipe. We were trying to create milkshakes for grown-ups. You know; something easy, tasty and colorful to serve on a hot summer’s day. A fun way to enjoy life’s little luxuries. Now, I’ll spare you all the unusual and sometimes even crazy combinations we tried over the weekend—it was hilarious—though I’m tempted to post one or two in the weeks to come....]]> http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/summer-rose/feed 20 http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/project-jalapeno-v http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/project-jalapeno-v#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:27 +0000 Kay http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/?p=12599 They’re growing alright. Perhaps a bit too fast, seeing as they are already developing flower buds. Technically I was told I could leave them on if the plant was at least 4 inches tall and chances were the first flowers would fall off naturally. I measured them and they were a whopping 5 inches. Not to shabby, huh?   However, I decided that they would probably be better off putting...]]> http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/project-jalapeno-v/feed 3 http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/potato-cauliflower-pea-curry http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/potato-cauliflower-pea-curry#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 11:11:36 +0000 Kay http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/?p=12588 You can never have enough cauliflower recipes, right? Here’s an easy, vegetable and potato curry that was born out of necessity when I wanted to make a cauliflower casserole one day and found myself having to cut away most of it because there were some serious brown spots only 2 days after I had bought it. Thanks a lot, Albert Heijn. I looked online for recipes and found an idea...]]> http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/potato-cauliflower-pea-curry/feed 8 http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/kitchen-utensils http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/kitchen-utensils#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 20:31:32 +0000 Kay http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/?p=12579 Some time ago someone told me I needed do a posting about my favorite kitchen utensils. I wanted to, I really did, but somehow I never got around to it. Until my new lens arrived today and I needed a subject and my kid couldn’t even be bribed into posing. So I figured “Kitchen utensils“, that’s a whole lotta willing photography subjects! Is that killing two birds with one stone...]]> http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/kitchen-utensils/feed 28 http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/ice-cream-sandwich http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/ice-cream-sandwich#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 08:00:51 +0000 Kay http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/?p=12542 When I think of life’s little luxuries, I envision coming home from a long day of work to my family, prop my feet up and relax while eating a pint small bowl of ice cream with my son and watch a movie. But, as relaxing as that may be, it doesn’t really translate into a recipe. But no worries, I came up with the next best thing: home-made chocolate chip...]]> http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/ice-cream-sandwich/feed 18 http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/project-jalapeno-iiii http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/project-jalapeno-iiii#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 17:51:39 +0000 Kay http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/?p=12566 If there was one thing I didn’t expect from this project up ’til now, it was that ever single seed I planted would germinate. That every single seedling I so carefully transferred, twice now, would thrive. I expected a few, if not many, to shrivel up and perish underneath my inexperienced hands. They didn’t. They don’t. Indoors, photo taken just now. And outdoors, in the foil house. I keep it...]]> http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/project-jalapeno-iiii/feed 6 http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/baked-cod-with-crispy-herbed-topping http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/baked-cod-with-crispy-herbed-topping#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 18:35:33 +0000 Kay http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/?p=12531 Just to show you how versatile the ranch mix I posted earlier this week really is, I used it as the starting point for this wonderful fish dish. I kinda like the sound of that, fish dish. Anyway, if you don’t like to eat food that’s heavy on herbs, this might not be the right recipe for you or you can always tone it down a notch. The flavors in...]]> http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/baked-cod-with-crispy-herbed-topping/feed 8