Rollende Keukens Amsterdam

Last Saturday I went for a day trip to Amsterdam with my sweet friend Linda (Linda Visser @Max Models). Obvioulsy there was some shopping to do, Amsterdam is well known and great for shopping, but first we head to pay a visit to the "Rollende Keukens". A small festival with all trucks selling there food at the Westerpark. It was sunny, such a beautiful day so perfect to walk around in the sun sitting in the grass and enjoying great food and drinks, plus we were hungry!!

Festival area

The Festival is free, the food is a bit expensive but affordable and their range is wide, from crepes, smoothies, sandwiches to fresh lobster, sushi, burgers, veggie burgers, BBQ, burrito's.. yup kinda everything!! So everyone will find something they will like.

Fresh Coconut

We started off with some fresh coconut, but damn all the food is yelling: "Pick me, pick me". You shouldn't eat for a week and then stuff yourself over there hahaha. There was some great BBQ-ed Chicken, some delicious Burrito's, fresh lobster.. tooooo much!! And then I saw the truck of the The Dutch Weedburger (click!)...

No more need to look around, we digged into it! This was something I wanted to try for aaaages but just never came across it when hungry. So choices were all of a sudden really easy! And we went for this baby, a delicious patty made from soy and see weed. The bread is enriched with chlorella and it's served with a delicious creamy sauce. It's all 100% natural, 100% healthy and very important no bullshit added. So, if you see one of these baby's on the menu list when you are on-the-go in Holland, they serve it at Haje Restaurants and on festivals as well please give it a try!

And after all the food porn we went walking it off and did some serious shopping ;-) We found some great vintage stuff, a few key items at Cos and a bikini for the upcoming job-trip to Madeira (lucky, lucky) and for my Holiday in Marrakech end of August of course.

Such a great day! 

The Real Deal Burger with a wonderful side salad

Yup this baby is the real deal, but waaaaaaay healthier. I mean you can make it even more healthy using lean turkey mince or chicken mince or make a veggie patty. But if you want something that aaaactually tastes like a damn good burger without all the fat and calories, here you go ;-)
Mine is all made from scratch and I can't give you real nutritional information because it depends what kind of beef you use. And I grilled my burger so that will trim off a loooot of fat as well, no added oil, so less calories than the package will be. Of course you don't have to make your own burger buns, but damn these are tasty, healthy and you know exactly what's in there. But probably they sell something similar in your local organic shop as well so if your lazy, just buy one ;-)

Ingredients
For the bun (7 buns)
400g spelt flour
5g yeast
few drops stevia
2 tbsp olive oil
240ml warm water
big pinch of sea salt
sesame seeds for sprinkling on top

for the burger (2 servings)
300g lean organic minced beef
1 tbsp Worcester sauce
1 tsp pepper spicy powder
1 tsp palm sugar
1 tsp cayenne
1 tsp garlic powder
good pinch of sea salt

Mix all the dry ingredients for the buns and the wet ingredients in a different bowl and combine with a mixer or your hands until you have a firm dough. Cover the bowl with a kitchen towel and let it rest for at least 15 minutes. Now you can pre heat the oven on 180 degrees Celsius. Combine all the ingredients for the burgers and shape them until you have 2 patties (tip wet your hands a bit this makes it way easier to handle the meat). Form little balls of the dough and place them on a sheet of baking paper on the rack in the middle of the oven and sprinkle with the sesame seeds. Bake them for about 20 minutes until done and slightly browned. Grill your burger in your burger medium, rare or well done (I like it well done, it's better to digest when the beef is done all the way). Serve your burger on your bun with whatever you like. For my burger I used: Bun, organic ketchup, caramelised onions, burger, goat cheese crumbled on top, lettuce, cucumber tomato, alfalfa and the other half of the bun and served it with some greens and a wonderful celeriac salad from one of my favourite new cookbooks: Le Pain Quotidien.

Celeriac? You probably think now, yes this ugly looking vegetable you probably have seen in your local shop is actually really yummy and healthy.

EXTRA RECIPE: For the salad you simply mix 2 tbsp mayonnaise (I use a reduced fat one) with 2 tbsp of Greek 0% yogurt, salt, pepper, agave syrup and 1 tsp turmeric. Combine until you have a nice dressing and then it's time to add half of the celeriac, shredded. Add a big hand of goji berries or dried cranberries and mix until everything is well combined, let it sit for at least 15 minutes so the celeriac and berries will soke up the dressing.

Enjooooy!!!!