This week we have all the ingredients for a delicious picnic salad with endless combinations of tomatoes, cucumber and arugula. Quiche is delicious with salad, try incorporating the portobello, the somewhat pronounced flavor comes out well in with a creamy (cheese) filling for example. Tomorrow there is a vegetable garden day planned at Hoeve Biesland, you…
Following your Easter-weekend feasts you have lots of fresh yellows and greens to look forward to! Pair the sweet earthiness of golden beetroot with the sharpness of arugula in a spring salad. Or if you're still in the mood for hearty dishes, why not make a creamy leek and mushroom pie? Eet smakelijk! We…
Welcome to the sustainable spring market in the Gymzaal! Where: De Gymzaal, Witte de Withstraat 127, 2518 CS The HagueWhen: Saturday 8 April from 13.30 - 16.30 Including information about The Hague Food Council, Ons Eten, Land van Ons, Lekkernassûh, the gymzaal's renovation, magazine Genoeg (about consumerism), plants and other fine things for sale,…
Turn on the oven. This week in your package you will find vegetables that become deliciously crisp in a oven dish, such as parsnips, yellow carrots and eggplant. Together with some vine tomatoes, olive oil and herbs of your choice, a delicious dish. Enjoy! We hope you like this package again, please don’t forget…
As you may have seen or heard, Lekkernassûh has recently launched a new website. All the information about Lekkernassûh in a new look! We are excited to show it to you. There are also a few new elements in the website. We briefly list them below: Duo Language 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 We have made the…
🌿 This weekend, a good number of Lekkernassûh participants and volunteers visited Food Swamp The Hague. A food swamp, what exactly is that? Helene, together with Hannah and Suzanne, explained that to us on Saturday morning. All this while enjoying a delicious cup of tea including water mint and water parsley from the food…
It’s beginning to look a lot like spring! Time to bring cucumber back to your salads and sandwiches. This week the package also contains wild (or ‘coarse’) spinach, which is only harvested when the leaf is fully grown. Like regular spinach, wild spinach is rich in nutrients (especially iron) but its leaves are larger and…
This week another package full of great flavors and some lesser known vegetables like JSauerkraut this week! This cabbage has already gone through a particularly spicy fermentation process. Want to get started fermenting vegetables yourself? You can! Let yourself go with the radish, turnip or carrot.Important: We will receive the sauerkraut in large containers,…
In Zuiderpark (300 m2), a group has started the Netherlands' first so-called Food Swamp. Here, they are experimenting with wet cultivation in the peat meadow area and investigating alternative earning models for agricultural entrepreneurs. This year, they plan to offer the first harvest of unknown edible crops (such as water mint, licorice shoots and…
This week another package full of great flavors and some lesser known vegetables like Jerusalem artichokes, radish and carrot parsley. Sometimes it takes a few minutes to think about what to make with these. Delicious Jerusalem artichoke chips from the oven, a fresh salad with radishes and a hot soup with parsley root. Just…
Dear people, After a short winter break, De Volkskeuken's Wednesday dinners are restarting. At a new location at Helena van Doeverenplantsoen 3. For the first few weeks, the theme is Cucina povera and the table of abundance. The dinners are on a donation basis and you can join us every Wednesday from 18:00. More…
Who says winter vegetables are boring? This week, the vibrancy of the colorful veggies is sure to pleasantly surprise you again. We have the deep shades of the carrots, the soft pink-purple of the turnip and the lively greens of the leek and turnip greens. Turnip greens are a sure sign that spring is…
Next week you may have to wade through the muddy crust of salsify for the last time this season. In English-speaking countries, the salsify is also called the “oyster plant” because you can recognize a little bit of an oyster-like flavor in it. Cherish your last moments with winter vegetables because spring season is…
There’s some purple power to look forward to next week. Red cabbage gets its glorious hue from the natural plant pigment anthocyanin, which contains antioxidant properties. Will you rustle up a colourful, crunchy coleslaw salad, or simmer it with some apple and fennel seeds for a hearty side dish? And if you’ve never tried…
Garlic is generous in flavor and has the power to make your dishes shine this week. Did you know that fresh garlic is slightly softer in flavor than the dried variety? It’s ideal for incorporating raw into a celeriac salad or in a sauce made from puffed celeriac. The preparation of this winter gem…