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Chef Karel

Chef Karel Chef / Gardener/ Digital Creator Experienced Executive Chef with passion for organic gardening.

24/01/2025

What’s for Lunch today?

To surprise your loved one (or anytime) on Valentine’s Day, February 14

Heart shapes Boxcar Cottonbell Cheese (a local cheese farm from Cedar Grove, NC)
Topped with dried Apricots mixed Almond flour and baked on 375F preheated oven and served with fresh crusty La Miche Bread.
Got all item at Weaver Street Market in Hillsborough

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23/01/2025

Prepare Valentine’s dinner for your lover 🧡🩵💛❤️💜

Chef Karel

22/01/2025

What’s for dinner tonight?
We have snow on the ground and the temperature outside is 18F which is pretty rare for the Piedmont area of North Carolina.
Time for some wholesome winter food! In the Netherlands, where I’m from, most winter dishes have Potatoes as a base and are cooked together with different kinds of Vegetables like Carrots & Onions (Hutspot) or Potatoes with Kale (Stampot) and often combined with smoked sausage or boiled brisket of Beef (klapstuk)
My version is with Potatoes & Brussels Sprouts 1 : 1 Cooked together in water until done, strain and smash them with Butter until smooth, bring to taste with nutmeg, salt, pepper.
Served it with thinly sliced beefsteak (from our Mexican store /butcher here in Hillsborough) and stewed with sliced onion, season with sherry vinegar, bay leaves, garam masala, salt, pepper, tomato puree and some beef bouillon and let simmer together for 1 hour, thickening with au jus powdChef Karelon warm plate, see picture.

Enjoy or eet smakelijk.

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09/01/2025

It’s getting colder here in North Carolina, This Dutch Green Pea Soup will keep you warm!

Eet smakelijk

Chef Karel

Recipe

1 lb Pork Bones or Split Pork Feet
1 lb Country Ham Hock or Smoked Ham Hock
2 quart of Water
1 ea Smoked Beef Sausage, Hillshire Brand, plastic removed
2 cup Dry Split Green Peas (washed and check if it is stone free)
3 ea Bay Leaves
2 tsp Celery Seeds
8 ea Cloves
8 ea Black peppercorn, Crushed
1 1/2 cup Potato, Peeled, Washed, Brunoise
2 cup Leeks, Washed, Brunoise
1 cup Celeriac, Peeled, Brunoise
1 cup Celery, Peeled, Brunoise
1/2 cup Lovage, Washed, Chopped
1/2 cup Parsley, finely Chopped
All the sliced Smoked Sausage
All the sliced / diced Ham Hock (use sliced for the Pumpernickel Bread)
1 pack of Black Pumpernickel Bread
2 tbsp soft Butter

Method

* Cover Pig Bones or Feet with Water and bring to a boil
* Discard boiling liquid and add again Water, Ham Hock, the Split Green Peas, Bay Leaves, Clover, crushed Black peppercorns and Celery Seeds
* Bring to a boil and let simmer for 45 minutes
* Remove the Pork bones but leave the ham hock in
* Add the Potatoes, Celery, Celeriac, Leeks and Smoked Sausage
* Simmer for another 30 minutes
* Remove the Ham Hock and Smoked Sausage
* Thinly slice the Ham for Pumpernickel bread and dice the leftover and put back in the soup. Slice the smoked Sausage and return to soup
* Add Lovage and Parsley
* Taste and adjust with Salt and Ground White Pepper
* Keep warm until served or transfer to fitted container, cover, date and refrigerate until needed or freeze.
* Best if served with Buttered Pumpernickel Bread topped with thinly sliced Ham Hock
* Eet smakelijk!

Chef Karel

01/01/2025

Apples on a scale from most tart to most sweet

01/01/2025

Veal Croquettes with deep-fried curley Parsley and Dijon mustard
Kalf vlees Kroketten met gefrituurde Peterselie en Dijon mosterd

27/12/2024

Repost from last year, Enjoy!

Oliebollen:

Traditional served in the Netherlands on New Years Eve, it’s different from the traditional recipe, I soaked the raisins and currents with Rum (optional) and replaced some of the Milk with Beer..and I added Apple.
What make the picture special is the table cloth which is “geborduurd” by my Mother who passed away earlier this year, I miss talking to her🙏🎄
Merry Christmas and a very happy and healthy 2024!

Yields 20 Large Oliebollen or 30 Medium size, I prefer the smaller medium size

Ingredients
2 Pack/7 Gram of dry yeast (total 14 gram)
1 Tsp Sugar
1/3 Cup of luke warm Milk

4 Cups of sifted Flour
2 Eggs
2/3 Cup of Milk
1/4 Cup of Sugar
2 tsp of Salt
1 Cup of Beer (I used Corona, cause it’s my beer of choice, Dark or Flavored Trapist Beer would work perfectly as well
3/4 Cup of Raisins
3/4 Cup of Currents both soaked in Rum
3/4 Cup Apple, peeled & cut in small brunoise
2 Tsp of Vanilla Extract
2 Qtr Vegetable Oil for frying
1 Pack Confection Sugar for dusting

Method
•Mix yeast, Sugar & luke warm Milk in a small bowl and let stand for 10 minutes.

•In a large bowl mix with a wooden spoon the sifted Flour , Milk, Beer, drained Rum Raisin liquid, Eggs, Salt and Vanilla until well mixes it should look closer to a dough mix then to a pancake mix
•Add the Yeast mixture
•Fold In drained Currents & Raisins and Apple
•Cover bowl with a moist towel and let it rise double the volume at a warm place in the kitchen

•Heat Oil in pan or fryer to 320F
•Scope dough with a medium icecream scope and carefully dump in warm oil
•It is important that Oil is on temperature otherwise they will soak up Oil
•Oliebollen need to fry until Golden Brown, when done scoop them out of the Oil and let them drain on paper towel.
•Place them in a bowl and dust them with Confectionary Sugar.

Eet smakelijk and a healthy and happy New Year!
Chef Karel

26/12/2024

What’s for lunch today?

a typical Dutch winter dish we call “stampot boerenkool” met rookworst, spekjes en augurk.
Hodgepodge of Potatoes, Kale, Smoked Sausage, fried Pork-belly and pickle.
Eet smakelijk.

25/12/2024

Dessert! Crème Brûlée

25/12/2024

What’s for Christmas dinner?
Roasted Rack of Lamb Persillade, Carrot, Parsnip, Butternut Squash, Anna Potatoes

25/12/2024

French Onion Soup.

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25/12/2024

Merry Christmas / Happy Weihnukkah

23/12/2024

What’s for Lunch today?

Creamy Tuscan Chicken Emince with Pappardelle Egg Noodles

1 Chicken breast cut into small strips
1 cup Mushrooms, remove stems, wash and sliced
1 ea Shallot, peeled and minced
1/2 cup Dry White Wine
1 cup Heavy Cream
1 tsp fresh Thyme leaves, minced
1 tsp fresh Rosemary needles, minced
1 tbsp fresh Italian Parsley, washed and minced
2 cup Cooked Pappardelle
1/2 cup Grated Parmesan Cheese

Method:
Sautee Chicken strips with a little Olive Oil, add Mushrooms, minced Shallot, fresh Thyme leaves, chopped fresh Rosemary, minced Parsley add White Wine, let Wine evaporate and add heavy Cream, let simmer together until Cream is thick add the cooked Egg Noodles, taste and serve in Pasta bowl and sprinkle with grated Parmesan.
Eet smakelijk!

21/12/2024

Found some fresh Bluefin Tuna at in Hillsborough, NC
Coated with black & white Sesame seeds and seared, served with Daikon, Carrot, Micro Greens & Cilantro and Japanese Mayo (Red Miso, Ponzu, Sesame Oil & Mayo)
Chef Karel

11/12/2024

Chef Karel is at it again.
Deviled Eggs are filled with creamed Irish butter, egg yolk, mustard & mayonnaise, Garnishes with bacon, pickle, crispy caper, homemade tomato ketchup and dill.
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Available by the dozen for your holiday party or private function, order by the dozen and 4 days lead time, pm me for quote!

29/11/2024

Chef Karel is at it again!

Moroccan Chicken Tagine with Sumac and Safflower spiced Couscous

Ingredients:
Chicken thighs, Preserved Lemon, pitted Green Olives, Pitted Black Olives, dried Figs, Dry Apricots, Capers, Garlic, sliced Onions, Sumac, Safflower stems, Moroccan Harissa Paste or powder.

Method:
See images follow step by step and bake for 60 minutes in 350F oven, remove Chicken skin and bones and serve with Couscous

29/11/2024

Chef Karel is at it again.
Pickle, Bacon & Chives Deviled Eggs

28/11/2024

Our Thanksgiving’s dinner: (I don’t like the Bird)
Roasted bnls Rack of Lamb, Haricots Vert, Dauphinoise Potatoes, small Greek Salad, Herb & Garic Butter
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Preparing the soil for the vegetable starts, gardening is really all about the dirt, like the farmer said “you can have my Daughter but you can’t have my dirt” Stay healthy my friends!

Good morning from Hillsborough NC! My thoughts go out to my Mom (93) who is in a nursing home in Holland and can’t have visitors, also thinking of our friends working on Holland America Line Ships and are stuck on-board and of their family at home, can only imagine of what you have been going through, hope this will be all over soon! Update on the garden, yesterday I installed sprinklers and made a bench from some old wood and blocks we had laying around, so now we can enjoy our morgen coffee while the sprinklers do the job. Today I will work on some more 🦌🐇 fencing. Stay healthy my friends!🙏 Chef Karel

First video explains position of our garden related to the sun and current reality plus the plan to incorporate herbs, vegetables and flowers. Stay healthy my friends! Chef Karel