The one with good coffee

If you happen to find yourself in my hometown Nijmegen, and in need of a great tasting cup of coffee, I would definitely suggest grabbing a cuppa at Coffyn. First of all, this is in no way a sponsored post. This is just a place I love going to. 

The space is amazing (housed in a former museum, in a quiet area in the middle of the city centre) and the coffee is home roasted, fair trade and you can choose between different sorts of beans. When you order a café latte, you get a glass with hot milk and a small jug with coffee, so you can decide how strong you want your hot beverage (I am hearing this in Sheldon Coopers' voice...) to be. And the little bowl of coffee bean shaped chocolates is a very pleasant bonus. 

Try snatching up a table next to the large windows, I love the view on the river Waal! Or near the fireplace. There are lots of magazines to borrow, if you fancy a read.

There is an artsy looking tree-thing, with branches adorned with vintage coffee cups, how cool's that?

With my coffee, I ordered a big piece of super yummy apple pie, and mum got this sandwich with mozzarella, dried tomatoes and pesto.  

Also, at Coffyn people with or without a disability work together, which makes it a unique concept. When you finished your coffee, you can pay at the cash register, situated in a small store, where I always snag up some yummy treats to take home.

You can find Coffyn in Nijmegen, at Franseplaats 1. More info on their website over here (only in Dutch).

The one with the couscous and pumpkin

What you'll need (lunch for four):

• 1 cup of couscous
• 3 tablespoons of roasted pinenuts
• half a cup of plumped raisins
• 1 cup of vegetable stock
• 3 big hands of fresh spinach
• half a pumpkin
• 6 big tablespoons of fetacheese, in cubes
• 2 tablespoons of olive oil

What you'll need to do:

Start by making the couscous as said on the package. Stir fry the pumpkin for a couple of minutes in the olive oil and add the vegetable stock. Let it simmer until the liquid has evaporated and the pumpkin is quite soft. Take this of the fire and while it's still warm, add the spinach and stir with a wooden spoon. When the vegetables have cooled down a bit, add the couscous, together with the feta cheese, pinenuts and raisins.

We ate this dish lukewarm, but it can be eaten cold too. Enjoy!

The one with the goat's cheese salad

What you'll need (lunch for two):

• 75 grams of lettuce
• half a cucumber
• 1 avocado
• a big slice of (soft) goat's cheese
• parmesan
• 2 tablespoons of roasted pine nuts
• 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
• 2 tablespoons of honey

What you'll need to do:

Toss together the vegetables, the pinenuts and crumbled goat's cheese. Make a dressing of the oil and the honey, and add this too. Before serving grate the parmesan over it.

I served the salad with warm bread and kept the cheese close, for extra grating during lunch. In my opinion you can never, ever have too much cheese!