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Student recipes

There you are. In the slightly dirty kitchen of your student home. It is your turn to put a meal on the table for you and your housemates. But what will you cook? And maybe even more important: How will you make that? Here you will find four delicious and mainly easy recipes to surprise your housemates.

Pasta Red Pesto

This easy recipe is very delicious and won’t break the bank! It is very easy to make vegetarian, just leave the meat out and add some more vegetables.

Shopping list (for 4 people) • 300 gr pasta • 180 gr Drentse Kosterworst • 1 onion • 1 glove garlic • 250 ml cream • 250 gr cherry tomatoes • 275 gr courgette • 275 gr bell peppers • salt and pepper • splash of olive oil • Some rucola • 6 tablespoons of red pesto • Grated cheese

1. Finely chop the onion and garlic and fry briefly in a splash of olive oil. Add the pieces of bell pepper and courgette and fry for about 10 minutes. Meanwhile, cook the pasta until done.

Add the (home-made) pesto and cream to the chicken and stir well. Quickly taste whether it need salt or pepper. 2. Cut the meat and fry it without oil in a separate pan. 3. Let the pesto sauce simmer gently for a few minutes. Add the cooked pasta and mix it together. Cut the tomatoes in half and also stir into the pasta pesto and heat for another minute.

Serve the pasta pesto in the pan or on a plate with some rocket, grated cheese and the roasted pine nuts.

Mini pavlovas with white chocolate cream

Go old-school with these mini pavlovas, raised above and beyond with white chocolate cream and rosé raspberry syrup.

Shopping list (6 serves) • egg whites 3 • caster sugar 150g • cornflour ½ tsp • white wine vinegar ½ tsp

White chocolate cream • white chocolate 100g, broken into pieces • double cream 400ml

Rosé syrup • rose wine 300ml • caster sugar 150g • raspberries 300g

1. Line two baking sheets with baking paper and draw 3 x 10cm circles on each piece of paper. 2. Heat the oven to 170C/fan 150C/gas. 3. Put the egg whites into a large, clean bowl and use electric beaters to whisk to firm peaks. Add the sugar 1 tbsp at a time, while whisking, until the mixture holds stiff peaks and is shiny and glossy. Carefully whisk in the cornflour and vinegar. 4. Divide the mixture between the 6 circles on the baking paper, then use a dessertspoon to make into rounds with nests in the middle. Put into the oven and immediately turn the temperature down to 150C/fan 130C/gas 2 and cook for 40 minutes, then turn the oven off and leave inside to cool for 1 hour. Move onto a wire rack to cool completely. 5. For the white chocolate cream, put the white chocolate and 150ml of the cream into a small pan and gently heat until all of the chocolate has melted. Pour into a bowl, cover the surface with clingfilm and chill until cool and thickened. 6. For the rosé syrup, put the wine and sugar into a small pan, and simmer until reduced and syrupy. Leave for 15 minutes to cool, stir in the raspberries, then leave to cool completely. 7. To finish the white chocolate cream, whip the remaining cream to soft peaks, then gently fold in the white chocolate ganache, whisking again to thicken, if needed. 8. Put the meringues onto plates, spoon on some cream, then finish with the rosé syrup and raspberries.

Transportation

Get a bike

When starting your studies in Enschede, we would recommend you to quickly get a bike. In the Netherlands, cycling is one of the easiest and most common ways to get around quickly and sustainably. There are different ways to get a bike:

Renting a bike If you need a bike for a couple of hours (e.g. during a city trip in another Dutch city) you can make use of the OV-fiets. These public transport bicycles are available at almost any train station and cost only €3,85 per day. For more information, you can visit https://www.ns.nl/en/door-to-door/ov-fiets. You will need a personal OV-chipcard to use these bikes! More info about the OV-chipcard can be found at www.ov-chipkaart.nl. When using a bike for a longer period of time, you can choose a long term renting programme like Swapfiets (Swapfiets.nl). Swapfiets charges €14,50 per month. You can visit their website for more information.

Public transport

In the Netherlands, it is very common to move around by bike. For bigger distances, public transport is a very good solution. Sometimes, the Dutch Railways (NS) sells day tickets via (online) shops, which generally are way cheaper than regular fares. Both the university and the city centre can easily be reached by bus or train. The bus lines that stop on or near the campus are line 1 (city centre to campus) and line 9 (between Enschede and Hengelo, via the campus). When planning your travels, just check for the best connection on www.9292.nl. An explanation on how to use the Dutch public transport and the OV-chipcard can be found on the Kick-In website.

Buying a bike A more low-budget option is to buy your own bike. If you are looking to buy a second-hand bike, there are some options on where to look: • www.marktplaats.nl: Online marketplace where sec ond-hand products are offered by locals (the Dutch ver sion of Ebay) • www.facebook.com/groups/utwentemarketplace: The UT equivalent of marktplaats. • A lot of bicycle shops also sell second-hand bikes