[We could just hide under the bed covers - Brownies-like cookies and banana ice cream sandwiches]
Quite unexpectedly, summer showed up; with its glorious harvest, hot breezes and refreshing drinks.
Quite unexpectedly, I hadn’t noticed how time flew by. These past months; this past year.
It seems that since I came back from New Zealand, things haven’t stopped. [...]
[A green mouse, running through the grass – Snail-like vanilla and green tea sablés]
I assume you guessed from the lack of content around here that I’ve been somewhat busy. And well, you’re just damn right. I haven’t been cooking – or more accurately baking – much lately.
I sure have been making myself lovely meals: from [...]
Pâte feuilletée [puff pastry] is one of those things that people don’t make, ahem, very often. You might, which you should be blessed for; but so far, I haven’t met anyone who doesn’t rely on store-bought puff pastry. I guess this is okay for most of us; I have to admit that whenever I have a tart craving and no time to make puff pastry, I prefer to quickly put a simple pâte brisée together and get on with the filling comme si de rien était.
However, come over on a Sunday morning and you’re likely to find me making pâte feuilletée [...]
[Aïda's (but also, Pierre Hermé's) chocolate sablés viennois]
I would have preferred a guinea pig.
Those were my first words when my mother told me she was pregnant. As an eight year-old single child, the anticipation of having a sister – or even worse, a brother – was a rather dreadful thought.
However, as years went by, I [...]
To me, nothing feels as comforting as the perfumes that always filled my great grandmother’s house. That slight musky scent from the thin layer of dust, which used to cover the bibelots that sat on the wooden shelves. Those green, almost lemongrass-like, notes – most certainly la verveine [verbena herbal-tea] she had before going to [...]
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