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Et j’ai rencontré une fille en forme de fée - Cookies au chocolat et aux maltesers

[I’ve met a fairy-like girl - Chocolate malted whooper drops]

Sometimes, our lives get so busy that we forget about how beautiful it is to live; and we can’t even see the lovely things that surround us.
Call it the side effect of our super-exciting way-of-life full of crazy experiments and adventures; I just think it’s sad […]

Comme chez Pierre Hermé - Sablés aux olives noires

[Just like Pierre Hermé’s - Black olive shortbreads]

Remember the day when I said I would write about my internship at Pierre Hermé’s pâtisserie on a weekly basis? Well, I seem to have forgotten that last part: weekly basis…
I have to admit I’ve been doing really bad. Out of ten terrific weeks, I managed to write […]

Deux grains de sucres pour les deux ans de foodbeam - Sablés au thé matcha et cupcakes à la vanille, aux perles du Japon et au thé vert

[Two sugar grains for foodbeam’s second birthday - Matcha shortbread and green tea bubble filled vanilla cupcakes]

Exactly two years ago, something got me totally over-excited. Over the fact that I had just finished my exams, discovered I wasn’t the only person in the world thinking mostly about food and created foodbeam – enough reasons to […]

Rage syndrome inducing – Pierre Hermé’s sablés au chocolat et à la fleur de sel

Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you utterly fail.
I did try, in fact, to resist to Pierre Hermé’s sablés au chocolat et à la fleur de sel.
But then, from the photo above you can tell I’ve given in – and what a defeat; because although I easily concede that, ‘yes, I’ve been weak and […]

Voyage dans le temps - Chewy peanut butter cookies

[Travel through time - Chewy peanut butter cookies]

American and British cuisines are becoming a big phenomenon, here in France. Everyone wants his piece of cheesecake, his fairycake or his pancakes.
Actually I reckon it is a good thing that British food finally meets the glory it deserves.
I discovered AmerEnglish food quite early in life. At that […]