[And I would eat your hair - Chocolate chip and vanilla pastry cream danish braid]
When I found out about what Kelly and Ben wanted us to make for June’s daring bakers challenge, I was thrilled.
Danish braid.
Read, layers of sweet buttery dough enclosing whatever filling you can dream about. And shaped into a lovely-looking braid […]
Sometimes seducing a guy is a very easy task: you think, you wink, you double blink - dans la poche [easy peasy].
And other times it just isn’t; no matter how hard a girl tries, nothing happens.Back in 1998, I remember this boy in my class whose hair definitely recalled Son Gohan’s (as a Super Saiyan […]
[Smooth and grainy - The paradox of chesnut and vanilla jam]
From Christine Ferber’s Mes confitures (page 161)
Some weeks ago I decided to have a ‘jam-making’ weekend to celebrate my new cookbook from Christine Ferber.
I had heard lots of positive reviews about Mes confitures and couldn’t resist getting my hands at it.
Thus I randomly picked three […]
[Apricots’ time]
Apricots… What to say about apricots?
A golden velvety skin.
A sweet tender flesh.
Really you must love them!
I’m lucky to have an apricot tree in the back of my garden and though the tree is really old, it still produces the best apricots one can have. Juicy, sweet and soft… In one word: the perfect apricot.
It […]
[How come you’re bored of eating strawberries]
Sometimes, you’ve got to face the truth: you’re addicted.
I don’t know about you, but the less time a product is available, the more I become obsessed with it.
Strawberries are a good example.
They start pointing their nose out around mid-may and disappear by the end of July. Almost three months, […]
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