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A memoir of six eggs

This is the kind of tales that you never thought you’d hear. Six eggs, after backpacking all over the US, decided they would cross the Altantic ocean to visit France.
Epic. Was the journey.
They asked me to tell you guys - Jen (love you girl), Hélène and Hannah, Anita, Peabody, Ivonne, Lisa and Mary - […]

Saturday c’est Hermé - Le tour: les kouign amanns

pierre-herme-kouign-amann.jpgYou see those cute little guys above. Don’t underestimate them.

Oh no, don’t.

Sure, they do look nice. So plump and golden, you could almost tell right away how crisp and brittle their beautifully thin crust is.
And they certainly do taste good as well. Imagine fragile layers of fine pastry made sticky with oodles of sucre semoule [caster sugar] and beurre doux [unsalted butter]. These are probably what your next dream will be built around, which I would understand […]

Une jonchée en trois bouchées

[A jonchée in three bites]

I had planned to write about Easter. How happy it makes me; and I swear it’s not just the chocolate profusion. In my family, Easter revolves around love and quite evidently, around food. I realise I might sound like a broken record – and I’m pretty sure I actually do – […]

Joyeux Noël

I hope you’re having a lovely time with your family. In my house, Christmas was celebrated yesterday night with a scrumptious dinner.
bubble and squeak in baked potato skins
brochettes de boudin blanc et pommes poilées [apple and white pudding kebabs]
blinis servis avec crème fraîche et caviar [fresh yeast blinis served with crème fraiche and caviar]
focaccia maison […]

Constructing your perfect cake

You should know me by now. I can’t not bake. It gets me physically-and-emotionally-damaged. Yes, it’s that bad. I need to bake. Really, I need it.
However, I do understand that some people consider baking and pastry as difficult and time-consuming.
Here is the thing: I’m addicted to baking and you desperately need some help/step-by-step guidance.
Is […]