Love is to share, mine is for you – Moelleux au chocolat blanc et au miel, abricots fondants et glace à la pistache

[White chocolate and honey sponge with poached apricots and pistachio ice-cream]

In my world, nothing matches the happiness of being in love. As a matter of fact, I love being in love. The goosebumps, the thrill, the excitement.
Nothing. Except, perhaps, the development process of a new pâtisserie. It starts with an idea, jotted down in a [...]

Dreams are made of this – A lobster thermidor

There are moments in my life when I couldn’t be happier. Many of them.
An endless beach, with crab hunting and kisses in the wind. An unplanned slumber party, with a bed sheet fort and a torch. A note found rolled under my bed, with ink smears. A sneak at my feet, with a flying kite. [...]

A pastry stall and other stories

Sometimes, it all gets down the simplest things. A few words exchanged with a new friend, an idea that as has been kept asleep for too long, a birthday cake assembled and eaten.
And suddenly, it makes sense.
I have decided to launch my own business. Possibly a small pastry stall. Possibly at Borough Market. Possibly [...]

Maintenant ou jamais – Mousse à la vanille et rhubarbe pochée à la grenadine

[Now or never - Vanilla mousse and grenadine-poached rhubarb]

I was in love with someone. Or, as I recently realised after some happy times we spent together again, I was just loving some parts of this someone. Very much.
In fact, I was so smitten with the idea of him, that I would live in the illusion [...]

L’espace d’un moment – Un rêve éphémère

[Spur of the moment - An ephemeral dream]
I am home – or more accurately I have been home for a week or so – forced to stay here.
Sometimes, nature compels us to slow down, perhaps for the right reasons.
Spending time here – just doing simple things – especially after the impulsive decision to fly [...]