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Have you ever tried home made fresh pasta? It is so easy and far better! To make fresh pasta, mix one egg with 3/4 cup flour. Count on 2 eggs with 1 and 1/2 cup flour for 2 to 3 Continue reading Home made fresh pasta
Did I tell you I hold a pastry certificate since June? I learned so much, and I want to share it with you! So here is a milk brioche recipe, rolled out like a pie and sprinkled with sugar and Continue reading Milk brioche
I met the Crêpe Suzette quite recently actually. It was in these classic Parisian brasseries, after having a big plate of sea food in a very elegant but noisy Belle Epoque style atmosphere: le Dôme, la Coupole, Mollard, le Vaudeville, Bofinger… Continue reading Crêpe Suzette
I got this recipe from a bakery I worked in for a while. It’s a very good caramel recipe, perfect with nuts. You will love baking this pecan pie for Thanksgiving and it is just great for tea time. If Continue reading Pecan pie
Have you ever heard about bubble tea? It’s the trendy asian drink, that you can now find in most European big cities in bubble tea bars: hot or iced, in so many different flavours (coconut, taro, vanilla, soybean milk, strawberry, Continue reading Bubble tea: coconut milk, tapioca pearls and jasmin tea
When I went to Europain exhibition in Paris last year, I tasted these amazing French scallop-shell-shaped cookies at a baking equipment supplier stand. The young pastry chef kindly gave me the recipe as I was so enthusiastic about these incredible Continue reading Lemon madeleines
I tasted matcha tea in Japan. It’s a finely ground high-quality green tea with smoky flavours. Japanese tea ceremony is about matcha. But it is now also used to flavour and dye a lot of preparations: pastries, candies and chocolates, Continue reading Matcha cookies
Wouldn’t it be great to give a home-made, customized and delicious present to your friends and family for Christmas?! So here is an extra buttery shortbreads recipe from my pastry class, in which I added a spices mix. And then Continue reading Christmas spicy extra buttery shortbreads
Do you know that classy Parisian “brasserie”, boulevard du Montparnasse, named “Le Dôme” ? I tasted some great Saint-Pierre fish in this restaurant, that came with these famous Pompadour potatoes. This side dish was absolutely perfect with the delicate and Continue reading Pompadour potatoes, recipe from Le Dôme restaurant in Paris
Italians are pretty rigorous and unbending about their food. And they are right, because a country’s culinary identity is so important to preserve! Italian dishes are the most famous food worldwide, but not without a number of misconceptions : The 10 Continue reading Pasta al ragù, the real Bolognese sauce!