Une tranche de vie
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
Here is a very-easy-to-make chicken and soybean vermicelli Vietnamese soup. And it is so delicious! It’s another Vietnamese recipe from my granny. I’ve been eating it at least once every single winter since I’m a child. This chicken and soybean Continue reading Chicken and soybean vermicelli Vietnamese soup
Ah Savoyard fondue! Cheese, wine and bread. Everything French people could kill for! Fondue is something you share, it’s warmth, it’s comfort food, it’s joy and happiness together. As I was on a weekend with some friends in Savoy, I Continue reading Savoyard fondue
Here is a great winter recipe. Canederli are a specialty from South Tyrol, Trentino-Alto Adige, a region in Northern Italy close to Austria, were they are called knödel. They are a sort of gnocchi made of stale bread. And like Continue reading Spinach and cheese canederli
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