Sometimes inspiration literally comes from the street, even for baking Christmas cookies…
Category: Desserts & sweets
beef, beets, baisers & an enchanted garden
It´s our first Christmas here in Paris, and while I´ve always loved the enchantment the season brings, this year I´m particularly fond of it. It was last December when it became a real option to move to France, and precisely a year ago we came here and explored some Parisian neighborhoods with the eyes of possible residents […]
new wine in town
It´s Beaujolais time @mamangerie, and we´re celebrating with delicious recipes: sweet potato gnocchi with brown butter, walnuts and crispy sage and Beaujolais poached pears. Something for everybody, I hope!
canelés
From the culinary treasury of the Bordeaux come these golden gems: les canelés. Quite unremarkable from the outside, the legendary confections are filled with Bordelais tradition, culture and history. Even if the circumstances of their creation remain somewhat mysterious, the story of the canelés most likely starts in the 18th century and might go something […]
The emperor´s dessert
At least once a week, I love to make waffles, crêpes, pancakes or Kaiserschmarrn. This fluffy, eggy dessert, very popular in Austria and the south of Germany, was one of the first recipes I was able to cook on my own in my mother´s kitchen. Each time I make my mother´s Kaiserschmarrn, it reminds me […]
rose & raspberry kisses
During our first weeks in Paris, the weather, with very few exceptions, has been amazing: warm, summery, all one can ask for to feel welcomed by a new city. So when my family asked for whipped cream the other day, I´m sure they had ice cream in mind. I, on the other hand, wanted something else. […]
madeleines
In contrast to the much-cited scene in Proust´s novel when the taste of a madeleine elicits the fondest childhood memories, my own first encounter with the little French tea cakes was not quite as overwhelming: When I was a kid, the supermarket version of madeleines used to help us out as an easy snack on […]
The draw
deutsche Version It´s been a while since my husband surprised me with this dessert. By the time, all his attempts to make me fall in love with beer had failed, which he pretended to take somewhat personally. The “defeat” before his eyes, he came up with a little trick: One night, he cooked dinner, and whipped […]
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