When I ask my son these days what he likes to have for dinner, his answer will almost always be spaghetti & bolognese sauce. It was among the dishes almost perpetually simmering on my stove lately, when most of May and even June rather felt like rainy, misty autumn days and there was so much rain […]
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Parlez-vous franglais? Cake tout citron
Franglais – what charming coinage, a fusion of français and anglais, to describe a French scattered with English words. The longer I´ve lived in France, the more I realize how many anglicisms are actually used in every day speech. I´ve always thought French was relatively free from anglo-saxon imports, with French terms being used where the […]
Streuselkuchen – crumble cake.
deutsche Version Sometimes, life´s greatest pleasures can be so simple. A walk on a soft carpet of fallen leaves, countless overlapping layers tinted green and brown, yellow and red, while I´m listening to those crinkling sounds every time our feet touch the ground – that´s all it takes to make me happy on an autumn […]
gâteau breton
deutsche Version Le gâteau breton may be the cakiest of cakes. It´s made of not much more than the basic baking ingredients – egg yolks, butter, flour, and sugar -, and is simply named after the part of France it is from: Brittany. In fact, it rather is an enormous cookie than a cake, so dense […]
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