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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Baba au rhum
It´s not that long ago since I tasted a Baba au rhum for the first time. Since childhood days, this had been the forbidden cake. As a little girl, I had seen the baba at the pâtisseries whenever I would go to France with my parents do some food shopping (I grew up in a corner of Germany […]
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 […]
