Orange – chocolate cake
I’m quite proud on that cake. I took a rather basic cake recipe with dried figs (which I don’t really fancy ) and adjusted it . Quickly done but really good. 150 gr Butter at room temperature 125 gr sugar a pinch of salt 2…
Sablés au chocolat at à la fleur de sel
As you could see we had a busy weekend in the kitchen. Still in the fridge was the sablé dough, waiting to go to the oven. The recipe comes from fanny from foodbeam, my new discovery. I love her blog, a feast to read and…
Green tea sablé
This spring when I was in New York I tried out a new place the Amai Tea and Bake House. You can get the address and my review in our travelguide.They do really interesting baking. Rich brownies made with botanical ingredients like lychee and and…
Soba tea
Lucky me I got a new pack soba tea from Japan. Soba is buckwheat, soba tea has a hearty and toasty flavor. I like it a lot. Mind you I don’t like cooked buckwheat at all. To celebrate and accompany this tea I tried these…
Quince sweets
I tried to make something I usually buy from good patisseries. I don’t even know how you call this in english. It’s like very seet quince paste. I did not turn out like I wanted it but is still rather nice, to sweet though. Next…
Braided bread
Hard to believe but sometimes cuts are a good thing. We buy our bread from the outstanding “Vechigen Reform” bakery. They do very nice dark and moist bread. Even me who usually prefers white bread can’t stop eating it. But for the weekend brunch I…
Quince jam with vanilla
Even though the weather is still like summer ( 20 ° Wednesday evening ) , there’s no doubt that autumn is here. Our neighbours did harvest all the quinces from the tree between our gardens. There’s always plenty of recipes I would love to try…
Filled pumpkin
Autumn is definitely coming. Pumpkin filled with mushrooms.
Fig chutney
Since last autumn I have been thinking about making a fig chutney. I cook very often with fresh figs. Pasta with fresh fig and chili is one of my favorite fast dinners. Or a quick fig and buffala mozzarella salad, or a tajin. But so…