Biscuits

Tuiles aux amandes»

Almond tile biscuits. The almonds are supposed to be on the other side, ooooooooops. Great biscuits for serving with ice cream.

Bread

Brioche»

Soft, fluffy ‘petit brioche en tête’ (transl. brioche with a head). Great stuff but a lot of work when you have to make it by hand (everything is done by hand at school). Especially with the heat at the moment. I was melting like a piece of butter today. You can do the recipe using [...]

Savoury

A feisty sweet & spicy salmon salad»

Thursday night my friend was playing some old show tunes on the piano at Hôtel Sers, so I went along to lend some moral support with a few friends. While sipping a very delicious apple martini (definitely shaken not stirred with a small slither of lemon peel) I asked them ‘If you were a [...]

Dessert

Thé crème brûlée»

I posted this almost 2 years ago (wow, can’t believe I’ve been blogging for that long). Anyway I dug it out of the backwaters of this blog for Meeta’s Monthly mingle “Coffee & Tea”. Take a look at her site for this great tea and coffee inspired recipes.
Here are some other tea inspired recipes on [...]

Dulce de leche

Homemade dulce de leche»

I ran out of dulce de leche this week. Being a bit of a lazy bones (I only made it to the gym once this week – I should be there as we speak) I thought I’ld have a go at making my own, instead schlepping a couple of jars across Paris.
After doing a bit [...]