Archives for the ‘Sweets’ Category

Blueberry pancakes “R khooks stylee”

By rkhooks • Feb 3rd, 2008 • Category: Dessert, Food, Food blog events, Going out, Music, Sweets, recipe

I saw one of my favourite bands this week. I was slightly distracted during the concert when Fink started singing “Blueberry Pancakes”. My mind wandered to my blueberry pancake recipe. Would I add buttermilk to my mixture? How would I incorporate the blueberries? Buckwheat flour or plain flour? My “foodie daydream” didn’t last that long [...]



Christmas Chocolate & cinnamon cantucci

By rkhooks • Dec 18th, 2007 • Category: Biscuits, Chocolate, Food, Food blog events, Sweets

This time last year my tiny studio turned into a mini biscuit factory. Like my aunts in Austria who bake tons of Christmas biscuits every year I like to carry on the tradition (maybe not as well and in smaller quantities). Unfortunately this year I just haven’t had the time to bake as much [...]



Menu for Hope IV

By rkhooks • Dec 10th, 2007 • Category: Biscuits, Cake, Chocolate, Dessert, Drinks, Dulce de leche, Food blog events, Food blogs, Food events, French blogs, Going out, La Cocotte, Other blogs, Paris, Sweets

The lovely Fanny from Foodbeam sent me an email a couple of weeks ago, asking whether I could participate in the Menu for Hope IV event. Menu for hope is an annual fundraising event masterminded by chez Pim raising money for the UN World Food Programme feed the hungry.
Each year, food bloggers from all over [...]



Hot off the press…

By rkhooks • Nov 21st, 2007 • Category: Biscuits, Cake, Chocolate, Dessert, Dulce de leche, Food, Food events, La Cocotte, Other, Paris, Recette en français, Savoury, Sweets, recipe, snack

Hate to blow my trumpet, but who cares I’m so excited about being on the cover (with my cake) of this month’s Elle à table I just had to share it with you. There’s an 8 page article inside “Christmas dinner with the 4 girls from la Cocotte“. Andrea and I wrote the recipes and [...]



And the winner is…

By rkhooks • Oct 20th, 2007 • Category: Biscuits, Chocolate, Dessert, Food blog events, Food blogs, Food events, Other, Other blogs, Sweets, recipe

So the winner for the first Stop the Traffik chocolate competition is Stephanie from Whisk & Spoon with her very delicious White chocolate & almond tartufi (you can invite me over for dinner anytime A little fairtrade chocolate goodie bag will be winging her way soon.