To a scrumptious new year!

By On January 2, 2011 · 2 Comments

I wish you and your dearest a very happy and scrumptious new year 2011!
May it bring you a whole lot of happiness, love, health and many dreams come true!

Thank you all so much for hanging out in my kitchen in 2010! It meant a [...]

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These skirts who makes the world go round…

By On April 11, 2010 · 2 Comments

Today’s ‘smile-it’s-Spring-special’: a crunchy and fresh salad, with a touch of apple and the delicate fragrances of anise and ginger…

Bon appetit!

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The almost grumpy, very sniffy, but lucky gourmande

By On May 1, 2009 · 3 Comments

Today’s special: Oeuf cocotte with fresh herbs from the garden and radish cress silky peppery soup for a revigorating brunch against yearly spring colds…

Oeuf cocotteVeloute de cresson

Bon appetit!

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Perfect monday…

By On April 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Today’s special: Asparagus and asparagus/vanilla dressing

Asperges

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Bittersweet

By On April 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Today’s special: Caramelised belgian endive and goat cheese tatin

Caramelised whilte loaf tatin

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Sunday morning gold

By On June 24, 2008 · 1 Comment

Let it be said… I’m not a morning person:
Take me out on saturday night, and you’ll find no one on sunday morning, and if you do, it will be a wining grumpy lazy gourmande! My dutchie found that out the hard way and after trying to wake me up tenderly a couple of times before sunrise [...]

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Warm and spicy, very comfy…

By On February 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Today’s special: a drop of pastis, a pinch of ginger, a soup, a crumble…

Velouté anisé (2)Pear and ginger crumble (2)

Bon appetit!

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A time for soup

By On February 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Lately, I am craving for my bed, a lot of sleep and soup! Chicken soup, leek and curry soup, fennel soup, celeriac and spinach soup… I  just can’t get enough!

Not surprising you would say, with all those microbes and viruses running around lately: I am surrounded by running noses, low hoarse voices and feverish eyes… My dutchie [...]

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Trick or treat flop

By On October 31, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Today, just back from work, I settled comfortably in front of my computer with a steaming expresso ready to get blogging when the doorbell started singing… Not expecting anyone. Probably my big friend the doorbell ghost again, I thought  (damn interferences!). But we never know, so I got up and went to the door…

Surprisingly, [...]

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Frost, defrost, no-frost… brunch?

By On October 22, 2007 · Leave a Comment

While my dutchie is a cycling freak and could spend hours looking and shopping for fancy expensive cycling gear, I, as a lazy gourmande, have something for fancy kitchen equipment… six pit stoves, professional gas-ovens, or just the kitchen aid department  at my favourite cook shop make my eyes shine with envy. [...]

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