Today’s special: minute sweet bites for gloomy and not so gloomy days….
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!
Looking for fresh inspiration? Curious about what’s cooking in my kitchen in Spring?
Tada! Check out the Winter cloud of gourmandises…

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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…
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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 [...]
I’ve been away from this blog much longer than I expected. I ve missed you all. Good and bad things have happened in my life the last months, and I just couldn’t keep up. It’s a long and pretty boring story that I’ll spare you but here I am, not yet back at the top of [...]
Since I’ve moved to the Netherlands, the easter bunny has always spoiled me with one of the most precious gift ever (I see the smile on your faces already… Don’t get me wrong: the lazy gourmande is not talking chocolate today): for what I can remember, Easter weekends have counted in the warmest weekends of the year for the [...]
Luckily for you, I am not in the mood to sing or exert any musical talent that I don’t have! Not that it would really matter for you anyway as I have not yet become acquainted with podcasts and other blog fancy tricks…
No, today, I would like to introduce you to one of [...]
Welcome in my new kitchen,
Hope you'll like it!Bon appetit!
La gourmande.
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