My friend Alison came to visit Paris all the way from Malaysia. We’ve been online friends for a couple of years now, and now we’re IRL (in real life) friends too! Look! Alison is in my city! Isn’t she purty? Of course we had their family over for dinner, and when I asked for requests, she mentioned that her husband… Read More
A galette des rois (pronounced gah-let day rwa) is a flaky cake with filling that you eat on the 12th night after Christmas. The Epiphany. It honors the magi kings (rois) who came to pay homage to Jesus. And this celebration is a big deal in France. I’ll tell you more about the tradition on Thursday for my French post…. Read More
So. The pâtisserie called “Opéra,” pronounced oh-pair-ah. Do you know it? This post gives you step-by-step instructions with photos for how to make one. There are 44 photos in all. One of them is this. It’s not for the faint of heart. You will need to make the following things: cake layer, the coffee syrup, italian merengue (which is part of… Read More
Clafoutis comes from the Limousin region of the southwest of France. It’s sometimes spelled without the “s” at the end, but the correct spelling is clafoutis, pronounced, klah-foo-tee, with an equal accent on each syllable. There are many varying recipes for clafoutis, and I’m not even talking about the salty ones with tuna or the huge number of fruit ones… Read More
I am not very adventurous when it comes to buying fruit. I usually just stick to apples and bananas, and clementines in the winter. I just hate when I buy fruit that is not good. Last week I splurged and bought watermelon, grapes, peaches, apples and apricots. I was rewarded by delicious fruit in every way. Except for the apricots…. Read More
When my blog friend Kim, from My Inner Chick, asked for the recipe to my vanilla cupcakes (next to the calla lilies a few posts ago), I knew I couldn’t refuse. Kim champions the cause of battered women (see Violence Unsilenced). She shouts it from the rooftops, actually – after her beloved sister Kay was shot in the head by… Read More
