When I was little, my mum used to make a gratin with spätzle, cauliflower and broccoli. Even though she used a ready-mix to make the sauce for the gratin, I couldn’t get enough of it. But which kid can actually get enough of spätzle? Unfortunately I couldn’t make any spätzle because I didn’t have eggs left, but I used pasta instead and it tasted (almost) just as good! To replace Read More ...
Contents Fried rice (scroll down for recipe) Corn cakes (scroll down for recipe) Baby spinach salad with ricotta California roll Cherry tomatoes Little bottle of vinaigrette for the salad What I liked about this bento This bento allowed me to use up an incredible amount of leftovers. Over the past days I had gathered up leftovers of: ham, steamed carrots, cooked corn, rice and ricotta. It was really fun to Read More ...
Contents Quick Mac’n Cheese (scroll down for recipe) Japanese Rice Red Bean Burgers (scroll down for recipe) Chicken sausages in octopus form (didn’t work very well, more about that later though) Tamagoyaki When we decided to prepare a bento this morning we wanted to use up a few things that gathered up in the fridge: rice, pasta, sausages and some grated cheese. Grated cheese and pasta made me think of Read More ...
When my mother in law returned from Canada she brought back the most amazing maple syrup. You could literally drink it with a straw the whole day and you wouldn’t get tired of it. Apparently there is a great difference between store-bought maple syrup that we can find in local supermarkets and real maple syrup which is produced traditionally in smaller quantities. The difference is as striking as comparing Blue Read More ...
My perfect cookie has to be chewy... While I was browsing the Orangette blog the other day I saw a recipe for chewy cocoa cookies that intrigued me because it uses yogurt to make the cookies soft and to reduce the number of calories a little. The pictures of the cookies were absolutely stunning (that’s how I always imagined a perfect cookie!). So when I tried this recipe I used Read More ...
Whatever the occasion, crêpes are simply always popular. They can be made quickly, in large quantities and can serve as savory dish as well as dessert. The crêpes in the above picture are filled with ham, grated cheese and mushrooms. Some people confuse crêpes with pancakes but they are actually very different. Crêpes are almost as thin as a sheet of paper and mostly they are way bigger in size Read More ...
Contents: 1 cup cooked Japanese rice (with a little salt) Teriyaki fried chicken (1 chicken breast) Cherry tomatoes Cucumber, avocado, surimi salad with “sushi” dressing (scroll down for recipe) Tamagoyaki Maple syrup candy (which my mum in law brought back for us from Canada) Chocolate egg Today I made a bento for us! What I like the most about bento is that it gives you full control over calories, portioning, Read More ...
My favourite cake must be carrot cake. No wait, this carrot cake.I remember when I lived in Germany, as a student, I used to work at a coffee shop to earn a bit of extra money. It was there that I saw carrot cake for the first time. “Möhrenkuchen” it was called and we had a lot of it left over one day. The owner of the shop gave me Read More ...
Oh boy the past few days have really been busy here in Aix en Provence. University was closed down because students throughout the whole country organise strikes against a law that would give full autonomy to universities (hence allowing selection of students by making them pass an entry exam). Many are fearing that this might lead to a full privatization of the university system (tuition fees etc). Anyway, all of Read More ...