Contents: Gnocchi Tomato relish Snow-pea stir-fry with soy sauce and chili flakes Mini sandwich with salad and lettuce Ah yes, sweet student life, whenever you think you have a little time to yourself something comes up and you end up spending your holidays busy with random stuff. Like we have this fabulous internship coming up for April. Normally universities, especially here in France, try to incorporate as many internships as Read More ...
Soon I’m going to be done with exams, then I’ll get to post much more. I really want to include a few recipes for things I posted during this busy period and I’d also like to make more general posts about quick filler dishes for bento that you can store in the fridge and use when needed. For now only the list of contents (recipes coming soon): Tortellini with tricolor Read More ...
I’m sorry for the lack of posts lately, I’m still very busy with exams. I did manage to make this bento today though, so I’m posting it quickly, without the usual wall of text! But fear not, I’m eager to start babbling again as soon as I get a bit more time Oh and I decided to add a french section to my posts as I seem to get a Read More ...
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 ...
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 ...
A few days ago I received one of Gordon Ramsay‘s cookbooks I had ordered. Gordon Ramsay Makes It Easy is a collection of recipes for everyday life, which you can prepare without spending a lot of money or standing in the kitchen for hours (it says so on the book-cover).As I’ve said before already: I don’t like celebrity cookbooks. Often you open them with high expectations and once you try Read More ...
It’s autumn which means it’s pumpkin season! Normally every market should be filled with a great variety of pumpkin/squash/acorn. Yeah well that’s normally :p Unfortunately here in the south of France pumpkin is not really a staple food. When Halloween approaches the big supermarkets import a few pumpkins but whatever they don’t manage to sell is sometimes being offered for weeks after as prepacked pumpkin slices. I’ve had a lot Read More ...
Gnocchi is one of my favorite Italian dishes. Usually I eat them with just a little grated cheese and I don’t think that any type of sauce is necessary for them to taste good. It’s actually not easy to find a good sauce for Gnnochi and I’ve been searching for a long time :p For me usual pasta sauces (bolognese, basil pesto, carbonara etc.) were simply to heavy for a Read More ...
“Les soupes, c’est pour les vieux” (Soups are for old people) “Errm… mais moi j’aime la soupe :p” (Uhm… but I like soup :p) “Pas possible!” (Can’t be!) I remember having a similar conversation with my husband’s adorable aunt. Well I’m not quite sure if young people really have come to hate soup nowadays, but I can’t imagine autumn without colorful vegetable soups. I must admit that the above soup Read More ...
[image to come soon]“Ok, what would you like for dinner tonight?” “Pasta, Pasta!” “Again? :p” “Yes ” I’m sure you know this type of conversation just too well. What can you do if your family likes Pasta a lot but if you’d still like to cook something healthy? While strolling over the vegetable section of a local shop here in Aix en Provence, I found a bunch of different vegetables Read More ...