A chic and timeless tea time at the Grand Véfour in Paris
The “Grand Véfour” in a masterpiece of the 18th century in France.
The Gerbeaud café in Budapest, Hungary (2016)
I ate the famous Palascinta (Hungarian sweet pancakes) at the Gerbeaud café in Budapest, in 2016. It is a pastry with a blend of several flavours (apricot, walnuts, vanilla and chocolate). The atmosphere and decoration are elegant, chic and timeless. In 1858, Henrik Kugler opened a café in Budapest ( József nádor Square). His shop…
Tea time in Paris 2
Tomo and Dépôt légal are my favourite tea times in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. There is also L’éclair de génie café, Valentin Vivienne and Kalany Mya. Bernardaud’s teapot and an ancient mahogany shelf (Napoleon III).
Parisian pastries 2/2
The Flan pâtissier is a flan (an egg cream beaten with milk and baked in an oven) put on a short pastry. « Baba au rhum is a light cake raised with yeast, containing raisins and dried fruits and soaked in a rum syrup. » The Amandine tart also called Bourdaloue tart is a creation…
Parisian pastries 1/2
Chouquettes are small choux pastries with pearl sugar. The choux pastry dated from the 16th century and was invented by the Italian Popelini who was the pastry cook of the French Queen Catherine de Médicis (1519-1589). In 1760, Jean Avice (French pastry cook of the head of state Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord and at the head…
Homemade Alsatian Christmas pastries
We made Alsatian pastries for Christmas : Cinnamon stars or Zimtsterne (soft cinnamon cakes recovered with icing sugar), Kouglof (Brioche with raisins and almonds, shaped in a special mould with a hole in the middle) , Spiced bredele, Florentins (biscuits with almonds, crystallized orange and lemon barks), Stollen (Christmas fruit bread with almond paste), Spitzbueben…
Favourite culinary specialities in Bourgogne, France
Cheese gougère, snails of bourgogne, wine of Bourgogne and mustard are my Favourite culinary specialities in Bourgogne, France. There are others specialities in Bourgogne like beef bourguignon (beef with wine, onions, bacon and mushrooms), wine rooster, truffle of bourgogne, Chablis wine, aligoté (wine), sauvignon, œuf en meurette (poached egg with red wine and bacon), marbled…
Favourite sweet specialities in Bourgogne, France
Ginger bread, blackcurrant (fruit, jam, candies, cream, sirup…) and nonnettes (round small pastry with ginger bread, often with jam inside) are my favourite sweet specialities in Bourgogne, France. There are other sweet specialities in Bourgogne like anise of Flavigny, gamblettes (small cakes with almond, ginger bread, peels, spices and candies fruits), cramaillotte (dandelion jelly with…
Alsatian Christmas pastries
Homemade Alsatian Christmas bredele (Étoiles à la cannelle, Linzer…).
A gourmet Christmas in Alsace
Hansi‘s illustration of an Alsatian little girl and Alsatian Christmas pastries. In the set, there are my favourite Alsatian pastries for Christmas : Cinnamon stars or Zimtsterne (soft cinnamon cakes recovered with icing sugar), Kouglof (Brioche with raisins and almonds, shaped in a special mould with a hole in the middle) , Shortbread linzer (chocolate…
Easter sweets
The teddy bear in milk chocolate, the pinapple in dark chocolate and the bunny in white chocolate are from the French pastry Karamel Paris. The funny bunny with yellow glasses in dark chocolate is a creation of the French pastry chef Christophe Michalak. Besides, the small bunny in milk chocolate is from Maison Larnicol Paris.
