Tag Archives: gastronomy
Parisian pastries 2/2
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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 … Continue reading
Tea time in Paris 3
Homemade Alsatian Christmas pastries
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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 … Continue reading
Easter sweets 2019
Favourite culinary specialities in Bourgogne, France
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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 … Continue reading
Favourite sweet specialities in Bourgogne, France
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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 … Continue reading
Alsatian Christmas pastries
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Homemade Alsatian Christmas bredele (Étoiles à la cannelle, Linzer…).
Christmas teas
Christmas 2017 sweets
Celebrating Christmas with marvellous pastries (2017)
Tea time in Paris 7
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The gold bowls (ZEN) and the tea pots (LUCKY STAR and BRÛLE PARFUM) are from Mariage Frères. In addition, the bookcase dates from the 19th century and is in speckled mahogany and gilt bronze. Besides, the red silk peonies are from Wayfair … Continue reading
Easter sweets 2017
Christmas pastries : An enchantment for the palate and the eyes (2016)
A royal tea time with Marie-Antoinette at Nina’s in Paris
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Nina’s was orginally a perfume distillery company founded in 1672 by Pierre Diaz. This firm was the supplier of fragrances for King Louis XIV and the Court of Versailles. The Queen Marie-Antoinette liked particulary the lavender and rose fragrances. Today, … Continue reading