After the excesses of the festive season, I always fancy eating really healthy. However food is such an important thing for me that I am not ready to compromise on taste! I have never managed to follow any of these "I-don't-eat-tasting-things" fad diet and it is not going to start now :-) This green beans [...]
Are you all geared up for Christmas? In our family we still have (quite) a few bits to do but I'm confident everything will be sorted out before D-Day :-) This year we will be spending the holiday period in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, in my husband’s family. Alsace is really magical at that time of [...]
When I was a child, I was living in what one would call a small town: 15,000 inhabitants. Once in a while we would go to the big town close by, it was THE big trip... As a chocolate lover, my mum would take us for a treat to a dream chocolate shop created back [...]
This is it! Christmas is around the corner, only 19 sleeps left! In Alsace, we celebrate this special day – la Saint Nicolas - with manneles, men-shaped milk rolls which are served for the children’s goûter (4pm snack) traditionally with hot chocolate. Since the 12th century, it is said that Saint Nicolas goes from houses [...]
La tarte au thon, the tuna tart, is one of those dishes that you can just assemble in five minutes and simply leave to cook in the oven. If you combine this with the fact that it is delicious, it is clearly a favourite in our house! There are about the same number of tartes [...]
