Fire in My Neighbourhood

This morning Mr. H. and I were enjoying a quiet spring morning with some coffee and croissants, when all of a sudden there was a strong burning smell. I went out to the… Read More →

An Even Better Improvement: Strawberry and Banana Mascarpone Smoothie

Strawberries are still in season here. I do like smoothies, and today I am going to add another one onto my (especially strawberry) smoothie growing database. The last one I showed you was… Read More →

Homemade Hamburger with Melting Maroilles Cheese

This will be my last recipe that comes from that Maroilles cheese. I mean from that same piece. You see, I do hope I’ll have more pieces of Maroilles in the future. Out of… Read More →

Interview with Garfield

Today as I was looking around WordPress, I saw something out of the corner of my eye that suddenly caught my interest. It was The Daily Prompt, which I had never participated in, with The… Read More →

Empek-empek, Now Made by Me! And Adapted with Local Ingredients

Today I’m very proud of publishing this post about my first time cooking empek-empek. Why am I proud of it? I suppose because of  sentimental reasons, because my mum makes it and it… Read More →

Maroilles Cheese for Breakfast

Do you remember that Maroilles cheese I had? I also had it for breakfast. Mr. H. said to me that some people in France actually eat Maroilles cheese with a slice of bread… Read More →

From the Food Cosmos #10

I hope you’ve all been enjoying a wonderful weekend! Here are some interesting links From the Food Cosmos recently: I’ve never made pickled anything, but The New York Times shows us (and myself)… Read More →

Listening to Sokolov at the Palau de la Música

The other night I went to a concert in the Palau de la Música played by the Russian pianist Grigory Sokolov. In my previous post from yesterday I included a message about being excited… Read More →

Impromptuing Again with Spicy Sambal Prawns

The other day I did another culinary impromptu. Big time, in the sense that I was heating the oil already and still hadn’t decided what to do with my prawns. Does anybody do… Read More →

My First Ever Attempt at Jam Making, or How to Turn Strawberries into Figs

I made jam for the first time ever. I had been wanting to make jam for a long time, but some irrational thought in me had always thought that there must be some… Read More →

Strawberry Smoothie… With Mascarpone!

It’s still spring and strawberry season. Thus I couldn’t go on for much longer without another strawberry smoothie. This time with some Mascarpone cheese added to it. I can seriously confirm that the… Read More →

Quick Tip for Garlic

I do like some garlic. It spices up your food. We all know it helps ward off against vampires too! Anyway, I thought I’d share a quick tip for eliminating the offensive garlic… Read More →