Vivian is cooking... simple but delicious!

Galette des rois is a traditional french cake that is made for Epiphany (6 of January). It celebrates the arrival of the Three Wise Men in Bethlehem to visit baby Jesus.  It is composed of a puff pastry cake, and a small charm in china, the fève, is hidden inside. The person who finds it becomes the king or the queen of the day. It is usually filled with frangipane, a cream made from sweet almonds, butter, eggs and sugar but there are several other derivatives as well at modern times. I would like to thank Vanille, a girl of my son's class that put a recipe in their class blog and I could not resist and did it! It is so easy to make actually, check it for yourselves...

Happy birthday!   My son just turned 10 and here's the best birthday cake that I decided to make that makes the buzz on the web and makes heads turn on it's sight... The GRAVITY cake!!! My kids loved it, hubby thinks I'm a genius, friends were amazed and there were even people that took photos of it :)))) Special thanks to both of my children that helped me doing it, and my apologies to my daughter that I underestimated her capabilities as she has proved that often she is much better than me ! Kiss to hubby for the support, as always, to my crazy ideas. So, let's get back to the cake. Procedure goes like this...

What best to start the year than a recipe for a natural cleaner that apart from being natural thus environment-friendly, is fast, simple and cheap ? Not to mention that might work better than store brands. Your kids can make it easily too and use it, how about that??? Here it goes...

May this year is less violent than the previous one and people wi ll smile more! Let's all try to be more open-minded and try to find this little kid inside us... Happy New Year 2017!