Season greetings!

Season greetings 

to all of you and your families! 

Prepare :

• "Kourambiedes", the xmas almond cookies, 
• "Melomakarona", honey cookies
• and cook "Stuffed turkey"  

[Originally published on Dec 6, 2015]

Xmas Swiss roll (buche de Noel) with mascarpone

Merry Xmas with a swiss roll!

 

[Originally published on Dec 24, 2016]
Not a classic one, with mascarpone cheese that is my favorite.
Actually, tiramisu is the most popular recipe in this blog thanks to this cheese, so why not to try one?
I would like to thank Raphael who inspired me with his traditional swiss roll that was a smash!
Thanks also to my daughter that made the final touch with her decoration *kiss*

Time is not money but rest in this festive period, so I will cut short and give you the details :)
 

All the best to you and your dear ones! May this period is restful and calm...

Chocolate chip muffins

Start your day with them!

A classic recipe that still not so easy to find that works well...
So, here it is my favorite!

Best cinnamon rolls ever!

Want to try the BEST cinnamon rolls on the planet? Then you have to go to Iceland !
Or just try my

cinnamon rolls!

Just came back from a road trip to discover this beautiful country with the dramatic scenery and our eyes are full of majestic waterfalls, lava fields, startling geysers and so much more :)
But let's concentrate to cinnamon rolls today.

There are several quality bakeries (called "Bakari" in Icelandic) and the two best that I can definitely suggest to try are : Braud&co and Passion in Reykjavik. The first one had the best cinnamon rolls on earth!!! that they are caller "kanil snudur" in icelandic btw.
You can imagine my first thought coming back from my trip:

redo my recipe of cinnamon rolls!

What a best way to start the new school year :)
Not to forget the lamb, btw. You have to try the lamb in Iceland... just delicious!

My favorite restaurant was outside of Reykjavik, close to Kerid crater: Þrastalundur.
I tried their lamb and family their pizzas ... best ever pizzas on earth too !!!
Happy traveling! 
    

Oat flake and chocolate chips cookies

Great and healthy cookies full of oat flakes but also with chocolate!
Let your children play and make them for you, sooooo easy :)

Vanilla flan

Easy summer recipe discovered through my Spanish neighbor (thnx!) Really fast to prepare but needs to be prepared a day ahead!

My first book !

Happy birthday to me!!!

You won't believe what I got as a birthday gift (which was yesterday btw :) ...
my blog printed as a book !!!
If that is not a cooool gift ever ...
It's been a long time that I wanted to do such a thing but it takes so much time editing a book that I was always postponing it.
And my dear hubby did it for me!!!

You cannot imagine my emotions ....

My dear, it's a precious gift, those five years of my (our !) life through cooking and baking in a stylish book. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking all those long hours to do such a thing for me that you kept top secret with kids ...

Have a look at it... isn't it gorgeous??? and it's even better in real :P

Moist coconut cake

I really love coconut and one of my favorite greek cakes is the coconut Ravani.
Given that it has a syrup, it makes it quite heavy in calories though. So, I was looking for a cake with coconut that is close to ravani but lighter.
Find today this version that I tried and I really liked a lot...

the moist coconut cake ! 

(In french we could call it "gateau moelleux au noix de coco")
If you like coconut, you have to try this easy but tasty version!

I cannot cook without them !

It's been a long time that I wanted to write an article about it... my favourite cookware!

Today is the day to start...
Here there are my favourite cooking cookware and other tools will follow soon:

• the enamed roaster BEKA, 42cm, for cooking in the oven
• it keeps the oven clean, food is delicious, meat is kept soft, it's easily cleaned
• the pressure cooker Fissler Vitavit, 10lt, 26cm, induction
• for fast, design, high-tech, healthy cooking
• the TEFAL ingenio wok pan, 26 cm, induction
• non-stick, easily cleaned, keeps moisture
• (more to come soon)   

How about yours?

St. Valentine's day

Want to find an excuse to try this
triple chocolate mousse cake?

How about St. Valentine's day ? (Indeed, it is today, 14 of February :)

Otherwise, anything with nutella will do!

February 2 the day of crepes in France!

In France, February 2 (yesterday) is the day of crepes.
They call this day "Chandeleur" (Candlemas in english) and it is linked to religion (commemorate the purification of Virgin Mary and the presentation of baby Jesus)
but practically, people are making and consuming lots of crepes. 
You won't believe the amount of Nutella, and rest of ingerdients that are consumed those days.
As this is the weekend the closest to the Chandeleur, here's a recipe reminder to succeed your crepes and here is one for pancakes if you are too lazy for crepes :)

Happy Chandeleur!!!

Nutellotti, the nutella cookies!

Who doesn't like Nutella? So, imagine a recipe full of Nutella in a form of cookies and only 3 ingredients... Nutellotti... Yummy! A popular recipe, that had to be in my blog too.
Thanks to my dear daughter, crazy in love with Nutella, we made together those marvelous cookies and ate them all in once!

Ingredients (only 3!)
180gr of Nutella
1 egg
150gr of flour for cakes

Kurtos Kalacs or chimney cakes

This romanian pastry that is called Kurtos Kalacs, is often called in english chimney cakes. It's a fluffy yeast dough (similar to brioche) that is sweetened rolling them to a sugar and cinnamon mix, sometimes even in ground walnuts, and at old times used to be served in weddings. Nowdays, we can find them in small street kiosks that bake them in coal grills.
Hubby tried them first in Prague on a trip for his work and came back telling that it was so soft and delicious that I would surely love it!
I searched for the recipe on the web and indeed I found how to make them at home but eventually never tried them. It took me a couple of years until I would taste them in Budapest (I liked them so much that there was no day passing without eating at least two!!!) But still coming back home, I did not dare to try making them... until one evening, coming back home from a busy day, hubby had made them for me!!! That was a nice surprise :)
So, here it is our homemade Kurtos based on the following 2 recipes found online (thank you both!):

• http://honestcooking.com/kurtoskalacs-chimney-cake/ (Honest cooking)
• http://pearlsofbaking.blogspot.fr/2013/11/chimney-cake-kurtos-kalacs.html?m=1 (Pearls of baking) 

*** Beware, you have to find several carton moulds (from paper towels) before doing the recipe ***