On the eve of Saint Nicholas, Belgian children place their shoes by the fireplace, hoping to wake up to clementines, chocolate coins, and the spiced, crunchy cookies that define this winter celebration: speculoos. These aren’t just any biscuits. They’re the…
The Alchemy of Ordinary Things There’s something about reading Maupassant that feels like biting into a perfectly ripe apple—the initial sweetness giving way to something more complex, even bitter, but utterly honest. His prose has that same quality of autumn…
Medieval Advent Calendar Day 13 Hello, dear friends, and welcome to our thirteenth day in the Medieval Advent Calendar. Today, things are getting spicy—literally, I mean, so let’s keep our minds focused on the culinary variety. Spices arriving from the…
Austrian Advent Calendar Day 4 Hello, dear friends, and happy Advent! For this fourth day of our Austrian Advent Calendar, I invite you to an afternoon coffee break accompanied by a delicious traditional Austrian dessert: the Linzer Torte. This elegant…
Scandinavian Advent Calendar Day 23 We’ve nearly reached the end of our Advent journey together, dear friends, and so I’ve saved one of the most endearing Scandinavian Christmas traditions for these final days. The quintessential Christmas dessert throughout Denmark, Sweden,…
Scandinavian Advent Calendar Day 21 Hello, dear friends! Today is December 21st—the winter solstice, the longest night of the year, when darkness reaches its fullest expression before beginning its slow retreat toward spring. Up north in the lands of the…
Ingredients : 500ml double cream (I used the light version that doesn’t work for whipped cream but is more digest in a panna cotta)40gr caster sugar3 gelatin sheets2-4 tablespoons rose water1 can of lycheesfresh raspberries With panna cotta, you always…
Ingredients : 400gr pineapple cubes (fresh or canned)250ml coconut cream3 sheets of gelatin / 2,5 tsp powder gelatin2 tbsp powder sugar Start by mashing the pineapple in a food processor. If you use fresh pineapple, cook it on medium heat…
For the Crêpes : 200gr plain flour4 eggs500ml of milkone vanilla pod or 1/4tsp crushed vanilla pods1 tbsp orange blossom essencebutter for the pan For the Salted butter caramel sauce : 100gr caster sugar70gr salted butter or unsalted + a…
Advent Calendar Day 16 What is Christmas without baking? That moment when spices meet heat and the entire house transforms into something magical—cinnamon and ginger weaving through rooms, cloves adding their sharp sweetness, the air itself becoming edible. It’s a…
