I never understood the fuss about French Macarons until I tried the Passion Fruit as well as the Persian Rose Macarons at Chantal Guillon’s in Palo Alto. I think I bought a package of 20 Macarons for myself and a smaller package of 10 for my friend Irina. I ate the first one in the car on the ride…
Ah – Valentines Day – my friend Beatrice just asked me about my Valentines Plan. I told her I have none and that I am not a big fan of this day. According to the commercials that are running 24/7 the week of Valentines Day the humble ones under us desire overpriced roses and really bad…
What a week! The Seahawks beat the Denver Broncos, 43-8, on Sunday to win their first National Football League championship in franchise history- and entire Seattle was in Seahawks trance. This must have been the least productive week in Seattle’s history. On Monday everybody was hung over from the Sunday celebration (including myself), on Tuesday the…
Another get-together with my gluten intolerant friend(s) yielded a fabulous new crepe recipe for me and I couldn’t be happier so that for the past week I am making myself a crepe almost every day. I think I ate crepes in Germany but where I really learned the art of crepes was in Paris. I…
I’ve heard about “Gluten Free”, I’ve seen gluten free products but I have never tasted them – that’s until a couple of weeks ago when I took on the challenge to bake gluten free cinnamon rolls. I say “Challenge” because I’ve heard some of my not so gluten tolerating friends comment about their breads and…
First day of the New Year and I am posting my first 2014 recipe – a good sign hopefully that I will be able to post a lot of my recipes this year. I had a fabulous Christmas time, a week off and really not a lot to do, so lots of time to cook and bake.…
Chocolate Mousse truly is a love affair of mine. I love everything about it, the process of melting the chocolate and smelling it, the smell of the vanilla and cream, the fluffiness of the entire dessert and the rich velvety taste of the chocolate. I know American’s love their chocolate but I think more in…
I’ve had chocolate covered strawberries many times and its not the most fascinating desert but I still like making them for desert for a crowd and I never have any left over, everybody loves chocolate covered strawberries. They also look really pretty, are easy to make and this version has a little twist by spiking the…
A German in Seattle 