A tie made of dish towel, by French design studio Atypyk.
31.3.10
29.3.10
March Hare
"The March Hare will be much the most interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won't be raving mad -- at least not so mad as it was in March." Lewis Caroll / Alice in Wonderland
New Easter Collection at Ladurée with the Chocolate Bunnies, and the Alice limited edition of macaron's box.
Easter Treats With Martha Stewart
Learn how to make the Chocolate Cake with Crepe Paper Flowers and Philo Nest, and also the Carrot Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting, on Martha Stewart's website.
25.3.10
24.3.10
My Pear Cake / Mon quatre-quarts aux poires
Probably one of the easiest cake recipe I know.
In French, it's called the quatre-quarts (4/4). You can mesure the number of eggs you have, and you will then need the same amount of each ingredients (flour, sugar and butter).
The Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 120g sugar
- 120g flour
- 120g salted butter
- 2 pears or apples
- 1 big spoon of baking powder
- optionnal chocolate chips
- Mix the sugar and the eggs.
- Melt the butter and then add it slowly to the previous ingredients.
- Add slowly the flour while mixing.
- Add the baking powder and some salt if the butter is not salted.
- Cut the apples or pears in cubes without the skin.
- Put the paste into a cake mould (buttered if needed), then add the fruits on top. You can now also add some chocolate chips.
- Put the cake in the oven for about an hour at 180∘Celsius. Check with a knife to see if the cake is crispy on the outside and soft and mellow on the inside.
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On fait difficilement plus simple qu'un quatre-quarts... Et c'est si bon!
Les Ingrédients
- 2 oeufs
- 120g de sucre
- 120g de farine
- 120g de beurre demi-sel
- 2 poires
- 1 càs de poudre à lever
- des pépites de chocolat en option
La Recette
- Mélangez le sucre et les oeufs.
- Faites fondre le beurre et ajoutez lentement.
- Ajoutez la farine tamisée.
- Ajoutez la poudre à lever.
- Coupez les poires en dés.
- Versez la pâte dans un moule à cake, ajoutez les poires et les pépites de chocolat.
- Enfournez dans un four préchauffé à 180C pendant environ 1 heure.
21.3.10
Lékué Yé Yé!
I'm a big fan of Lékué's inventions. Here are the Decopen for your cakes, and the C'Rush for your ice.
16.3.10
Cocorino, London - UK.
I discovered this really nice gelato and foccacia bar in London, it's called Cocorino. It's on 18 Thayer street, next to Bond street Tube station. You can have breakfast or pasta, antipasto or foccacia, gelato or pastries, drink fresh mint teas or smoothies.
My Mini Sausage Rolls
The Ingredients
- 12 sausages
- flaky pastry
- 1 egg
- poppyseeds
- sesame
- cumin
The Recipe
1. Take one sausage and roll it into the pastry. Cut it into small pieces of 3 cms. Repeat for all the sausages.
2. Put the egg yolk into a bowl and mix it with a fork or whip.
3. Apply egg yolk with a brush on all the sausages, then lay the cumin, poppyseeds and sesame on them.
4. Bake in oven for about 20 minutes at 180∘until the rolls are glazed.
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Les Ingrédients
- 12 saucisses
- de la pâte feuilletée
- 1 oeuf
- graines de pavot
- sésame
- cumin
La Recette
1. Take one sausage and roll it into the pastry. Cut it into small pieces of 3 cms. Repeat for all the sausages.
2. Put the egg yolk into a bowl and mix it with a fork or whip.
3. Apply egg yolk with a brush on all the sausages, then lay the cumin, poppyseeds and sesame on them.
4. Bake in oven for about 20 minutes at 180∘until the rolls are glazed.
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Les Ingrédients
- 12 saucisses
- de la pâte feuilletée
- 1 oeuf
- graines de pavot
- sésame
- cumin
La Recette
- Roulez les saucisses dans la pâte feuilletée. Coupez les en morceaux de 3cm.
- Avec un pinceau, badigeonnez avec le jaune d'oeuf.
- Saupoudrez sur une partie le sésame, sur une autre le cumin et sur une dernière le pavot.
- Enfournez pendant 20 min à 180C.
4.3.10
Sweet Bentos
I've always been fascinated with bento boxes. There are a lot of cool websites out there, here is one I've discovered recently : Adventure in Bentomaking, by Pikko.
LeWhif
Here is the new design for LeWhif, the chocolate inhaler. Harvard professor David Edwards and le Laboratoire invented LeWhif, which works like an inhaler filled with small chocolate particles. LeWhif was released last year but a new biodegradable version is out. It also now uses biological chocolate. It has been designed by SublimDesign agency, in Paris. At least the old version was, not sure about this one.
3.3.10
La Pâtisserie Des Rêves, Paris - France.
I've never been there yet but it is only a matter of time. La Pâtisserie des Rêves, by Philippe Conticini. I think the design of the shop was orchestred by Thierry Teyssier with the agency Lever De Rideau. The pastries are arranged under big glass covers, like a sort of laboratory.
La Pâtisserie des Rêves
93 rue du Bac - 75007 Paris
Colour Up Your Kitchen
My Fresh Springrolls / Rouleaux de printemps
The Ingredients (for approx. 30 rolls)
The Recipe
1. Cook the chicken with soy sauce, crushed fresh ginger and garlic. You can also marinate you meat a few hours before with those ingredients and some lemon juice.
2. Cook the noodles in boiling water, and make sure you rince them well with water, in your strainer.
3. In bowl of warm water, dip each rice paper wrapper for about 3-5 seconds. Do not over soak your rice paper wrapper.4. Lay a mint leave on the paper, in the middle. The add the lettuce, some meat and noodles. Don't put too much in there...You don't want it to crack.
5. Roll up spring roll about 1/3 way through, then fold in the sides, and continue to roll.6. Serve with hoisin peanut dip
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Les Ingrédients
- 30 rice papers (or more because you might mess up a few ones the first time)
- some lettuce
- fresh mint leaves
- 350g chicken
- ginger
- garlic
- dark soy sauce
- 500g chinese vermicelli noodles
- fresh soya bean sprouts
The Recipe
1. Cook the chicken with soy sauce, crushed fresh ginger and garlic. You can also marinate you meat a few hours before with those ingredients and some lemon juice.
2. Cook the noodles in boiling water, and make sure you rince them well with water, in your strainer.
3. In bowl of warm water, dip each rice paper wrapper for about 3-5 seconds. Do not over soak your rice paper wrapper.4. Lay a mint leave on the paper, in the middle. The add the lettuce, some meat and noodles. Don't put too much in there...You don't want it to crack.
5. Roll up spring roll about 1/3 way through, then fold in the sides, and continue to roll.6. Serve with hoisin peanut dip
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Les Ingrédients
- 30 feuilles de riz
- quelques feuilles de laitue
- menthe fraîche
- 350g de poulet
- gingembre
- 1 gousse d'ail
- sauce soja
- 500g de vermicelles de riz
- pousses de soja
Vous pouvez aussi ajoutez des carottes, concombres, crevettes, boeuf...
La Recette
- Cuire le poulet dans un wok avec l'ail et le gingembre. Déglacez à la sauce soja. Vous pouvez aussi le faire mariner préalablement avec du jus de citron en plus.
- Faites cuire vos nouilles et rincez les.
- Rincez une feuille de riz dans un bol d'eau tiède jusqu'à ce qu'elle ramolisse.
- Placez la sur un plan de travail puis disposez une feuille de laitue, une feuille de menthe, des nouilles, quelques morceaux de poulet et des pousses de soja.
- Fermez le bas de la feuille, rabattez les côtés puis roulez en serrant bien.
- Servez avec de la sauce cacahuètes
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