Follow your favorite blogs!

Bloglovin' helps you follow the blogs you read by letting you know when they update.

Sign up »
foodbeam
www.foodbeam.com
99
pâtisserie & sweetness
#14011 in All

Comme un lait fraise

As I mentionned yesterday, I will now be writing somewhere else. Not because I’m not in like with foodbeam anymore, but because it feels right. Just like the moment I share with the coolest kid...

02 jan 11

She fell in love with the seaside – A year has passed

This past year was a tumble. A dive that started – what felt like – a few seconds ago. Possibly with a busy sunday lunch at the restaurant, with only Guillaume and I doing service. And to...

31 dec 10

Le vingt-trois – Dans la cuisine

[The twenty-third - In the kitchen] Twenty-three days after I started writing here daily to celebrate the upcoming holiday, I have a confession to make. A lot of words have been left unspoken, a lot ...

24 dec 10

Le vingt-deux – Quand bûche de Noël rime avec FAIL

[The twenty-second - When Christmas log rhymes with FAIL] I believe that some things are bound to happen. Things like a major failure. A failure that shows that wine might be good in your risotto, bu...

23 dec 10

Le vingt-et-un – Fudge au beurre de cacahuètes

[The twenty-first - Peanut butter fudge] It was a day before the winter solstice. The service finished late. But we quickly threw our whites to the piling laundry, only to venture into the real white...

21 dec 10 2 people like this

Le dix-neuf – Through the viewfinder of a Pentax ME Super

I thought I would go straight to bed today. Without dropping by to say hello. Oh yes, I thought of my very favourite blanket and the quietness of the snow-coated night ahead. What I didn’t think abou...

20 dec 10

Le dix-huit – Through the viewfinder of a Minolta Instant Pro

This Minolta Instant Pro is the latest camera I got. Another day of summer. This one, three years later and a thousand of kilometres away. It landed in London after a night made of biding on ebay. Wh...

19 dec 10 1 person likes this

Le dix-sept – Through the viewfinder of a Canon 400D

I got the Canon 400D during a perfect day of summer, back on the cote d’azur – la cote or le sud, as we call it, us expats. It was around July 2007. I bought it new, with the kit lens – a...

17 dec 10

Le seize – Des betteraves et un gâteau

[The sixteenth - Beets and a cake] Two days, four bowls of Thai chicken soup, twenty hours of sleep, and a singing cab driver later, I’m finally emerging from the nightmare that flu is. Only to...

16 dec 10

Le treize – Bonbons, sprinkles et un gâteau secret

[The thirteenth - Candy, sprinkles and a secret cake] At times, things seem a little less easy. An unheard alarm. A lost friend. A worrying thought. But we adapt. Not because we have to, but because ...

14 dec 10

Le douze – Une astuce pour foncer easy

[The twelfth - A trick for an easy tart-ring lining] It sure sounds slightly awkward and long in English. I mean, line a tart ring with sweet pastry? Foncer seems so much easier. And it is in fact. E...

13 dec 10

Le onze – Tarte surprise aux noix de pécans

[The eleventh - Surprise pecan pie] I wish I could talk about how much I love recreating classics or old favourites. I find it’s the perfect way to highlight the beauty of what was once created...

12 dec 10

Le dix – Instant love gift guide

[The eleventh - A gift-guide for camera lovers] It might be my very own wish-list, but I’m pretty sure you know someone who loves capturing the everyday through a camera. Happy shopping (only t...

10 dec 10

Le neuf – Des cookies au chocolat et aux pretzels dans un pot

[The ninth - Chocolate and pretzels cookies in a jar] The house smells like mulled wine. Fairy-lights have been plugged. Cookies have been sent in a jar. A wreath has been hung at the door. It really...

09 dec 10 2 people like this

Le huit – Obsessions culinaires, winter edition

Snow can fool us into believe winter is here. When really it’s not. And even after it came and went, the sharp winds still gives us goosebumps no matter how many layers of mittens, hats and sc...

08 dec 10 1 person likes this

Le sept – Un voyage dans le temps avec les annual awards of excellence

[The seventh - Time travel with the annual awards of excellence] There is no way I could phrase the following in a pretty and grammatically-accurate way, so let’s get it out straight away. And ...

08 dec 10

Le six – Trois petites choses et une tarte tatin au kaki

[The six - Three little things and a persimmon tatin tart] Today felt short. It was frosty. And made of more mise-en-place making than you could imagine. I’m now in love with my bed; its millio...

07 dec 10

Le cinq – Comment glacer un cupcake?

[The five - How to frost a cupcake?] Before we learn how to frost a cupcake, let me tell you that it might only be the fifth day, and I might already have all the pictures made and processed, the ill...

06 dec 10 2 people like this

Le quatre – Cupcakes au thé matcha

This cupcake and I, we had quite a day. Everything felt just fine, until I grabbed the vintage container filled with flour wondering whether it was plain or strong. The lid was orange. And somehow, i...

04 dec 10 2 people like this

Le trois – Un livre: Quay, Peter Gilmore

“Nature has provided me with a large palette to work from and, in turn, my presentation has become far more organic in an attempt to represent the natural world.” Seasons – and more generally, ...

03 dec 10 1 person likes this

Le deux – Petits pots de crème au chocolat

[The second - Chocolate pots de crème] It’s certainly no exaggeration to say that, no matter how we looked forward to it, winter has swallowed us with its thick coat of snow. One morning, the tempera...

02 dec 10 2 people like this

Le calendrier de l’avent

Right now, it’s dark outside. And it’s cold. So cold. From my bed, I can’t help but gaze through the window, only to spot the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. Twirling sno...

01 dec 10

Shut your eyes – Terrine de pommes caramelisées et streusel à la cannelle

Dreams are tough. High maintenance. You see after a short five-day week of work, my pile of laundry threatens to swallow my bedroom, the hair pompom I not-so carefully tie has become a knot that now ...

30 nov 10 1 person likes this

Night seems to talk to every wall – Chocolate chip cookies, like muffins

There is something about early nights that feels like magic. It can be the glimmer of cheap ikea candles that smell of vanilla. Or the warmth of a pair of chunky mittens. Or perhaps for you, it’s the...

12 nov 10 2 people like this

An everyday-kind of happiness – Spinach and cheddar muffins

There are things you can never ignore. At times, you wish you’d forgotten; crab hunting, kissing in the wind, eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, drinking beer by the bottle, killing flies, li...

27 oct 10 1 person likes this

Time to forgive the winter – Apple, cinnamon and walnut strudel

I believe in traditions. Mostly, when the air starts to get crisp and the sunsets early. We have breakfast for dinner. We take pictures out of the doors. We continue knitting a scarf, which was first...

07 oct 10 1 person likes this

Encore un tout petit peu, et ce sera un autre jour – Tarte meringuée et gâteau de voyage au citron

[Just a bit longer and it will be another day - Lemon meringue tart and lemon cake] If at times, nature compels us to slow down, I must admit I was slightly surprised when I saw the first lemons on m...

27 sep 10 2 people like this

I’m moving past the feeling – On brownies 2.0 and autumnal desserts

It seems we made brownies. Yes those brownies. In between sleeping on the beach, sipping through Pastis glasses, finding a name for the small pâtisserie I will own – one day – in France, ...

21 sep 10 1 person likes this

Always and forever more – An attempt at riz-au-lait ice-cream

Today, I could tell you a long story. From the day I ate riz-au-lait for the first time in years, to the moment I thought it could make a pretty good ice-cream. From the point I actually boiled some ...

17 sep 10

Le jour le plus froid du monde – Pop corn panna cotta

[The coldest day in history - Pop corn panna cotta] Some people might tell you that all you need in a kitchen are a good knife, a pan, and a wooden spoon. Although I do love the concept of minimalism...

25 aug 10

You are no longer following . Undo?