This is “my” château , well, kind of. I see it every day on my way home.
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When I have enough time I like to bake my own bread. I takes about 3 1/2 hours but don’t worry, the real work in it is only about 15 minutes . For my basic bread I use: 400 g flour type 405 100 g fine semolina 1 package dry yeast 15 g sugar 15 g salt 330 ml tepid water You can simply double the ingredients if you would like to have more dough or use half of it[...]
This was such a beautiful sunset. I filmed it last year and found it again on my harddisk today. So I quickly opened a new YouTube account and will upload more videos, soon. I hope, you like it .
Today my clients had a little present for me. I loooove presents but who doesn’t? Last week they went to Japan to see the famous cherry blossom. One day, I have to do this, too. What a great gift. I really love natural room perfums. By the way, I have to write a post about Papier d’Armenie, too. Anyway, these incence sticks are sooo great. They have “the clean, cool scent of a mountain stream”.
Last week we decided to make some Muffins. Never made them before. I think we opened Pandora’s Biscuit Box now. They are sooo yummy! First we started with some Vanilla Muffins with Chocolate Chips. As you can see they decided to stay in their forms. No Muffin Heads! Well, next time: more backing powder . Ah, better. But they are not so soft and juicy as they should be. Not bad, but could be better. So: Google me an all[...]
Ok, family is back to Germany. Although it is always nice to have family around one thing is fact: you get nothing done. Therefore let me start with a review of this weekend. First we headed down to Rennes to visit IKEA. Of course we bought something. Will post about it because I think it is really handy. After that we went to our favourite Asia Shop and bought some fresh noodles, coriander, mini pak choi, soy bean sprouts and[...]
This is one of my favourite recipes especially since I have been living in Brittany which is famous for its seafood like oysters – huitres, lobsters – homards and scallops – coquilles Saint-Jacques. During the scallop season in winter to early spring I try to cook this dish at least once a month because nothing beats fresh scallops. The recipe itself comes from Jamie Oliver but I adapted it a bit over the years . I use red lentils because[...]
La Livresse is a little Café or Salon de Thé located in the Rue Georges Clemenceau, the main street of Saint Servan. It is an old Boucherie and when you enter it the first time you feel like leaving this century behind you with the doorstep, arriving in an early 1900 french Café. I can not say something about the quality of the dishes the owner and chef is serving for lunch but if they are only half as good[...]
This is a new category on this blog. I will post some french music here because there are still some really good songwriters in France. And he is one of them. His name is Bénabar and the song À la Campagne is from his new album Infréquentable. Lyrics:
Ouch! The first day in the garden after the winter is really the hardest. Did not now that the human body has so many muscles. The weather here in Brittany is now stable for almost a week and everybody around me already started working in their gardens weeks ago. So we decided to get our lazy bones out in the sunshine and started with our kitchengarden v2.0 or little Holland, as we call it now . This means compared to[...]
