This post has been months in the making. Literally. Those of you who know me in real life will know that patience is not one of my strong points and that I am terrible at keeping secrets so you’ll understand the enormity of this! So here goes, here are some words I never imagined I’d […]
French Fridays: The Madeleine Project
This is a challenging review to write without giving away too much of the story, but I guess I can’t just say “This is an amazing, surprising and thoroughly addictive read – go buy it now”, can I? 😉 From the publisher: A young woman moves into a Paris apartment and discovers a storage room […]
Les Petits Chefs make Jamie Oliver’s Lemony Courgette Linguine
If you have followed me on Instagram over the past couple of weeks, you’ll have noticed I’ve been cooking up a storm from Jamie Oliver’s latest book, Quick and Easy Food. (it’s not out in Canada until October but I ordered the UK version because 1. I’m impatient and 2. It’s metric. ‘Nuff said) A […]
Walking (part of) the Camino de Santiago: Navarrete to Nájera
Those of you who follow me on Instagram will know that this summer, I spent 7 days walking around 120km along the Camino de Santiago, from Logroño to Burgos in Spain. This was the second leg of the Camino that I started in 2016 (if you’re interested, I wrote a Q&A post in response to […]
French Fridays: Potato, feta and basil tortilla from My Paris Kitchen
This week’s Cook the Book Fridays recipe from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen was a simple tortilla – a thick Spanish omelette/ frittata, typically served at room temperature. This was an easy one I made when I was in Australia last month for a quick dinner, accompanied with a salad, because I thought it would […]
No bake hazelnut vanilla energy bites
This post is sponsored by Penotti Canada. For this month’s Penotti Canada recipe, I chose to work with the Duo Penotti Hazelnut and Vanilla Spread (which contains no artificial colours, flavours or preservatives and is made with sustainable ingredients). It has a really subtle hazelnut flavour and is fairly sweet and I enjoyed it sparingly […]
Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Brown Butter Peach Tourte
This week, the Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi is a peach pie of the best kind. Made with Dorie’s sweet tart dough, this pie/ tourte is filled with fresh peaches that have spent some time in some brown butter (to give them a lovely nutty flavour). SO good, especially now when peaches […]
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