How are you doing out there? If you’re in the northern hemisphere, you’ll be rolling towards the end of the school year and the summer season. Whether this means you’ve got busy end of school-year activities on the go or you’re looking for quick and easy dinner solutions for the summer so you can get […]
French Fridays: French Appetizers
Yeah! Summer’s here (right? right? FINALLY!) and that can only mean one thing. Well, maybe two: #roseallday and #lheuredelapéro ! You’ll all know I am a huge fan of l’heure de l’apéro (though I am more likely to serve interesting French chips, cherry tomatoes and mixed nuts than make many items from scratch other than […]
Tuesdays with Dorie (Dorie’s Cookies): Old Bay Pretzel-and-Cheese Cookies
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is a fun little savoury cookie that is perfect for apéritif hour. Dorie says: For years, I wanted to make a cookie that would go with beer. From the start, I knew I wanted it to have pretzels and some cheese. I worked on the cookie […]
French Fridays: Warm chocolate cake with salted butter caramel sauce from My Paris Kitchen
There’s really not much to say about this week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen. It’s a warm (molten) chocolate cake served with salted butter caramel sauce. It’s the perfect dinner party dessert because you can make all the components in advance, refrigerating the batter in the ramekins and […]
Les Petits Chefs make Chopped Thai Salad from Modern Lunch (with Allison Day!)
Are you the eater of a sad desk lunch? Want to make lunch the meal you look forward to most? Well you need a copy of Allison Day’s latest book, Modern Lunch! From the publisher: Modern Lunch is the new lunchtime hero for time-strapped, budget-conscious, and salad-fatigued people everywhere. Focusing on healthy, quick–and, yes, Instagrammable–recipes […]
eat. live. travel. write. is TEN today!
Break out the bubbles because this blog turns 10 today! That’s right – on May 15th 2009, this blog was born… If you want to read the full story about how and why I started a blog all those years ago, you can sign up to receive my brand new newsletter! The first edition comes […]
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