Just Baking

Though quiches and pies are a good idea. Flans are quicker to prepare and have the distinguished advantage to contain less calories. This cheddar and bacon flan is a great dish if there are a lot of people. Perfect dish of the moment ’cause let’s face it, January is a month for counting calories however the festive spirit has […]

You would think that , there is nothing simpler than THE original fruit, not quiet. “Now pay attention here comes ”the scientific bit””:
Apples are of the Rose family, they store well and still retain taste and nutritional values, contain vitamin C, no cholesterol & fibre, you get about 2 in a pound, average 110 calories. Supermarkets have […]

The other day, I got a request: “A beer cake, would be nice.” Were my ears deceiving me, beer and cake?  My brain was not making the connection, beer & cake who would have thought it but why not? Don’t you find it strange that wine is top of the list, followed by spirits when […]

At the week-end I saw a recipe for mussels and chard gratin. So intrigued I was, that I decided to google it, and you know what happens next: one thing leads to another, before I knew it, I got lost in hyperspace. This is when it happens, I spotted the following words: scalloped potato gratin. Wow, […]

It is not very often that I get to punch the air with my little fists and perform a dance. Therefore, it might have been a strange spectacle, for any onlooker, a few days ago to see me  doing so in the middle of the kitchen singing to word: tarte, tarte, tarte.
Of course the puzzled spectators did not have the script and could […]