All you need to know about french baking.
During the last 2 years I am regularly baking, I became a decent baker on Pizza, Focaccia, Brioche, kugelhopf (a regional brioche from est of France) and many others. Moved in the US with Anaïs last year, I have had the possibility to improve my main baking tool from a tiny oven to a decent typical US oven … Continue reading Pain de Campagne – Homemade loaf
For the reasons I've already explained in a previous article, you will sometimes bump into Italian recipes. The following one is quite tricky to bake - let's be honest, the first five attempts haven't been successful - but it absolutely worths to give it a try when you'll taste the result! Amaretti Sardi are from … Continue reading Amaretti Sardi – Bittersweet Almond Biscuits
It is well known, French people don't snack. Three meals a day is the rule, more or less copious depending on your agenda: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Following this pattern is probably the best nutritional advice I could give to somebody going on a diet to loose some weight. Yet, if while in France you're wandering in … Continue reading 4:30 pm – Le Goûter
While thinking about easy french recipes I could tell you more about, the Quatre-Quarts (literally four quarters) popped up. Very appreciated in Brittany, it is nothing else that what you usually call a Pound Cake. Nothing new, the quatre-quarts is baked with 4 ingredients used in same proportion as its name implies: sugar, eggs, butter, … Continue reading Le Quatre-Quarts – The Pound Cake
Happy Candlemas! Joyeuse Chandeleur! Candlemas is one of my favorite celebration. Every body in France dine of crêpes which can be sweet or savoury, even both. This event is known to be the candle feast, but also refers to a past tradition: the bear feast which was celebrating the awakening of the bear at the end of … Continue reading Happy Candlemas – Time for crêpes flipping!
Today, I am sharing with you my recipe of the famous galette des rois. It's easier to bake than you may think. First, a few words about this festive cake. In France, it is considered a major event to share this golden disk-shaped treat with your friends and family with the main purpose of drawing kings. We should … Continue reading La Galette des Rois – The King’s cake
OK, you're right. I'm hearing you. Brownie is certainly not a French specialty. Anyway, I thought it was the perfect recipe to inaugurate my brand new Chicago life as this delicious cake has been invented here. Usually I am not a brownie person; each times I bump into the recipe in a cookbook, I think: … Continue reading Chocolate Walnut Brownie – Born in Chicago
All began in 1872, when Hector, my Great Great Grand Father opened the Boulangerie-Pâtisserie Maës in the small town of Lesquin - North of France. Since then, the family business has been passed on and on from fathers to sons. My father has not been the elected one to take over the business but his … Continue reading A Sweet Family Tale
