The French tradition for Epiphany, and throughout January, is to bake the 'King's Cake', or Galette des Rois. It is a round flaky puffed pastry filled with a frangipane or almond cream, inside which is hidden the fève, a little ceramic figurine. Whoever gets the fève in its slice, becomes King or Queen and gets to wear the crown! ...
French cuisine
Savoury Picnic Muffins With Goat Cheese, Dry Figs And Rosemary
With flowers blooming all around and the warm weather finally settling down here in Southern Finland, it feels like picnic season! To help you with your picnic basket, I prepared you today delicious gluten free muffins, flavored with soft goat cheese, dry figs and fragrant rosemary. How does it sound? {Recette en français à la fin de l'article} ...
Rhubarb And Strawberry Tart on Sablé Breton Shortbread
Rhubarb just made its come back on the market stalls, with its pretty pink skin, just waiting for me to bring it to my kitchen and bake a nice pie! I absolutely love rhubarb, it is a flavor of my childhood and reminds me of the happy times I spent in my grand father's fruitful garden. With Finnish Mother's Day coming up this week end, I ...
Chocolate & Quinoa At What’s Cooking Helsinki: Come Taste Provence Gluten Free
What’s Cooking Helsinki food carnival is happening this Saturday 8.4 at Teurastamo, the foodie district of Helsinki. The event is for all the food lovers, and I am excited to join this year and mingle with other passionate foodies! Food bloggers will hold cooking shows throughout the afternoon, in three show kitchens. At 14:40 I will be in the ...
No-Bake Spicy Chocolate Ganache Tart {Vegan}
I am obsessed with dark chocolate lately. Dark chocolate chunks in my Almond Butter Cookies, a dark chocolate dip for my Crisp Polenta Fingers... Last night I took it one step further and made these oh, so decadent spicy chocolate ganache tarts, with no-bake pie crust. One delicious way to kick off the weekend! ...
Crisp Sweet Polenta Fingers With Dry Fruits And Chocolate Dip
Tomorrow is Father's Day in Finland, and I am preparing a sweet treat inspired by chef Alain Ducasse, a godfather of French gastronomy. While polenta sticks are most commonly associated with savory fries, our beloved chef turn them into a dessert, how genious is that! My take on sweet polenta fingers are crisp and crunchy sticks, rich of seasonal ...
Sunday Morning Oat & Coconut Flour Pancakes With Maple Caramelized Apples {Rice-Free}
For the past weeks I baked pancakes every week end, often on easy Sunday mornings. I experimented with various combinations of flours, using dairy products or not, and I am finally confident I found THE recipe that is a keeper. The only rule I set for myself was: no rice flour! ...
Fresh Fig And Almond Cream Pie
The fig season is now! In northern Europe figs appearance on the market stalls is very short. So let's quickly bake a fresh fig pie, before the season ends! ...
Apple Pie From The Finnish Countryside
The mist is covering the Finnish countryside this morning, surrounding our apple trees loaded with ripe fruits. I am sipping a hot cup of green tea, watching the nature outside and enjoying that peaceful feeling, so unique to our Finnish cottage. We picked kilos of apples yesterday and I baked this simple but oh so flavorful apple pie. Sometimes ...
Provençal Vegetable Tian With Goat Cheese And Paprika Sauce
A tian is a classic Provençal dish, famously mistaken for ‘ratatouille’ in the Disney movie Ratatouille. Remember when Remy the rat reinterprets that French recipe? Well the outcome looks very much like a tian to me. Typically, the thinly sliced zucchinis, eggplants and tomatoes are beautifully layered in an earthenware dish called… a ‘tian’. ...