Now that it’s summer, even I can’t always have sweet cakes for brunch and breakfast. Baking is also not that great an idea if the apartment is already heated up through the sun… If it’s warm I feel like something lighter instead, something without the carbs and without cream or butter as cutting the calories a […]
This kind of muffin caught my eye on a recent morning in a little local NY coffee shop – it wasn’t called ‘black bottom muffin’ but ‘farmer’s friend’. After a bit of online research I found that most people seem to call them ‘black bottom cupcake’ but there are also some names featuring farmers, […]
I am back in NY for a few weeks (yay!) and this means that I am living in a short let apartment that is not quite set up for baking adventures. There’s no scales, no whisks, no baking tins and none of all the other small and large utensils needed. So I had to come […]
I have just come back from a place where dates grow – no, not the Middle East but the Californian dessert. Dates are a big deal over there and you get them at all the markets and they feature in some dishes – and even milkshakes! I had the tastiest date milkshake at the Hadley Fruit […]
Ok, I admit it. Spending the winter in London means that I don’t actually have Snow Days (let alone snow, it seems). But seeing so many of my friend’s Facebook updates and Instagram photos about them recently made we wish I did and I wondered what I would do if I would have a snowed […]
The Sweetest Brunch 