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strawberry + raspberry chocolate bark

Woodland walks and cosy meals = a weekend well spent

I’m so happy that it’s now light enough in the mornings to run outside rather than on a treadmill

Kate Baer’s poem on friendship always feels appropriate on Valentine’s / galentine’s day.

blood orange vegan crêpes

In France pancake day takes place on Candlemas (2 February) rather than on Shrove Tuesday as it does in the UK. I enjoyed my crêpes with juicy blood oranges, which I found in my local farm shop, rather than the traditional lemon, and liberally sprinkled with sugar.

I cannot bottle late December joy, but I can make marmalade

The one bright spot in early January is that the bakeries are teeming with galettes des rois, traditionally eaten to celebrate Epiphany on 6 January (today!). There are many versions depending on where you live, but in northern France I most often see the puff pastry frangipane variety.

Since today is Epiphany and it’s my first day back …

The downside of going away for 2 weeks in midwinter is that you come home to a subarctic apartment.

Warming up with an improvised pasta, kale and white bean soup loosely based on a recipe in the BBC Goodfood mag I picked up at a motorway service station last week. One-pot recipes will always beat literally everything else.

My last day off - headed back to Paris today and normal life. Very much going to miss the slow mornings, scented with coffee and pine.

I took a break over Christmas but wanted to share this chocolate log I made! Recipe needs work so that will be for next year ;)

The Yule log, to me, is not some beautifully inaccessible patisserie but a delicious homemade dessert, made by a relative and usually eaten on Boxing Day in my family. And rather than being a traditional roll, it…

Marmalade day! 🐻