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.
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…