20% Discount on my Cookbook during pre-Christmas Shopping Time

Just a quick post to start off the week with good news! I offer a 20% Discount on my Cookbook to whoever will buy it during this pre-Christmas gifts shopping time! And for a (very) limited time, you can even get an extra 5% Discount by entering the Code EVG15 when checking out your cart….

Salmon Cheesecake

I hate wasting food. We live the modern life, wrongly thinking that (in general) the more we consume the happier we are, or likewise (in particular) the more food we can buy the healthier we seem to live. Both of these statements are very wrong.  When I shop for my groceries, I often try not to…

My Blog has got a Liebster Award!

I’m so happy to announce that I’ve been nominated for the Liebster Award! If you don’t know what the Liebster Award is, here’s the thing: it’s an award from the blogosphere (aka other bloggers) that rewards new bloggers for their publishing work on a personal or professional blog. In my case, I have been nominated by…

My First Thanksgiving Dinner Party Ever Needed a Rehearsal

2015 will remain in my memories as the year I hosted my first Thanksgiving Dinner Party ever. It’s been a great success (yay!) but as a real beginner I’ve made two little mistakes at once from the start: inciting my friends to immediately savage my meal with their hungry forks and knives because everything looked so good and yummy, and…

Apt, Gordes and Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Provence, France

When I visited Luberon region in September 2014, my friends and I went first to visit the famous Provençal Colorado of Rustrel, which I wrote about when I just started this blog. The last day of the weekend, we drove around throughout the day and went from one lovely Provence village to the next, before going back to Nice….

4 Layers Nacho Dip

I think the activity that matters to me the most in my life is LEARNING. I call it an activity because I don’t let things just come up and teach me lessons, I mean I really go for “it”, for just anything actually, as long as I end up learning something, injecting something new into my brain,…

Hiking and Eating Fondue in La Foux d’Allos, Alps, France

Enjoying a last hike in the mountain before winter’s snow begins to fall always is very energizing, especially because it often comes with typical local meals from the mountains, and most of them are based on melting gooey cheese (which I love with an absolute and unconditional passion)! Also – and because we must not forget that I’m…

One Pot Chicken Thighs and Lemon Rice

So last night, we had friends over for dinner. Yes, it was on a Tuesday night after a long day at work, and I had to rush home to get myself started in the kitchen, but I’ve found out I could cook a perfect recipe within no time, and rejoice my guests’s palate with soft…

Crunchy Falafels, Israel.

Tonight I’ve made a MAJOR discovery while preparing Shabbath dinner. My husband and I were discussing earlier about improving (always more) our favorite recipes, and about making hummus and my homemade falafels which recipe is available by clicking this very link. All of a sudden, following a short silence and a quick look at each…

Yogurt and Oven-Baked Apples with Cinnamon and Walnuts

Since I’ve lived in China for many years, eating dessert has become the opposite of mandatory for me at the end of a meal. I even ended up not enjoying so much anymore the taste of sweet foods, and developed a larger interest for savory dishes. But my husband hasn’t lived in Asia, and he has…

Jiao Zi, Vegetarian Dumplings, China.

This recipe of Chinese Ravioli is included in my book, but a little freebie is nice to give away from time to time, isn’t it?! Besides, it has been so far one of my hardest World Food Challenge, so I’m glad I can talk about it here! What’s not included in my book though, and…

Wild Mushrooms Stew

Fall is usually not my favorite season of the year. This year though, I’ve decided that being grumpy about it would do me no good whatsoever, and that I could actually make an effort trying to find out what lots of people actually love about this time of the year. And I think I’ve made a…