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I did not
remember that it was Valentine’s Day till my husband called early this morning.
The excitement of my morning chores and making sure the daughter had her breakfast
and reached her classes on time tends to drive things like this out of my mind
till later in the day.

But there’s no
escaping Valentine’s Day with gaudy pink and red hearts and oversized cuddly
teddy bears in shop

I love almonds – they’re my favorite nut. But for far too long I avoided recipes that called for almond paste because I’ve never seen the ingredient around here. Then it suddenly hit me: if I made eggnog from scratch for a pound cake recipe, why not almond paste? I do not know why it took my brain so long to come to that conclusion.
The homemade almond paste – recipe from this gorgeous book

Eclair is one of those things I´ve been wanting to make for the longest time
ever - besides macarons.  There´s something about french pattiserie which
makes me shy away from attempting to make it before I met my guru.  I
remember the countless times I stare admiringly into bloggers whom clearly
has the talent and patience for it and there I was then asking

This week, the temperature here dipped to nearly zero during the night.  The
chillness was not spared during the day with lots of wind and rain coming to our
direction-  It is near impossible not to switch my usual salad and main dinner to
something more substantially rich and fulfilling lately and one of the thing I have
been craving for is a good piece

I do hope all my friends and readers of MKT had a fabulous New year.I know it is a tad bit late to ask about Newyear but then here they say the whole month of January you can wish new year :-)I wanted to share a super dessert I made for Christmas eve party, but then I got this New lens from Hans as a present so I wanted to try that lens for taking food picture so instead of posting that super

I do hope all my friends and readers of MKT had a fabulous New year.I know it is a tad bit late to ask about Newyear but then here they say the whole month of January you can wish new year :-)I wanted to share a super dessert I made for Christmas eve party, but then I got this New lens from Hans as a present so I wanted to try that lens for taking food picture so instead of posting that super

I do hope all my friends and readers of MKT had a fabulous New year.I know it is a tad bit late to ask about Newyear but then here they say the whole month of January you can wish new year :-)I wanted to share a super dessert I made for Christmas eve party, but then I got this New lens from Hans as a present so I wanted to try that lens for taking food picture so instead of posting that super

I do hope all my friends and readers of MKT had a fabulous New year.I know it is a tad bit late to ask about Newyear but then here they say the whole month of January you can wish new year :-)I wanted to share a super dessert I made for Christmas eve party, but then I got this New lens from Hans as a present so I wanted to try that lens for taking food picture so instead of posting that super

I do hope all my friends and readers of MKT had a fabulous New year.I know it is a tad bit late to ask about Newyear but then here they say the whole month of January you can wish new year :-)I wanted to share a super dessert I made for Christmas eve party, but then I got this New lens from Hans as a present so I wanted to try that lens for taking food picture so instead of posting that super

I do hope all my friends and readers of MKT had a fabulous New year.I know it is a tad bit late to ask about Newyear but then here they say the whole month of January you can wish new year :-)I wanted to share a super dessert I made for Christmas eve party, but then I got this New lens from Hans as a present so I wanted to try that lens for taking food picture so instead of posting that super