Don’t you just hate coming back from holiday? You arrive back all relaxed and full of optimistic plans about how you are going to rearrange your schedule to do more yoga/cooking/writing/ sleeping/whatever… and within days you feel so worn down by the realities of daily life that you need another holiday.
Click here for a full portionRecipe for a perfect Alpine summer holiday
Ingredients: 1 apartment in a secluded chalet in the shadow of Mont Blanc and the Aguille du Midi (see above) 3 local kittens and their mom for hours of entertainment a generous handful of snowy mountain peaks a sprinkling of glaciers 2 spectacular cable car rides […]
Click here for a full portionSinful dark chocolate & raspberry cupcakes
Hooray! I have an internet connection again! This is CookSister coming to you live from Geneva, so do pardon me if this post is not as long and detailed as those that you are used to. My excuse is that the sun is shining, and the city is calling – far too nice a day […]
Click here for a full portionSpicy salmon fillets with fresh herb salsa
As we all know by now, women are from Venus and men are from Mars, and I very much doubt that anybody who is married will dispute this. On Mars, apparently, technology is far more advanced than it is here on Earth. This high-tech environment extends even to the smallest room in the house, where used cardboard toilet […]
Click here for a full portionYellow pepper tarte tatin
Did you know… Yellow is the easiest colour for the human eye to see and is therefore often used in visibility clothing. In heraldry, yellow signifies honour and loyalty. For years yellow ribbons were worn as a sign of hope as women waited from their men to come marching home from war. Yellow is the colour of […]
Click here for a full portionEasy celeriac remoulade
Nick and I are currently trying our best to learn conversational Spanish. Why? Ummm, because I’ve always wanted to learn a modern European language (Latin, I’m told, doesn’t count!), and Spanish seems the most useful as it’s spoken all over South America as well as in Spain. So here we are, about halfway through our […]
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