One of the most satisfying moments in a kitchen has to be the successful attempt to (re)create a dish from scratch, without a recipe & no ingredients given, merely the recollection of what it tasted like when you enjoyed it. A dish for instance that you had at a restaurant or a store-bought something rather.

When I was a kid, my mum often asked me in the morning what I wanted to have for lunch after school and chances were high that my first or second choice would have always been thin pancakes filled with jam and cinnamon sugar - it was nonnegotiable, from my point of view.

One small detail in his book struck me the most - he had used an ingenious method to poach an egg. In case your Easter plans warrants a poached egg, why not try this for yourself?

A really good tomato soup will always have a front row seat in my virtual "I hope nobody is watching me licking the soup bowl clean" - list. Quite likely, a well done tomato soup will even outrun the most comforting potato soup as well as a bowl ...

Spotting Mav's cookie recipe (herself inspired by Camilla), the sloppy piles on my desktop all of sudden became less important... Christmas cookie baking was overdue! Totally overdue. My annual routine...