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Steak Tartare… I am very sorry!

Not a Steak Tartare recipe! We’re not doing that… Alright, every now and then something happens. Not just something like… putting your coat on in the morning, I refer rather to something like going out, buying a tartar steak, getting home, opening the box with the steak and thinking that what you ordered was not [...]

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What is this? Spaghetti?

That’s what my dearest asked me tonight, when she started to eat the pasta I had prepared. I always feel like cheating when preparing pasta. That’s also the reason why if I decide to prepare pasta, it has to be a pretty… well, not heavy, but a similar word, dish, altogether. I came home before [...]

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End of holidays, Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies and Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Have you ever realized that as a rule of thumb, you are not really announcing anyone when your holiday starts (if you have a holiday, that is) but then you announce everyone when your holiday ends? If not, then it’s definitely my case. Right… what did we do… Brownies! Well, I was trying to find [...]

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No Romanian and Portuguese translations

Upon long minutes of pondering (following hours and hours of deep thought with bits of food in between) it has been decided. There will be no more translations of English posts in Romanian and Portuguese. This site/ blog started as a humble project which initially was not designed to be that humble, dealing with 2 [...]

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Inauguration – life changing stories

I admit, it seems a bit out of context, but it is indeed an inauguration. This is the first ‘general’ post. It’s not food related or anything, it is as general as possible. Initially we thought this category would hold posts of different sorts, like “how happy was I when I dropped the cake on [...]

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