Dearest reader, Among my many embarrasing endeavors is pretending I can write poetry – very bad and ridiculous poetry but poems none the less. This is a habbit I have always possed and since I have a pathological need to perform I am going to share some of my worst poems here with you. Think of it as a Christmas gift! Furthermore, a word of warning is in order before proceeding into the part of my brain that shouldn't see the light of day: I have a tendency to be melodramatic

Dearest reader, In 2017 there was hardly anything so horrific in a teenager's life than having you mother point out that the bump on your nose had become more distinct. We were, for goodness sake, living the height of the Instagram-face era: a questionable aesthetic trend, defined by the Kardashian family, that favoured high cheekbones, big lips and conveniently small, neat noses (Tolentino, Jia, 2019) – non of which I possed, least of all a pretty, little nose, but wanted o

Dearest reader, People have been talking about marriage for centuries and I have been thinking about it for years, the past four of them I have spent trying to write about it, and since August, I finally realized I should get it out of my system regardless whether it is important or not. Namenly, at 25, I have at last reached a point where people around me are getting married. My friends in particular have started to look for people to get engaged with, to make potential fia

Dearest reader, After eight (more or less successful) French recipes, I had managed to muster some fool's condifence in finally trying...

Dearest reader, Ever since I learned to make a French omelette I have been itching to try Julia Child's other egg recipies in the hopes...

Dearest reader, After baking my first French cake I was on a sugar high so lofty that I immediately had to try a second recipe out of the...

Dearest reader, One of the greatest pleasures in life is baking an excellent cake when there is no real reason for it. It is called: the...

Dearest reader, The most delicious season is here, also known as, rhubarb pie season! And even though, our cooking angel Julia Child has...

Dearest reader, If you have been reading my blog lately, you know that I have been learning French cooking with Julia Child's cookbook,...

Dearest reader, The land of France is full of famous dishes and their omelettes are certainly one of those with a reputation of a quick...

Dearest reader, It was one of those cloudy spring afternoons in May when I decided to made a potato and leek soup according to Julia...

Dearest reader, As some of you may know, I started blogging in 2016 and for the first nine years of that journey this corner of the...