Just a few weeks ago
the trees looked on fire,
with their beautiful bright red leafs.
Now, the last leaf
on the tree in the front garden
is bravely hanging on for dear life.
I wish it could last a little longer
But tonight there will be a storm,
so I don’t think she is going to make it.
The trees will be bare [...]

Saturday is often baking day at the Dorré household. First a bit of BBC Saturday Kitchen with cappuccino and cookies. Then some shopping and baking: the fun part. This Saturday I particularly wanted to try some of the Tessa Kiros recipes from her book ‘Apples for Jam’ which I got for my birthday. The book, [...]

We recently bought a beautiful Tajine in a little Moroccan store here in Holland. It was a feast to try it for the first time. Soon the kitchen was filled with wonderful smells.
Every kitchen, be it Indian, Chinese or Italian, has it’s own ‘holy trinity’ of basic ingredients. With Moroccan food you’ll find the combination [...]

This recipe is too easy! But the result is fabulously ‘cheesy’. Just take equal parts of flour, butter (in little cubes) and good quality cheddar cheese. With 100 grams of each you will get about 40 little cookies. Add one egg yolk and mix everything into a ball. If it feels too sticky just add [...]

These chocolate truffles are so irresistible that some people (you know who you are!) decide to give them to their mother for her birthday but ‘totally by accident’ eat the whole heavenly lot themselves in the car on their way over there.
What’s so good about these truffles is that they taste and look like [...]