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Chocolate chip, buckwheat and sea salt cookies

Posted on May 28, 2015 • 2 comments

I recently did some recipe development for Aloha using two of their products and I wanted to share them with you - cookies and a breakfast bowl. And nothing wrong with eating them together either. Aloha prides itself in products that are organically grown, free of artificial colors, flavors and sweeteners, tested beyond government regulations, ...

Posted under: breakfast, cakes, gluten free, grains, spring, tarts

Ingredients: buckwheat, chocolate, fleur de sel, granola, nectarines, strawberries, yogurt

Citrus cake for the winter blues

Posted on January 14, 2015 • 13 comments

Citrus and yogurt cake | Cannelle et Vanille

A few days ago I received the most generous gift from my friend Terisa in California. A box filled with infinite varieties of citrus, guava and persimmons, which grow right on her property. See the array on my last post. Quite remarkable. Also quite hard to visualize given the lack of sunshine in the Pacific ...

Posted under: breakfast, cakes, food photography, food styling, gluten free, winter

Ingredients: almonds, citrus, lemon, orange, rose, yogurt

pumpkin brown-butter cakes

Posted on December 11, 2014 • 1 comment

I love winter for its silence. I have this need to regenerate, so I hibernate. Partly due to exhaustion, but mostly because of darkness. I feel a lack of words lately and I mostly show the world around me through images. So I leave you with them. The images of snow and these brown-butter, spiced-pumpkin ...

Posted under: autumn, breakfast, cakes, gluten free

Ingredients: brown butter, cinnamon, dairy, ginger, nutmeg, pumpkin, squash

An apple, hazelnut and oat cake

Posted on October 14, 2014 • 15 comments

Apple, hazelnut and oat cake | Cannelle et Vanille

I don't have any tattoos although for a while I considered getting one. "What would it be?" Jenny asked. Like lightning, I felt an impulse... "a little tiny apple on my knuckle!". No actual tattoo came out of it, but I do think about that spontaneous reply often. This simply to illustrate my love for ...

Posted under: autumn, breakfast, cakes, food photography, food styling, gluten free

Ingredients: apples, hazelnuts, oats, olive oil, yogurt

Blueberry and yogurt cake from days of berry picking

Posted on July 7, 2014 •

Blueberry and yogurt cake | Cannelle et Vanille

I have vivid memories of yogurt cake in my childhood. Waiting for the cake to cool in the red loaf pan - the red loaf pan we still bake in it when we come visit my parents in the Basque Country. I brought the cake out into the balcony so it cooled faster and I ...

Posted under: basque, basque country, cakes, summer

Ingredients: blueberries, millet, olive oil, yogurt