If you have been around here long enough you know that I love baking, and I love baking with fruit: it makes me happy to transform less than perfect apples,[...]

My dear readers, how have you all been? I know that those of you in the U.S. are going through a rough time now with the approaching elections and the[...]

Last weekend, feeling better after a cold, I was in the mood for some baking: the days were cold, so turning the oven on was a very nice thing to do. I had a[...]

It has been so insanely hot here in São Paulo lately, in the middle of the winter, to the point of affecting my mood: I know that not everyone is into cold[...]

To me it is fun to go through my old photos for the Instagram #tbt: I don’t have many of them, but the ones I have always put a smile on my face. Weeks[...]

My dear and lovely readers, I hope you are all well and having a very nice year so far. It has been a very, very long time since I last posted something on[...]

Living in pandemic times is tiresome, and one of the things I miss the most is traveling: from time to time I browse the photos I took in past trips. First I[...]

It is super cold in Sao Paulo today – it is the winter after all – and I have been trying to keep myself warm with lots of clothes and buckets of[...]

Here I am once again with cake. :) Days have been pretty busy around here, lots of work, back at the office twice a week, but all in all everything is fine. I[...]

When I first started cooking from foreign books, magazines and food blogs, I was amazed to find out so many new ingredients – and until some point in[...]

I told you the other day that once I started making my own granola I never went back to store bought – not only I can control the amount of sugar and fat[...]

Sometimes I think about how many times we change our minds throughout different phases of life, ages, etc. I always say that I don’t get a tattoo because[...]

One of the things I liked the most when I started cooking recipes from different new sources – books, magazines, foodblogs – was learning how to[...]

On a blueberry state of mind after themuffins I posted last week , I bring you a delicious and simple to make clafoutis with these wonderful berries: if you[...]

From a very early age my mother taught me how wonderful fruits are: apples, oranges, watermelon, strawberries, pears… We were a modest family, but there[...]