May 21st, 2012 §
Since I’m not surrounded with Michelin awarded restaurants or my Italian favourite restaurant Oenosteria in Paris and I’m tired of the store-bought pesto jars (that are more or less containing potatoes, cashew nuts and other substitutes…. ) I decided that it was time for a change. With other words, I would do my very own homemade pesto. What a delight! It turned out to be the most delicious pesto I’ve ever tasted! My pesto was four times more expensive than a store-bought, but it was worth every cent, I will never buy store-bought pesto ever again!
For a jar filled with pesto I used the following ingredients: 1 pot eco basil, 1 pot eco persil, 130 g grated parmesan cheese, 2 cloves of minced garlic, 70 g pine nuts, 2 dl extra virgin olive oil and a pinch of love! Mix altogether in a food processor et voilà! Pesto love it is!
Pasta loves pesto! But so do vegetables, bruschettas…even fish and chicken…only your imagination puts the limit ;-)
FR: Moi, je préfère le pesto fait maison que celui qu’on achète dans le commerce…voici, ma recette pour faire un bon pesto! Il vous faut: 1 bouquet de basilic, 1 bouquet de persil, 130 g de parmesan râpé, 2 gousses d’ail hachées, 70 g de pignons de pin, 2 dl d’huile d’olive extra vierge et d’une pincée d’amour et c’est fait! Mélanger le tout dans un bol d’un mixeur et voilà, le pesto fait maison!
May 18th, 2012 §
Thought I might share the beautiful sunrise I get to see each morning when I’m about to take one of the early trains to Denmark. This is how it looks at the trainstation…very early in the morning…in south of Sweden.
May 17th, 2012 §
Thought I recognized this hunk when I was sitting in the subway in Stockholm two weeks ago. Could it be mr Law? Jude Law? Oh yes, it sure was. Mr Law was keeping me company during my short trip with the metro and it sure was a pleasure.
May 12th, 2012 §
Lauritz is a web auction house but they have a showroom in the department-store MOOD in Stockholm. There you can see some of their different objects…for example these industrial chairs I saw last weekend when I was there.
That’s another thing I haven’t shared with you on my blog…my addiction to auctions…Lauritz is one of my favourites, they have a ntework with auction houses in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Belgium.
Lauritz – Auctions of art, design, antiques and home luxury
May 9th, 2012 §
Let me introduce you to Posh Living, an interior design boutique situated in the new department-store called MOOD in Stockholm. When I was there last weekend I totally fell in love with these cute cups with butterflies on, aren’t they adorable? Simple things with beautiful details ;-)
I liked Posh Livings assortment and different brands…even though everything was new produced (which I’m allergic too…I prefer OLD and USED…with history and plenty of charm!). They had my favourite chairs (that can be found in Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris)..simply called Luxembourg chair from the brand Fermob, chairs from Tolix, lamps from Jieldé….and books from Taschen :-)
May 9th, 2012 §
Ladurée in Stockholm was supposed to open in the middle of April but it seems they are running late on their time-schedule. When I was passing by the boutique (situated at Grev Turegatan) on May 5th it looked like this (see the photo above).
I can only say one thing, work harder, work faster!
Oh, by the way…did you know that there will be one Ladurée in Copenhagen (lucky me!!!), one in Oslo, Malmoe and a second one in Stockholm? Ladurée is expanding ;-)
FR: Ladurée, bientôt à Stockholm, en Suède.
May 7th, 2012 §
Café Egoïste is a café situated in the new shopping-mall in central Stockholm called MOOD. A friend of mine invited me for a traditional Swedish “fika” there when I was in Stockholm for the weekend. We shared a giant cardamom bun (they are famous for their giant cardamom buns and cinnamon buns!) and I had a cup of hot chocolate (served in my favourite cup) and some whipped cream aside. Was delicious as always!
Café Egoïste is owned by Erik Videgård and Café Saturnus (where all their pastries and breads are baked and they recieve them freshly baked from Café Saturnus twice a day). Café Saturnus was a café I visited frequently when I was living in Stockholm…I was truly addicted to their cardamom buns! And so was princess Madeleine of Sweden, that I saw there several times before she moved to New York. Here and here are some of my old blogposts about Café Saturnus ;-)
While Café Saturnus is more designed as a French boulangerie & patisserie Café Egoïste is more New York with its industrial details in the interior…still with French cakes and food. I recommend them both :-)
May 4th, 2012 §
On my way to the capital of Sweden, Stockholm..where I will be spending my weekend…It will be pretty intensive since I have to leave already on Sunday. But I’m happy it’s a holiday today in Copenhagen (where I’m working) so that I can start my weekend earlier ;-)
Wish you a great weekend!
May 2nd, 2012 §
Artichoke is one of my favourite vegetables. It has a spectacular taste and superb nutrition, who cannot love that vegetable?
The ones I prepeared yesterday and that you can see in the photos are straight from France (still not the season in Sweden…) and I boiled them for about 1 hour with one lemon (straight from Italy!) and with some salt, sugar and love from Sweden ;-).
The joy of eating an artichoke: First I remove the fuzzy choke guarding the heart in the middle and I put one to two tablespoons of salty butter on the heart so it can melt. Then I pull of one of the outermost petals and dip it in the melted butter…I pull the petal through my slightly clenched teeth to remove the soft flesh at the bottom of the petal..and I go on like that until all the petals has been removed and that is when I have arrived to one of the culinary rewards, the heart! Now the heart is soaked with the melted butter and it is heavenly delicious!
April 29th, 2012 §
Me and King Louis XIV of France have one thing in common, we share the same love for asparagus. In fact he loved that vegetable so much that he had special greenhouses built so that he could enjoy asparagus year round! Unfortunately I cannot do the same….
But with Spring comes asparagus and I love that! I use to boil them for a couple of minutes…then I fry them in a frying pan for a couple for 1-2 minutes with some salty butter…then I serve them with some parmesan cheese on top…delicious appetizer!
Did you know that asparagus is a good source of vitamin B6, calcium, magnesium and zinc, dietary fiber, protein, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin K, thiamin, riboflavin, rutin, niacin, folic acid, iron, phosphorus, potassium, copper, manganese and selenium as well as chromium?
FR: Moi et le roi Louis XIV de France partageons la même amour pour les asperges. En fait, il avait des serres spéciales construites pour les profites pendant toute de l’année. Malheureusement je ne peux pas faire la même chose…
April 28th, 2012 §
The Perfect Egg for me is boiled for about 5 minutes (for a medium sized egg)…that is when the yolk is still soft and creamy and the white is just set but still quite wobbly. With some sprinkled salt on the top its total perfection!
When I buy eggs I always make sure the eggs comes from organic certified farms where the chickens can roam freely and have access to a natural environment. Organic hens and chickens are fed organic feed and it is prohibited to feed animal byproducts or GMO and no antibiotics is allowed except in emergencies. I believe that eggs coming from hens and chickens that has been grown up with animal welfare standards improves the quality of both the eggs and the meat, low stress levels lead to superior quality of animal products…with other words…happy chicken and hens = good quality eggs = good quality nutrition!
So it’s not enough when farmers label their eggs “free-range” because that only means the chicken are not in a cage, but usually still confined in barns at high population densitites…
April 24th, 2012 §
Look at her, isn’t she just adorable? My mom has two cats and this is one of them. She is so cute and charming! Always waiting for me outside the door when I’m coming home from my work in Denmark…just so that we can go inside together…..
April 9th, 2012 §
The Easter break has given me pretty lot of time to look over my blog…but the great weather kept me away from it…at least for the changes I had in mind…BUT I did change the “Who is Solli?” page that you can find in the menu to the left. Because I’m NOT 29 years anymore and I do not live in Paris for the moment…even though I do it spiritually ;-)
April 6th, 2012 §
Easter egg porcelain
Wish you all a happy Easter!
Easter Egg chocolate
March 26th, 2012 §
Improving my sun tan...
It was such a beautiful weather yesterday! The sun was shining and you could feel the Spring was in the air. I took advantage of it all and changed into my bikini and jumped on the sunbed in my garden. While improving my sun tan I was listening to the CD that came along the Vortex book I’m reading…I’m totally into the Vortex you can’t imagine ;-)
