La voyageuse

One of my greatest dreams would be to travel. I would love to go to places where you can feel something, a kind of soul in a city. I have a little preference to cities where there are Renaissance buildings. They are my favorites. I would take a bicycle and see the Châteaux de la Loire, the Bretagne, Bruges, Amsterdam, Venice, Florence... For me, the perfect travel means: see the architecture, walk through the city, learn about the history, take the time to relax, but also meet the people. I don't really enjoy hôtels, I prefer to sleep in bed and breakfasts places, where you can talk to local people. I love it. In a complete different culture, I would love to go to Japan, China, Sweden, Russia and Brazil. 

Blancs de poulet farcis

Each time I post a new recipe, I think it's been such a long time I haven't done so! I've decided, now that I have more time to cook, to improve the presentation on the plate, what do you thing of this? :) Some of you may wonder where I get these recipes from. First, I want to tell you that I NEVER copy anyone on the Internet, or simply replicate a recipe found in a book. Of course there are always possibilities that what I show you could look like something you already know from somewhere else, I'm not very innovative. I get my inspiration from my mother and grandmother, or the things I see on TV, but they are never a "copy and paste". I like to get inspired by the techniques, the associations of flavors, but I want to keep my cooking personal. I love cooking and eating, and I love to share it!

Kunsthalle

 I wanted to tell you about myself and one of my passions: languages. I have the chance to be born and to live in a very interesting country, Alsace, right next to Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg and France. The dialect here is Germanic, but everyone speaks French. Alsacian tends to be less used, especially in cities, and the new generations don't even understand it, which is really sad. Having grown in a big town, I had no contacts with my regional dialect until the day I moved close to my grandparents. Elderly do speak Alsacian and use it every day rather than French. This was the biggest chance I ever had, and I asked them to teach me this language, because I thought this was a shame to study English, German and Russian at university without learning the language spoken in my own country! I can speak a little Alsacian now, but still not much. One of the difficulties is that the dialect changes from one village to another! Anyway I really enjoy it! :)