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Archive for December, 2010

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Posted on December 28th, 2010

Inspirited by the wonderful movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s and by the spirit of blue Christmas, I prepared a sweet breakfast with Cortado coffee in champagne flute and with chocolate éclairs (using Pierre Hermé recipe) and chocolate cake with forest fruits and mascarpone blue cream. What a joy! The recipe for my gourmet blue-chocolate cake you can read it in my previous post about the Christmas dinner that we had. This layer cake is velvety from the chocolate mousse and sourish from the forest fruits. Is the perfect marriage with a cup of coffee in the morning or with a glass of champagne in Christmas Eve or NYE. The chocolate éclairs of Pierre Hermé were a true challenge for me. Mainly, because I was running…

Christmas Dinner in Brno

Posted on December 26th, 2010

Merry Christmas! Ho-ho-ho! Our last-night Christmas dinner was amazing! Nice moments with friends and of course good food. I must tell that again (like last year) the preparations for this Christmas were tiresome. Even if I was choosing the recipes well in advance, the actual preparation of the food took very long time. So, let’s see the menu : This year my Christmas dinner had the Winter Wonderland blue theme, so I had a lot of blue garlands and a blue cake. I even made a very nice eye-catchy invitation : Around 4 p.m. the friends that I invited started to come to our house in Brno. At that moment we were not yet finished with the preparations. So, my boyfriend was baking bread,…