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Archive for March, 2011

Spring Photography and a Fish Recipe

Posted on March 31st, 2011

The past weeks have been full with photography, more then ever, part because spring came and with this amazing sun and lots of things to photograph, I couldn’t resist. Part, because of my photography courses. I’m taking some photography courses with Carlos Lopez, a great photographer that I found here, in Brno, and I become more and more interested in all technical aspects of photography. How to make everything look extremely natural, how to catch that feeling of the moment. With a lot of things to study and photograph, I started to have a small portfolio of food, but surely it will grow. Have a look below at few of my shoots from this week and past weeks, plus a very simple spring and…

Wanna Be Baguette Française

Posted on March 26th, 2011

I’ve noticed that usually the French recipes are extremely long in size.  A lot of steps to do, until you’ll get the desired result. I never noticed this in the American or Romanian recipes. I’m making this bread over a half of year already. I’m in loved with my bread machine and of course, I’m usually baking at home my bread. Mostly, it’s just a simple bread or bread with seeds, but when I have the time, I make with love french baguettes. I’m not very skilled into the kneading of dough, and to be honest I don’t really like this. Is getting messy the kitchen, and you must to “work” a bit longer to have the dough knead well. Nowadays the bread machine…

The Wonders of Czech Republic : Marlenka

Posted on March 20th, 2011

The moment of truth finally came. I started to explore, try and love the Czech cuisine. For starting, just with cakes. Soon, however with other meals as well. I ate Marlenka in 2009, but I didn’t like it. It was dry layer cake. Few month later, I dare to try it again. Different pastry shop, different taste. It was amazing. I felt in love with this precious simple cake and I said to myself that I really must to make it at home. It was hard to find the recipe. It was hard to find the most accurate recipe of this wonder cake. But, finally, I managed and here we are talking about it. So this week, I tested the recipe. The preparation of…

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