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Archive for December, 2011

Eclais – Reflections of the Things that Passed and of the Things that Will Come

Posted on December 31st, 2011

Each year’s end made me make wish lists with the most ardent dreams. When I was looking at all that numbered dreams, I was feeling like they could become soon real. 10 or 12 objectives for the new year, some important, some just connected, were almost all the time written on a nice agenda. I’m not doing this since almost 3 years. I stopped doing it because I felt that just one of all those things was important. In the past years, I was looking for different things, but the most important was all the time, the same. I was feeling miserable when people around me disappointed me and were not believing in the same things as I. I was not understanding that some…

Childhood Christmas and Liberty’s Cozonac – part 2

Posted on December 26th, 2011

Merry Christmas to you all! In the past days I was preparing specific Romanian holidays sweets, and on the top of my list was also the Romanian cozonac. This sweet bread is part like panettone or brioche, but with an specific filling. This year I made my first and I was amazed how easy can be made. In my family is a known tradition that for the big holidays we must make cozonac. My grandma was doing all the time big cozonaci and there was no Christmas without this amazing sweet bread. She was doing it traditionally, using the hands with home-made and organic ingredients, how the french will say à l’ancienne. I didn’t dared to knead the dough manually, so I used the…

Childhood Christmas and Few Cookies Stories – part 1

Posted on December 22nd, 2011

I love to spend Christmas at home, because Christmas is all about this – reunions, love, family, refreshing memories of good times, the tree, the cookies and all the winter. I love also, and I’m trying each year, to make each Christmas as Romanian as possible. Being away from my home country for years, made me realize that I miss a lot the good meals made with local ingredients, so each year, I’m trying to reproduce an authentic Romanian Christmas, as on the times when I was a child. The tender shortbread cookies have an amazing taste when my grandma is making them, this year I tried them in my kitchen to see if I can reproduce that amazing taste. And yes, is possible,…

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