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Chewy chocolate chip oatmeal cookies

Chewy chocolate chip oatmeal cookies

Here’s an easy and yummy recipe of chewy chocolate chips cookies that can be fun to make with (or for) kids. Tried and tested by the big child I have at home 🙂 You can easily double the quantity and share with everyone at work or at school -and become the hero of the day. Makes about 15 cookies: 2/5 cup (80gr) granulated sugar 2/5 cup (80gr) brown sugar Vanilla extract ½ cup (120gr) butter 1 egg 1 ¼ cup (150gr) flour 1…

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Easy peasy yummy chocolate fondant

Easy peasy yummy chocolate fondant

So these little chocolate fondants are really the bomb! I’ve never met anyone who didn’t like them. They are easy and quick to make so you can prepare them last minute when you have people over and serve them hot from the oven and super gooey. You can also pre-bake them and quickly reheat them in the oven right before serving. They are made with ingredients you always have at home (if you don’t have these, let me just say…

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Quick and healthy frozen strawberry lemonade

Quick and healthy frozen strawberry lemonade

Quite often I feel like drinking a sweet and fresh drink during the day, however I try (*Arnaud tries) to hold me back on the carbonated drinks full of sugar. This quick and easy frozen lemonade does the trick just perfectly while also being full of vitamins. Makes 2 glasses: 4 lemons 6-7 strawberries, rinsed and hulled Two glasses of ice cubes Sugar or sweetener of your choice (honey, liquid stevia, agave nectar,…), to taste Squeeze the lemons. In a…

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Old fashioned pancakes

Old fashioned pancakes

This is the kind of classic US recipe I just can’t get enough of. I’ve been making it a billion times, because nothing beats a huge stack of pancakes on a Sunday morning (or any other day if you ask me)! I got this recipe from a really old cookbook I got when Arnaud and I were living in Flagstaff. I remember us going to a yard sale during one of our first weekends there, riding our yellow bikes, and…

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Not-so-boring lunch idea: stir fried green cabbage and poached eggs

Not-so-boring lunch idea: stir fried green cabbage and poached eggs

Do you sometimes have one of those days when your regular everyday-the-same lunch just seems too boring to be true and you really don’t feel like eating it? Well, this is any day for me. I really need to switch things up from time to time otherwise I’ll just get bored of eating the same thing. Here is one example of a fun and fresh lunch I made once when I was on a quest of something different and happened to…

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Starbucks Lemon Loaf -only better

Starbucks Lemon Loaf -only better

When we were studying in Flagstaff, Arnaud and I were huge fans of Starbucks’ Lemon Loaf, a lemon cake with a ridiculously delicious lemon icing. Our first year at NAU, we used to go to Starbucks and get a slice of this cake, but not too often since we had to pay for it ourselves and were little students on a budget. Only to find out, beginning of our third semester there, that as student athletes on a full scholarship,…

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