Pears are definitely amongst my favorite fruits of the season, and I have been eating a bunch of them lately. I wanted to incorporate them into a soft and moist cake that would have a strong winter feel, so here it is! This cake features a pecan (or walnut) and Biscoff cookie crust, and a moist almond and pear filling and is the perfect winter treat. Arnaud loved it, even though he usually doesn’t like pears very much. This recipe…
Monday was a good day ! My first task when we got back to Cincinnati after three amazing weeks in our dear Belgium was to go to the grocery store to somewhat refill our fridge and food cupboards that were desperately empty. When I arrived at the store, I couldn’t help but notice that there was a huge discount on the Biscoff spread jars (Biscoff, or speculoos as we call it back home, is a traditional and delicious Belgian cookie…
I used to say that Christmas time is the best time of year but, let’s face it, we all know that the best time of year is when you have an opportunity to eat cheesecake. A few weeks back was my Mom’s birthday, so my sister and I decided we’d throw her a (not-so-)surprise birthday party (she hates surprises so we kind of told her something was going on). What was meant to be a small family get-together quickly turned…
Here we go, time to get ready for pumpkin patches, pumpkin-pie-spices anything and Thanksgiving season! I just love this celebration of the fall every year here in the US! When we came back to Belgium after two years in Flagstaff, Arnaud and I brought a little of this tradition back with us. We hosted Thanksgiving dinners a couple years, reuniting both our families, and introduced them to the traditional American Thanksgiving meal among which the deliciousness of pumpkin pie. And I…