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Advent Tea Party

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To extend the previous post and its culinary concerns, I suggest, dear readers, a gift, a simple and tasty recipe for biscuits to make yourself and enjoy a snack around design.

To make fifty shortbread, mix in a bowl 200g sugar, 250g butter (I did not say it was good for the line), 3 egg yolks and 3 packets of vanilla sugar. Add 275 g of flour into a ball and let stand 1 hour in refrigerator. After this time, roll out the dough on a floured surface and cut with cookie cutter shapes of your choice (for lack of punch, a drink made ​​very well). Arrange on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and lightly buttered, brown with a mixture of egg yolk and milk. Bake 12 minutes (and no more - cooking determines the success of your shortbread, and if you do not have a combi fitted with cooking programs worthy of the name to the image of the luxury model from Bosch , I advise you to remain absolutely meet your oven to monitor the status of your works. Repeat until all the batter and let cool.

From experience, I hereby confirm that ideally accompany your snacks shortbread winter, served on a beautiful cup -shaped pig, squirrel or sheep, like displays of home Sagaform .


If you feel the fiber hippie chic, certainly you do in your ceramic teapot and walnut in Tonfisk. This pretty box Finnish design very natural, consisting of a cylindrical teapot with lid, cork and two cups undoubtedly please young couples and all supporters of a decoration and style while simplicity.

Loft owners and lovers of modernist trends over him probably prefer the sculptural teapot Sorapot , which associates with great success, not least the originality of Pyrex and steel. This little gem was conceived and designed to promote optimal brewing your tea leaves, which, within the central structure, will sail and float to reveal their full aroma.

You all know the virtues of thermal and sound insulation of double glazed window ... The principle is similar with these double-walled mug that will allow you to savor your drink without you burn your fingers try to deceive by entering your cup from the top and see it shatter on the ground have a proper grip.

This is Bodum we have this great idea, which comes in several sizes and models to provide all hot drinks suitable container.

I only wish you a successful taste ... With a thought for the ultimate coffee drinkers and the nostalgic hot chocolate: Bodum, again, came up with a chocolate perfect for making chocolates and sparkling wish ideally brewed . As for coffee, let us reflect a moment on the environment and are reconnecting with old models, wireless, without program, without capsule, preferring the extra accessories depth of flavor as revealed anywhere else ... I have a soft spot for the most elementary coffee presses, Bodum, again, remains a safe bet ...

I Want the Sun (1): get up and walk

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Climate and time change fall, that's not necessarily the desire to give cheerfully to leave his nest cozy bed to survey chilly corridors, kitchens and bathrooms frozen chilling .... If some (s) of you have ideas to bring good humor and warmth in our cubicles, they make themselves known!

I obviously did not wait for my advanced age and the adventure of this blog to try to make up my most pleasant rest ... that my efforts have not always been successful, I mean I do not necessarily jump my bed singing a song in praise of "waking up beauty" ...

However, I am working to make this morning when the delicate prelude to a successful day, which here, mood and decorating ideas to support the various crucial stages

déco du matin, tout va bien

Deco in the morning, so good

First step: breakfast, not always easy when everything is dark and cold ... so try to get warm as quickly as possible, and to do that, nothing like a good tea.

Ah, the tea ceremony by itself, fans will not contradict me ... and for a successful tea, of course, an ideal warm water (between 70 and 95 ° C for different types of tea) is mandatory

I discovered with amazement the cordless kettle from Morphy Richards Americans. In this case, nothing revolutionary in the mechanism, but what refinement in appearance ... I do not dwell on its sleek, minimalist design and functionality of its handle and its wide wireless system, no; This changes everything with this kettle is its transparency illuminated ... let me explain: it is not only transparent colored glass that allows for once, to accurately measure the water level of the device, but especially she has a sublime and clever lighting system that switches on when the water boils, and the envelope part of a bluish halo to the hypnotic power incomparable.

Nothing better to imagine lagoons and warm even in the most polar kitchens

For the drink itself, I'm quite a purist, smoked tea kind remaining my optimum ... Fortunately, the growing enthusiasm for this type of beverage has greatly raise the level and quality of these leaves to brew. For anyone wanting to discover the incredible richness of tea, like wine, has an infinite number of wines and flavors, Tea Forté offers a pretty good introduction. The packaging is attractive and original, with varied selections - "natures" or flavored, though I owned the category of purists who consider a flavored tea is no longer a tea - presented in beautiful pyramids, and boxes really successful ... so many good gift ideas in anticipation of an approaching Christmas

There is also a great invention in the field of receptacles of our hot or cold liquids. I like the design nicely retro mugs and bowls Menu , their geometric decoration and tart is a tribute to the Danish designer Verner Panton. Little more, making thermos avoiding burns while keeping our beverages warm.

If you're more likely on coffee, know that my friends (see the first section of this blog) from Bosch , always at the forefront, have developed a coffee worthy of the most glittering of zincs, which provides a snap the quintessential coffee frankly ground ... I know we are here a thousand miles of beautiful aluminum pods that bloom in coffee section of our supermarkets and machinery suitable perforating with love, but without taking into account environmental issues raised by these capsules, Is there really a comparison possible - no offense to fans of George - between a quasi-professional coffee machine and a pseudo-overused gadget?

Remains a major concern for the least of us in the morning: that of the pale light that often lack not to blind our little tired eyes. It is always difficult to find a balance between soft lighting tricky but not very powerful and dazzling power of a neon ... A valiant heart, nothing is impossible, Laurent Baule created a suspension whose shape reminds me a little of that a butane camping, and acts as a filter for saving to the gaiety of our disco lights and a pleasing effect in our kitchens.

Farewell bleak revivals, a successful day can only begin!

Appointment very soon on this blog following my adventures Deco morning ... next episode: the art of living in my bathroom.