Baking

Quarkbällchen

February is the season for Fuesent in Luxembourg – it’s carnival season! Besides fancy dress parties and cavalcades across the country (not this year though), carnival is really the time

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Sweet Bretzel

Luxembourg has lots of quaint traditions, but above all, Bretzelsonndeg is one really lovely example. Every year, on the 4th Sunday of Lent, we celebrate ‘Bretzel Sunday’. Here, a man

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Wild Garlic Scones

By now most of you must have realized that I love to make the most of wild garlic season.Wild garlic is such an interesting plant which grows wild in the

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Rhubarb Tartelettes

I can’t think of anything more exciting than rhubarb. Maybe it’s because its season is so short and its arrival means it’s springtime. In Luxembourg rhubarb is usually worked into

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Rhubarb Custard Cake

This cake is inspired by a sunny afternoon in my friend Nadine’s garden. Nadine had just had her baby girl, and I was visiting her after spending one month in

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Vanilla Almond Damson Muffins

Damson/Quetschen season is really such a lovely time.  You will find damsons in shops around Luxembourg from early August, but the real damson season actually only starts in October, when

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