The holiday season is the perfect time to celebrate traditions, explore new cuisines, and gather around delicious food. If you love cooking (and eating!) as much as I do, you’re in for a treat. A few months ago, I attended one of Cookery Skola’s hands-on classes and learned to make […]
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Having an Advent Calendar is one of our family’s beloved traditions. It helps us get into the holiday mood and celebrate the joy of the season one small surprise at a time. Whether it’s a treat to satisfy your sweet tooth, a beauty product to indulge in a bit of […]
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I’ve always been in search of a good and easy recipe for sugar cookies, one that allows me to play with the ingredients and maybe add my own touches. And especially now, with Christmas just around the corner (I know, we’re still just waiting for Halloween to come first, but […]
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The Gingerbread House at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco is an iconic holiday tradition, dating back to 1995. The construction is a life-sized gingerbread house that measures around 25 feet high and 35 feet wide and can be visited for free every year around the winter holidays. Here are […]
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With the last pumpkin put down from the porch and the last witch sent to sleep in the decorations box until next year, the festive season is about to start. And in San Francisco, it begins somewhere around November 1st. Even though we don’t have snowy winters, we have cheerful […]
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If you love Christmas as much as I do, New York might be the best place to spend the most wonderful time of the year and to get into your festive spirit! However, Christmas in New York is magical, and there are so many things to do, so it may […]
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This year was the third time when I decided to bake the Cinnamon Stars Biscuits for Christmas, so you can imagine this has become one of our favorite recipes! First published by the royal pastry chefs in 2019, the Cinnamon Stars Recipe is not very complicated to make and brings […]
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Decorating with dried orange slices (or any other citrus) is one of my favorite festive Christmas activities. If you wonder how to dry orange slices, it’s so easy, and it also makes your kitchen smell heavenly! Dried orange slices can be used for Christmas decorations, many handmade projects, ornaments, garlands, […]
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With Christmas around the corner, this is the peak season for decorating your home! Every year I love gathering ideas for decorating my Christmas tree. And even though there are ornaments very dear to my heart that I always use, I try a new decorating theme every Christmas. So if […]
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Christmas Markets are one of my favorite places to try new festive foods and discover the culinary style of a new country; they are the perfect place to find traditional specialties, tasty dishes, and comforting foods. A mug of Gluhwein and a gingerbread cookie are not just a way to […]
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Christmas is very loved in Berlin, and so are the Christmas Markets. Most of them open at the end of November and go up to Christmas, in a wide variety of locations (city squares, old castles, woods, on rooftops), each offering something unique. There are more than 60 markets through […]
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It’s the middle of November, and still no snow. But here, in Germany, you can feel that Christmas is approaching. In the country of Christmas Markets, the winter season attracts every year a lot of visitors who want to see and discover the traditional Christmas Markets, wander around wooden decorated […]
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