About

Hello there, and thank you for joining me at my dinner table… or my first blog…  I love cooking for friends (and family, but I rarely do…), creating menus, thinking up table decorations, I love getting excited about it, even the stress of it all – although admittedly I do create that stress myself, artificially so to speak, because I think I work best under stress.  However, I don’t do all that as often as I’d like, so mostly it’s just dinner for (n)one in this household.

I’m a food blog junkie – avidly following many of them, and always trying to discover something new -, recipe collector, and hobby cook/baker.  I’m also my own personal event manager, I just love planning and organising little dinners and parties at my place.  Luckily I’m surrounded by very appreciative people who seem to enjoy eating whatever I create in my kitchen – even though most of the time my motto is “no risk, no fun”.

I also love beautiful household and lifestyle items, from paper napkins to dishes to oven gloves… and other (un)necessary things.

Realising I was talking to myself whenever I had an idea or an opinion, the choices were to either keep on doing that and probably go mad, or write things down, share them, and maybe hopefully get someone else’s opinion on them.  As you can see, I chose the latter, and so far it feels good.

If you’ve found this blog, I hope you’ll be interested enough to come back – I’ll be writing about everything that usually comes to mind when I’m in my kitchen trying to either reorganise it or thinking about the next dinner for more than one.

Update:
I’m always happy to hear about someone trying out my recipes. When I try other people’s recipes and blog about it, I either do that referring to the respective blog for the recipe and do not publish it myself, or I ask permission from them.  In both cases, I link to their post.  Which is why I’d appreciate it if people asked before posting my recipes 1:1, especially as I have a copyright notice clearly visible on my homepage.  I am a firm believer in netiquette, so thank you for your understanding!

If in doubt where adaptation ends and plagiarism starts, read this interesting article by David Lebovitz on recipe attribution.