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Macaron Day

Nadège patisserie is one of my favorite cafés/pastry shop in Toronto - they serve delicious, genuine Parisian food that brings me nostalgia and makes me miss the little treasures of Europe.

Every year, Nadège hosts Macaron Day and partners with an organization called Meal Exchange - a charity that engages youth to alleviate hunger locally. You can also find the photos on Hearth magazine, a lovely lifestyle magazine that features a variety of work. They just released their first volume which you can purchase on their website. 



a spoonful of sugar

"A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down"

Anyone who knows me knows I am an avid Mary Poppins fan, thus quoting her words, but I thought it would suit the post quite nicely. As I mentioned before, my aunt and cousin are visiting from Switzerland, and she is a wonderful cook and a dessert expert. 

So we ended up baking a lemon raspberry tart alongside a chocolate mousse.


I brought the goods outside to have a change of aeshetic, color, texture, etc. It started to snow, but just enough to show up ever so slightly in the shots. 


Making chocolate mousse is surprisingly simple - we melted 300 grams of chocolate, and in order to have a good balance of chocolate and mousse, you take 12 egg whites and whisk them until very fluffy. Then, mix the chocolate and mousse together gently and keep in the fridge until you decide you want to devour it. 



Stoney's

Yesterday, we went on a small adventure with my aunt and cousin visiting from Switzerland to show them around and spend some needed quality time with them after not seeing them for five years. 
We went to visit the lake and later took them to a charming bread company called Stoney's. 


I must say that the butternut squash and pear soup was a wonder. Although that's quite bias because anything soup and butternut squash has my approval, but it also had my aunt's approval who is a food guru. 

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