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‘This Easter, try dying your eggs with vegetables and spices.’
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‘Cheryl Wheeler and the Spudding Taternacle Choir sing an homage to the venerable vegetable.’
What do potatoes mean to you?
Do you have a spud story?
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We’re often experimenting with flavours, finding the best combinations. This week, much focus on Quiche creativity. You may have read about the previous taste-test. Did it open your virtual taste buds?
For lunch love today, more quiche taste-tests in The Quest for The Perfect Quiche. Aaahh it’s a demanding job, but somebody has to do it!
Two quiches were tested and totally tasted. Both organic. One was tomato, onion, and ham. The other, mushroom and chicory.
Verdict: Fresh. Flavourful. Filling. Fabulous.
Great additions to our menu item, ‘Quiche van de week’.
Do you have a great quiche recipe?
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One building from Cyres Cafe Antwerp, there is a beautiful bakery. ‘Bakery’, that’s my (English) word for it. It is signed, ‘Patisserie’ (cakes, breads, bigger things, etc) ‘Confiserie’ (chocolates, candy, little things, etc).
Also on its sign, is written, ‘1912′… it’s been in the hands of a family of bakers, through generations … and it closes on Sunday!
Have heard on the grapevine that it will be replaced by a clothes retailer, a restaurant, an estate agent - ?
The building of bakery beauty will be missed. Not only because of the eye-popping yumminess of the window. I am always inspired to pause and ponder the delights on display. Not only because they make the most remarkable rice cakes (I’m not talking about the ‘rice cakes’ that people eat when on a diet, for example … do you know the white ones I mean?). Because, in the mornings, when we open the back door that leads from The Cyres Kitchen to The Garden, we receive a delightfully delicious waft of bakery~ness and that flavoursome smell wafts in wonderful waves into The Cafe, as well as my nostrils. As the flavour floats fragrantly in the air, filling the space, it whets my appetite for more. Mmm appreciation. I stand in The Gratitude Garden, basking in the baking a~bun~dance, drinking Life in deeply, as well as a compelling cup of Cyres Coffee. Heaven on earth!
What is your sense of smell appreciating today?
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Today, in Your Cafe of Dreams, your magic wand is a spatula!
Pancake Day. A uniting experience.
Ingredients
(makes 12 perfectly scrummy pancakes)
2 eggs
110g/4oz plain flour
pinch of salt
50g/2oz butter
200ml/7fl oz milk mixed with 75ml/3fl oz water
Cyres Method
Have Fun!
Sift the flour (please note, plain!) plus salt into a mixing bowl. Hold the sieve high above the bowl so the flour gets an airing (flour likes to feel light too!).
Make a well in the centre of the flour. Make it a wishing well. Rather, an Expecting Well. Break the eggs into it. As you do so, state two things you’re expecting, one for each egg.
Whisk the Expecting eggs with the Light~hearted flour.
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Remember the tea kettle ~ it is always up to its neck in hot water, yet it still sings!
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To consider with your Cyres Coffee 
Create Your Own Cafe of Dreams in your home
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Will you be making pancakes with us on February 5th?
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‘Louise Roe visits Ladurée’s head chef at Harrods and learns about macaroons, the traditional French treat that Ladurée has made so famous’
Who wants to enjoy mouthwatering chat about macaroons, while I put the kettle on?
