Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts

Monday, 5 April 2021

July - August 2020 #Instagram

Hello! - Is there someone still looking? 

Some thoughts after using only Instagram for half a year:

It has been a while now where I only used Instagram. Yes, my idea was right, it is much easier and faster to post photos and tell what I do, so I do it much more regularly than I ever did here on my blog. 

BUT: I don't like the short life of a Insta-post. The most are only looked at when they are fresh, so after a week already no one notice anymore what you did, except in rare cases where someone found your photo over a hashtag search. I know that there are lots of people only looking at the photos and not even reading the text. I don't like that you can't put a link to a source of inspiration. I try to explain always where I found my ideas, but if someone don't read the text he might not notice and I feel like stealing the honor. 

I will anyway continue, as Instagram is now one of the most common social media platforms and I got over likes the feeling that there is someone interested in what I'm showing, than here in the blog where there are very few comments!

To safe the photos and ideas a little longer, I will repost my pictures and texts here. Give me a while to catch up with the last month and then there might be regular updates.

Monday, 18 January 2016

Crown for "Galette de rois"

In France in beginning of January you are eating lots of "galette de rois". This is a cake for the twelfth day (dt=Dreikönigstag). Inside there is a little figure hidden and the person who finds it in his piece is the king (fr=roi) and gets a crown. When you are buying the cake there is always a paper crown with it. 
Mostly those galettes are filled with marzipan (almond paste), what I don't like so much. Last weekend I made my first galette de roi myself from a french recipe that I found here on pinterest. Even the puff pastry (dt=Blätterteig, fr=pâte feuilletée) I made myself with a recipe from the same blog. It turned out absolutely gorgeous. Or what do you think? Isn't the look perfect?
I made a fabric crown to go with and put a little plastic heard inside the filling for the king. 
The filling isn't almond paste but chocolate-hazelnut-paste. The taste was fine, but I didn't liked the structure it had in the mouth that much - maybe it had been the chocolate I used. Everybody else loved it, so I can tell the cake and crown had been a great success.

A bientôt,
Jane