Comments on: Tales of Travels & Tastes

By: Polprav

Polprav — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:53:23 +0000

Hello from Russia!
Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?

By: Kerrin

Kerrin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:22:41 +0000

Nicole, thanks! That monkey marzipan is the cutest, right? Just loved it! Oooh, yes Linzer Tarts are fantastic. I just bought a Linzer Tart cutter in fact. Never made my own though – not yet at least!

Carolina, thank you so very much. Hope you’ll continue to read and enjoy – and find inspiration and more useful tips too.

Julia, ok, so you don’t reeeaaally have to pick a favorite! I don’t think I’d ever be able to pick a favorite on your blog – way too many fabulous choices! Yes indeed, lots and lots of travel on my end right now – so very much to share here on the blog. It will all come, in due time! So, you reading through those Tasmania brochures now? Planning the next trip (after Zurich of course!)…

As for the very top right photo, it is a Springerle rolling pin I saw in this fabulous antique shop in Colmar. (I actually bought an old mini copper kugelhopf mold there!) You roll out your Springerle cookie dough and it leaves the shapes on your cookies. It’s traditionally an anise-flavored dough, common in Germany and Switzerland, more often made with wooden stamps in fact. Check out this link: http://www.fantes.com/springerle.html

By: Julia @ Mélanger

Julia @ Mélanger — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:01:46 +0000

I don’t know if I could pick a favourite. The selections you have highlighted are all equally delicious. I love simple jam tarts and adore marshmallow ? and the Carambar tart you also included sounds so intriguing ? I wish I could make it now! I couldn?t pick a favourite on my own blog either. Way too hard. So I think it?s fair to say that you have a splendid selection of sweet treats for every palate and taste. What a busy traveller you have been lately. I can?t wait to read more about your recent travels to Denmark, Finland and Portugal as well as your upcoming travels to France, England and Germany. I have no further travel plans right now, but I did joke with Mr Mélanger about dropping into a local travel agent before leaving Tasmania to pick up some new brochures! BTW, in the first set of photos, what?s the item on the top right?

By: Carolina

Carolina — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:56:41 +0000

I absolutely loooooooove you blog, Thanks for giving me so much inspiration and tips:))

Hugs

By: Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:20:58 +0000

Hi Kerrin,
Your photos are just spectacular!
I adored those little marzipan chimps on their banana benches.
And, thanks for reminding me how much I love jam tarts and its cousin:Linzer Tart.
Happy trails,
Nicole

By: Kerrin

Kerrin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:17:51 +0000

Beth, good call on the Magnolia Bakery cupcakes! Absolutely, us fans can spot those anywhere, right?! You love pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, mmm! Do you use a certain recipe online that you can share with us? That sounds like something I must try! Thanks!

Lizounette, thanks for the new year´s wishes! Glad you love that jam tart, me too! Let me know if you try it for sure…

Scribetrotter, excellent point – and an excellent interview that was on Women on the Road. Everyone, check it out here: http://www.women-on-the-road.com/mykugelhopf.html
As for Portugal, I´m still there (here!) – and still feasting on as much sardinhas, bacalhau, polvo and pasteis de natas I can! Annecy and Ferney-Voltaire are already on my list…!! When is the question!

Lani, thanks so much for your comment. No need to pick a favorite – keep enjoying all the adventures!

Stéphanie, et oui, un programme assez chargé (et vraiment chouette) pour 2009! J´ai trèèèèès envie de passer chez toi (surtout si tu me fais tes sublimes desserts aussi!), encore la question – quand?! Quant à la petite Naïs, je l´adore! Elle est trop forte ! Dis-lui qu´on va manger les macarons ensemble un jour…

By: Stéphanie

Stéphanie — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:52:50 +0000

Que de projets de voyages!!!! si tu as le temps et l’envie de passer par la maison quand tu seras à Paris (ou sur le retour) tu sais que tu es la bienvenue.
Je viens de montrer les photos à Naïs en lui disant “tu as vu le singe sur la banane??”, elle a répondu “ouai, mais tu as vu les macarooooooooons, la chance!”!!!!

By: Lani

Lani — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:35:58 +0000

Thank you for sharing all your adventures, recipes and photography with us …all your readers. I know that I just love to read your posts. They come to life in words and photos. I can’t say which one is my favorite either. Just clicking each one gives me great memories of the adventure you wrote about…Thanks once again….such a joy to read each and every word….

By: Scribetrotter

Scribetrotter — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:50:30 +0000

Hmmm…. seems I recall another cool interview with you in Women on the Road!

Also, I think Annecy should be added to your list of upcoming travels… that end of month antique market, preceded in the morning by the international food market at Ferney-Voltaire – a packed day but not if we start early!!

Enjoy Portugal – sardines, sempre sardinhas!

By: Lizounette

Lizounette — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:43:18 +0000

Great post and visuals, Kerrin – merci beaucoup! My favorite, and the “search” that lead me to you, is the jam-tart. Just lovely!

Aussi, L’shana tova to you and yours.