• Bilingualism

    Raising Multilingual Children – A Blog Hop

    This was always our plan. From the moment that my husband and I realised that we were destined to stay together, to marry, to raise a family; we had always known that our children would be bilingual. It simply wasn’t an option to do otherwise as our parents do not speak each others’ languages. For our children to be able to communicate with both sides of their extended family, bilingualism was essential. In this week’s bloghop, Tales From Windmill Fields asks   How important is language learning for you? Are your children bilingual? Will they be? How do you keep the languages going?   My husband is German, I am Scottish and…

  • Food

    Banana Cupcakes with Caramel Fleur de Sel

    When I renamed the blog, I decided that I would make Salted Caramels and perhaps use the photos for the blog logo. Easier said than done, I discovered. When I searched for a recipe, I found that almost all of them called for what the Americans call “heavy cream”. This is a cream with a fat content of 36 to 38%, in between single cream and double cream. The closest I can find in Switzerland is Vollrahm, in French Crème Entière, with 35%. For making caramels, it is incredibly important to have a candy thermometer, which I did not have. I bought what I thought was a candy thermometer but…