About

le jaune d´oeuf   - [ləʒondœf]

Allow me to introduce myself by blaming my kids. For if I didn´t have them, the idea of starting a food blog would never ever had occurred to me - perhaps I´d barely know that whole cosmos of food blogs even existed. If I didn´t have kids, I´d still work as a doctor - which is the greatest job in the world on condition that you don´t have too much distraction -, and preparing a fabulous meal would be my favorite thing to do on a free saturday night. But my kids changed my game, and I took a break from work to be there for them all the time. It also was the moment when I started cooking and baking more than ever before in my life.  Then we moved to France, and here, in our beautiful house with a view to the Eiffel tower, is where the cooking really began. 

Surrounded by delicacies and outstanding produce, learning the basics and secrets of French cuisine has brought me an incredible amount of joy from the moment we arrived here around two years ago. As a stranger, a foreigner lucky enough take a closer look,  it´s with a mix of curiosity and devotion that I lift the lids of the cocottes to see what´s simmering inside. Discovering the grand classics for myself, from an outsider´s perspective, I learn something new all the time, often surprised that French cooking is easier than I had thought (and sometimes the opposite).  Of course, I also cook the dishes from my German childhood - they "belong" to me in a very different way than the French ones. If German food is the heritage I was given, French food is the heritage I have to conquer and, in a way, to earn. When I was looking for a blog title, le jaune d´oeuf, the egg yolk, seemed to be a common thread, an ingredient that is an indispensable in my kitchen and stands for quite anything I want my food to be: local & lovely*, fresh & fancy, succulent & seasonal. Besides, I couldn´t live without eggs, really.

                                                                                                                                                    

                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                       

* borrowed that one from the beautiful namesake blog, "Local is lovely"