Some women spend their lives cooking: cooking for their boyfriends, then husbands, family, for school events…some “crazy” women cook for their blogs….when do we cook for US? Mind you, I am not going to make this cake for me….only for me ! but I made it for my friends, my female friends, the girls, “las chicas”….

Saying goodbye to winter, and before the warm weather and sunshine would find us all like lizards sunbathing on the chairs of Parisian cafés…anything better than calling “the chicas” home, for a loooong afternoon, of coffee and tea and cakes and sandwiches, and gossip, shared frustration, insane laughter, tears, more gossip, hyaluronic acid (?!) ….endless changes of subject in three minutes, five subjects discussed at the same time, in five minutes… God bless “the chicas”…and I thank them for their support, even if they gave me incredulous faces when I first talked about the blog…(some of my chicas are “computer challenged”, so the idea of the blog was not easy to understand…), thank you girls for saying that my macarons are the best ones in Paris (well….they ARE my friends after all !)





Thank you even for criticism !!! My French chicas do not like dulce de leche…so I “ruined” the coconut macarons in their opinion…Thank you for shouting Wowwww !! when I showed you this fraisier… What would a woman do without her “chicas”? Thank you girls !!!





The photos could be brighter…..I could have done this in the editing process, but this is what my home looked like…Tuesday we were in the middle of the “giboulées de mars”, name given to the sometimes violent if short rainstorms that occur in France, in the passage from winter to spring…. Not that we cared a lot…we hardly noticed !





This time I chose light blue for decoration, Easter theme, my always present yoghurt pots (in light blue) this time as little spoon holders… Even sugar was light blue !!! This suited us well…I have friends of different nationalities but there was an Argentinian “surplus”…so light blue and white, the colours of our flag!

I adore these cups ! They were made by Bernardaud , a traditional French porcelain manufacturer. It was a limited collection that I bought just before returning to Argentina, in 2007, thinking I would never return to France…..





Well, now the recipe for this fraisier…..