The Little Things

We had a Charlotte Royale for the weekend and it was really delicious!

I must admit I find it difficult to search for a good charlotte recipe either with charlotte or charlotte royale on the internet, certainly because there are so many variations and different methods to prepare the two. Therefore I just google information about charlotte royale to see its origin and how should it be. Having known that it should be mouled with swiss rolls and filled with Bavarian cream. I started to wrap all these together to make my own version of charlotte which can conquer my ‘strict’ critic. I always try to make it simple but sticked to its original conception of the dish but still find this a bit cumbersome to prepare.

Keukenhof- the Garden of Europe

Posted on April 10, 2011

by Olivia

[2011-04-10]

My bf and I went to Keukenhof, Lisse, the Netherlands, which is known as the world’s largest garden and also the Garden of Europe yesterday. It was as I expected of great variety of flowers, according to its official website at keukenhof.nl, there are approximately seven millions bulb of flowers. I was entirely amazed at how beautiful flowers can be and it was really interesting to see fields and fields of flowers. Just like looking at a pretty magnetic mat but made of colorful flowers.

I have been living in Holland for on and off more than a year but this is the first time I’ve been to the garden but I do not regret it, I very much enjoyed his company. And we both captured tons of beautiful pictures.