Lenka´s Corner

The time has come for another one of my kitchen experiments. This time, luckily, everything went well as planned. Do you know the post-Christmas feeling when all the delicious sweets and cakes suddenly vanish? Trust me, I do, too. This year they came and went away too fast. On the first Sunday of the new year my sweet tooth was shouting at me, longing after something sweet, yet quick to make and not terribly sugary. I decided to do a good old brownie, but with a Lenka-twist. Because nothing works well with a little recipe personalization, right? My brownie is a good alternative for the classic version, but it´s improved with a few drops of the vanilla-bourbon extract and crushed hazelnuts sprinkled on the top. This little “jazzup” served with a spoonful of peanut butter on the top and chopped banana on the side makes for a perfect and easy sunday masterpiece. Want to know the “how-to”? Just keep on reading! INGREDIENTS: 300g 70% dark chocolate 250g room-temperatur...

Happy New Year everyone! The time has come to sum up everything that happened (and didn´t happen) during the past 365 days.  Time runs wild, everything changes from one day to another and we are here to witness it all. So let me tell you about my 365 days of 2017.  Actually, I had the roughest start to the year. The holidays went past faster than I anticipated and it was time to return to school. Don´t get me wrong, I loved my school; well, apart from the one professor that was determined to turn my life into a living hell. Oh, yes, I get it, it all sounds exactly like the sentence a lazy student would say. But that´s not my case. Well not since I started my Masters. The thing is, she just found a good reason to embarrass me and almost insult me in front of my classmates on my presentation day just because I was known to hate the subject she was teaching. It was the worst feeling, having just been turned into a little nothing in front of other people by someone I was...