Now please, please, do us one single favor: Stay! Stay long, as long as you can, not forever, but still for a couple of months; believe me when I say that we deserve you very much right now! We want to go outside, play, tan and swim, we want to ride our bicycles, plan trips and have picnics, uh yes, more than anything else we want to have picnics in the park! Talking about picnic, let’s talk about tarts! Whether it is tarts with fruit, tarts with fish, tarts with meat or tarts with vegetables: I can’t think of a better thing to have at a picnic than tart. Because it can be both savoury and sweet, it feeds the entire family (or aplenty of friends) and because it’s easy to prepare, and simply because it’s so, so, so delicious. One special tart, that potentially will become my favourite picnic tart…

Whether we are talking potatoes with eggs and mustard sauce, fish fingers or apple pancakes: There are those typical meals that probably remind you of your childhood for a whole lifetime. Because they taste just like the feeling to come home twirly from school, talking about everything that has happened ever more twirly, or because they take us back to the time when we were playing “treasure hunt” or “horse” for hours to then come home to eat plates full of those typical dishes.One particular meal that reminds me of my childhood is pan-seared salmon with parsley potatoes. Yet, the meal doesn’t only remind me of my childhood. What’s even more is the fact that it increases my anticipation for summer, although the creamy béchamel sauce probably is nothing you would call “summery light” by trend. Not only is salmon still one of my favorite meals; also the creamy sauce, that…