• French Financiers Recipe (Brown Butter Almond Cakes)

    This was meant to be the first recipe on my blog. And now here we are: a year later. But better late than never. Why I love Financiers Financiers are small French almond cakes and ignoring twenty years of Christmas biscuit baking, the thing I bake most often. There are many reasons for that: Yes,…

  • Boxemännchen

    Note: This Boxemännchen recipe was originally part of my Biscuit Advent Calendar, a one-recipe-a-day email series in December. I’m gradually turning those recipes into proper blog posts so they’re easier to find. You can find the other recipes and sign up for the next round if you want here. Today is Kleeschen (St Nicholas) Day in Luxembourg.…

  • Vanillekipferl (Vanilla Crescents)

    Note: This Vanillekipferl (Vanilla Crescent) recipe was originally part of my Biscuit Advent Calendar, a one-recipe-a-day email series in December. I’m gradually turning those recipes into proper blog posts so they’re easier to find. You can find the other recipes and sign up for the next round if you want here. I’ll confess something up front: I…

  • Aachener Printen Recipe

    Note: This Aachener Printen recipe was originally part of my Biscuit Advent Calendar, a one-recipe-a-day email series in December. I’m gradually turning those recipes into proper blog posts so they’re easier to find. You can find the other recipes and sign up for the next round if you want here. Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without gingerbread. There…

  • Butter Biscuits Recipe

    Note: This Butter Biscuit Cutout recipe was originally part of my Biscuit Advent Calendar, a one-recipe-a-day email series in December. I’m gradually turning those recipes into proper blog posts so they’re easier to find. You can find the other recipes and sign up for the next round if you want here. These butter biscuits are the ones…

  • Coffee Hussar Biscuits Recipe

    Note: This Coffee Angel Eye Biscuits recipe originally part of my Biscuit Advent Calendar, a one-recipe-a-day email series in December. I’m gradually turning those recipes into proper blog posts so they’re easier to find. You can find the other recipes and sign up for the next round if you want here. I’ve baked this recipe for…

  • Forget the Perfect Formula. Health Is Gradient Descent.

    Today I want to take you on a little journey: to show what math and engineering can teach us about nutrition and health. And maybe we’ll even take the tiniest peek into how computers do all the cool things they do these days like for example AI aka large language models. OK wait, what? 😅I…

  • Cinnamon Stars Recipe

    Note: This Cinnamon Star recipe originally part of my Biscuit Advent Calendar, a one-recipe-a-day email series in December. I’m gradually turning those recipes into proper blog posts so they’re easier to find. You can find the other recipes and sign up for the next round if you want here. Cinnamon stars are not the biscuit that draws…

  • The Duty Trap : What the nervous system actually needs and why it probably isn’t more sleep

    I set up this blog as a biohacking blog. Why? Frankly, I AM ambivalent about the term. On the downside, it implies ruthless, somewhat masculine self-optimization. Mostly using expensive gadgets to track exactly what your body does so that you can head off its undesirable reactions to the way your analytical mind has decided your…

  • Happy World Women’s Day?

    On the alternatives to fitting in at all costs Today I went out for lunch with a former colleague. A guy (in my former line of work the majority of colleagues fall on that side of the gender line).He told me about one his female colleagues. “She’s an inspiration to me,” he said. “She joins…