Colloquial Cookin'

5 janvier 2009

Oxtail Carbonnade

In the wake of my Alsacian themed recipes, let's stay up there in Northern France, with one foot across the border, in Belgium. Now you may not be a big offal buff (un mordu d'abats), but oxtail is really not that bad. A few words of caution: when buying...

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1 janvier 2009

A Cook's Rambles#1 : Dehillerin

On my short vacation to Paris (visiting family, eating myself to death, etc. - routine), I took advantage of a sunny morning to do a bit of shopping in the legendary culinary cavern, Dehillerin. It's right in the city centre, in the first Arrondissement,...

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31 décembre 2008

Cassata Siciliana

Fed up with the traditional French cuisine I've been inflicting on you lately? We'll come back to it, don't worry *smirk*. Instead here comes a slice of Sicily. Four slices of génoise biscuit, actually, with ricotta cream, grated chocolate and loads of...

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27 décembre 2008

Schwobebredele

Stuck in your kitchen due to excessive snowing? Get your circus cookie cutters out and hark the call of the (Alsacian) wild. boost up the bass baby National Geographics (cf Les Photographies de la vie sauvage ) is also interested in the tragic fate of...

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19 décembre 2008

Chili, cake, flan tart and ribeye

All in one shitty photomontage. Lucky bastards.

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12 décembre 2008

Grand-Mère Blanc's Poulet à la Crème

I see some of you have been in a naughty mood recently, landing here with Google requests such as "How to seduce my flatmate" and "Brussel sprout dessert". Now I'd like to point to you that although I don't have definitive answers for either of those...

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30 novembre 2008

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Lazy-Sundayite is a condition that affects me every week, mostly on Sundays but I will have the occasional Demotivated-Mondayite once in a while, which equally sucks. Today energy levels are kind of ground-hugging (au ras des pâquerettes), in imitation...

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23 novembre 2008

Pear and almond tart

Have you ever shame-posted? No idea what the concept stands for? Ok, some excellent bloggers have admitted to bad picture days, in the same way most of us will have a bad hair day once in a while. Which reminds me that I need to book a hairdresser's appointment...

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22 novembre 2008

Flourless chocolate walnut cookies

You can find a hundred excuses to bake those cookies. In my case, I saw its name and realised I had indeed run out of flour. That sucks doesn't it (c'est râlant, hein). Next time I have flour, I'll go for gluten intolerance. This one is for Peter from...

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17 novembre 2008

Brussel sprouts with pomegranate molasses dressing

It so happens that my restaurant buddy Edgar and I went to this funky Lebanese place somewhere in the middle of Manhattan (I was starving so much after a long concert that the precise location remains a little fuzzy – besides it was night time and all...

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16 novembre 2008

Shichimi togarishi

Thanks to great friends and sponsors, I'm about to resuscitate the old blog. Always overdo shichimi. It clears your sinuses. Stay tuned!

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30 septembre 2008

Hibernation and peach and bacon salad

Aloa people, Although I have arrived safe and sound, I will have to abandon you for a while. You can listen to this delicious Renaud song, which will provide ample vocab for you to sustain an entire conversation in colloquial French on how to beat the...

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21 septembre 2008

Pralines

As it happens, I ought to be packing up, ready for tomorrow morning. But quite frankly, when you receive such a lovely present, who gives a damn (on s'en cogne). Look at those scrumptiously crispy, toasted pralines! Aren't they thrillingly green? And...

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14 septembre 2008

Profiteroles

There has been what I can only describe as a considerable choux madness on the food blogging scene lately, all due to the Daring Bakers' enthusiasm in attempting, successfully on the whole, éclairs au chocolat. I do not consider myself (yet) daring enough,...

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8 septembre 2008

Boudin blanc with prunes

Ahoy! As I awoke to a dreary morning (that accounts for the poor quality of the pictures, btw), I realised this finally was the big day, Boudin-Making Day. After gathering strength from a hearty breakfast, I put the radio on and set down to work. Some...

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2 septembre 2008

Mirabelle jam

It's not the proper kind, not the real deal, the one that you let boil in huge copper pans and then leave in your basements for a couple of months for it to develop it perfect flavour. You make it, you scoff it (tu le fais, tu le bâfres). Fast, preferably,...

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23 août 2008

Mirabelle plum tart

It's in season, it's gorgeously golden and sweet, it's the Mirabelle plum! It's likely to be unknown to most of you who live outside France - it grows in the Lorraine and Vosges region, as the clever pictogram on my map shows: It's the princess of plums...

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22 août 2008

Rosemary Focaccia

Hello people! The demonic and yet genious ZenChef has perfidiously suggested that I have a look at this institution that all foodbloggers know through and through, I have named Foodgawker. I have been unable to blog since, I was far too busy salivating...

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23 juillet 2008

Vanilla panna cotta with raspberry coulis

Until the end of the school year, I was teaching part time in a very posh school, the name of which I will keep to myself. The scandal is really too great. Excommunication is in the air, no less. It is very religious school. The chapel, of vast proportions,...

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3 juillet 2008

Marbré pistachio cake

Worse than the administration penpushers, and one rung down on the evolution ladder, are security staff members. Getting a visa, albeit diplomatic, requires you to pay two visits to the consulate. When I first dropped my application, it was almost 30°C...

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