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29 mars 2009

Sweet Sticky Rice

Marc, Stéphane, Liz and myself made a poor attempt at going to the bacon take-down in Williamsburg on Sunday afternoon. It turned out, an hour before it even started, all the tickets were sold. Well we could have been cheesed off (ça aurait pu nous foutre...

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12 juin 2009

Pork Ragoût With Sage and Beans

I must be terribly naïve, or a little dim-witted (un peu nunuche) perhaps. I still don't understand why people google (and several times a day too) the words "kiwi porn", which in turns brings them to my uncanny fruit post. I mean, it's pretty damn flattering...

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27 mai 2009

Bacon Fougasse

You try to read books in a New York research library. Frederick the Great's relationships with his Kapelle musicians have never been so thrilling. And clumps of old men with moustaches (what's with the moustache, I ask?) and an optional hunch keep chatting...

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10 avril 2009

Cured Salmon

The good news about having Marc over at your dinner party, taking pictures, is you can guarantee that all the food is going to look glam. The other good news is that every bite tastes as good as it looks. You'll have to take Colloquial Cook's word for...

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19 février 2009

Zimtsterne

"Here she goes again with her stupid cookies cutters and crappy photomontages". Well snap out of it people (faites pas la gueule) it's now officially one of my specialties. But today I feel like I'm perfectly entitled to it. You see, I have the flu. (here,...

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2 juin 2008

Tarte aux fraises

Sometimes your fate for a couple of years to come is in the hands of incompetent white collars (des ronds-de-cuir imcompétents). Then you have reasons to be scared. Of course, there is nothing you can do, except wait, and they can't even manage to stick...

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16 mars 2009

Irish Soda Bread

It's the leprechauns' no-knead bread. My roomies love it. It never survives the evening. Gold pots suck for soda bread. We are talking ultra speedy bread-making here. The measurements don't need to be terribly accurate. I have put in brackets the unauthentic...

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16 juin 2008

Pistachio and raspberry financiers

What? You thought we'd have that chocolate mousse on its own? You must be out of your mind (vous êtes cinglé, ma parole). And those financiers (like pretty much all financiers) are 1) fast to whip up, and 2) you're left with a couple of yolks you can...

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25 janvier 2009

Cannelés Bordelais

Carrying on with the Tour de France of scrumptious edibles, next stop is Bordeaux. Call me stir-crazy, but I'm having a bloody good time (j'ai peut-être la bougeotte mais qu'est-ce que je me poile). Cannelés belong to a long tradition of making fiddly...

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3 juin 2008

Griotte clafoutis

I'm not going to pretend any longer. I think I have identified myself as a "nervous baker". I have now officially entered a second round of administration ultimate-fighting and the urge to bake is overwhelming. I still haven't quite figured out whether...

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14 mai 2008

Date Maamouls

Do you remember those shiny exciting days when you were young and foolish and thought that eating a teaspoon of chocolate powder was bound to be a more intense experience than, say, dissolving the powder in a predictably boring bowl of hot milk? Yeah,...

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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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20 juin 2009

Spent-Grain Bread

The star of the show: spent grain, courtesy of the Brooklyn Brewery ... And the supporting cast: The (over)enthusiastic biga The soaker Let's give them a big round of applause. Ok, so I must be the last schmuck sporting a cold mid-June. Which means a)...

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23 juillet 2009

The Return of the Colloquial Cook

Don't worry, no light-saber involved (yet). Just to let you guys know that my new blog is up - still a bit cranky and jet-lagged from the move, but pretty operational! Don't forget to update your feed. The new address is: http://colloquialcooking.com/...

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22 mars 2009

Hot Cross Buns

If you were born (to baking at least) a year ago, you may never had kneaded anything. At best you may have kneaded (accidentally I hope) your pie dough and realised it was BAD. Then more articles than you can shake a wooden spoon at were written on how...

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9 mai 2008

Glacé baby turnips

Dear friends, Colloquial cookin' is here to help you: 1- prepare for your next cooking holidays in France. Swearing will make helping hands chop/peel/clean up faster, it will also ease the pain when you accidentally squirt lemon juice in your eyes. 2-...

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25 mars 2009

A Pen and a Fork #1 : Beef Jerky

"And so the winter crept slowly on, and the brief, brilliant summer flitted in, then out, like a golden dream. The second snows were upon the little fort, the second Christmas, the second long, long weeks and months of the new year. An unspoken horror...

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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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8 mars 2009

English Pork Pie

You want lard AND butter, you want ground forcemeat AND diced Berkshire ham, you want PORK PIE! Today's pictures are all Marc's - he uncannily captured the spirit of that pork pie. Man, that pie was so mean I was on the verge of proposing to myself.The...

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20 janvier 2009

Five Minute White Bread

Easiest post ever. I'm jumping on the five-minute bandwagon. The consensus requires me to tell you to go buy the book (Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking ). Or borrow it from a friend. You make the basic...

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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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21 mai 2008

Ragù

After I tied my hair in a black handkerchief and put on a reasonably unwelcoming if not threatening face, I set myself to the cooking of the ragù. I deliberately ignored the original family recipe my own mamma tried to push forward, deciding to give Locatelli's...

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18 mai 2008

Pasta

Brace yourself, Barilla, here comes Mamma Chiara. No fussing about, straight to the point: 200g flour100g fine semolina3 eggs1/2 tsp salta glug of olive oil (what, not precise? Do not get on the wrong side of Mamma Chiara.)a tub of Elbow Grease (no, it's...

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15 avril 2009

Morel Macarons with Foie-Gras Ganache

Last week I was lucky enough to receive a little ziploc through the mail, filled with dried morels kindly offered by Justin from Marx Foods, and the mission to come up with a recipe. I can't say I looked very far. Pierre Hermé's new book on Macarons (a...

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20 juin 2008

Raspberry tartelettes with macaron topping

It's in season, so yes, raspberries again! The little buggers are great at the moment. I was meeting up with a friend this afternoon, and we were discussing the idea of a bake-off (little, if nothing to do with baekhoffe - although why not go for a baekhoffe...

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