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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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13 février 2009

Matcha Shortbreads

Some recipes are harder to post than others. You slyly nibble at the raw dough (tu grignotes la pâte crue en douce) and faster than you can say Jack Robinson there is hardly any left in the bowl. Bottom line is, no pictures. Or you end up cooking whatever...

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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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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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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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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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23 juin 2008

Fennel and orange escabèche

But what on earth is an escabèche, you may ask. I didn't know either, because on the picture coming with my recipe it really did just look like a fricassée, or maybe sautéed fennel. So I asked someone trustworthy and knowledgeable. No, not him. He's a...

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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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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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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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12 juin 2008

Ligurian lemon cake

I've been salivating at the thought of that cake since I read the recipe. It's still in the oven as we speak, but judging by the smell I think I might go and ask Pierre Hermé to marry me right away. His crazy wife is up to no good with her cocoa/mayonnaise...

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26 mai 2008

Hazelnut financiers

Last Friday I made one of my students cry. It was a one to one exam. I just told her that she had two minutes left to finish her presentation, and she started the "cry routine". 1) The eyes fill up with tears that multiple eyelid batting can't keep in...

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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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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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15 juin 2008

Chocolate mousse

I know what some of you are going to say: "Why on earth would one need another bloody chocolate mousse recipe on the blogs?" (well YOU are well out of order sir). Well for one, I don't know that there is such a thing as too many chocolate mousse recipes...

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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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22 juin 2008

Gâche vendéenne

Another hit from the great Pétrin - never ever been disappointed by the recipes in there. I trust the woman completely. My breads never look quite as pretty as hers, but the taste, people...! You know you look so good, little brioche. I halved the proportions...

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16 mai 2008

Zuppa-cappuccino di foglie e gambi di ravanelli, schiuma di pepe biancho

Who said this blog couldn't be rude AND pretentious? Take a walk on the bling-bling side with me today. As I tend to be nice, and also because, let's not forget, I am a teacher (by the way, health and safety, guys, health and safety is key), translation...

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19 avril 2009

A Pen and a Fork #2: Hot-Dogs

And A Giveway!! "How much junk food does he eat?" Dr. Olman is asking."Oh," Janice says, with enthusiasm, "he's a real addict." His wife is, it occurs to Harry, a channel that can't be switched. […] ". . . tons of fat through his system," Dr. Olman is...

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23 mai 2008

Uncanny Sink Moments

"The Little House in the Sink" is a remake for lilliputian foodies, but they had to give it up afterthe actors complained of chilblains and chronic athlete's foot. What a great shame.

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17 avril 2009

Uncanny Root Vegetable Moment

Can't remember what they're called. "Party animal turnips"?

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