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It all began last winter, because of a FOIE GRAS. Here, the FOIE GRAS is served with small and thin toasted slices of white bread or brioche. I guess it’s so the bread doesn’t compete with the taste and texture of the more delicate foie gras / duck liver pâté . It’s also served with some kind of jam and/or jelly...

BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE . . . here is the 1st of some of the CONDIMENTS you can make "soon" for this autumn, winter and spring. Simple recipes that simply require patience, but not long to put together. You just the need to wait for the ingredients to release their water, or absorb the flavors or get pickled and/or...

Yup, me again … just about anything can be an ‘okay & acceptable tomato pizza sauce’ … even some crushed tomatoes with some salt and olive oil and maybe some pepper because simple is really nice too. But how great can that pizza ‘sauce’ be (and I say ‘sauce’ as opposed to a crushed tomato...

PART #2 of the summer series . . . I could go on all summer long with the different condiments like home-made sauerkraut, relish, ketchup & mustard (it’s easy you know) but I’ll be sharing all 4 of those recipes with you next summer, so I can publish other stuff I’m excited about this year… 1 STEP (or 2) AT A...

3 THINGS … The 1st : I LOVE RAW OYSTERS, but with nothing (no lemon, no vinegar, no shallots, just the oyster liquid/liquor …) and accompanied with bread and salted butter. So there was obviously no point in publishing a recipe of OYSTERS with NOTHING, even though I would have liked to and would have laughed alot ! The...

ALL THOSE PUMPKIN LEFTOVERS & “WASTE NOT WANT NOT” . . . or a story about what's inside all of those pumpkins. All those stringy and pulpy filaments & seeds just like “GUTS”, usually just tossed out after that first difficult cut separating the two halves of a pumpkin, then the scooping and the...

ALMONDS from APRICOTS ? . . . Yes ! (but I’ll explain later). This summer, I’ve been giving a few cooking workshops during the ecologically-conscious Festival #ENSEMBLE! in the Cité de la Mode et du Design, overlooking the Seine river and which is literally a 5-minute bike ride from my place. The event takes place over a...

YUP, I THINK WE ALL NEED TO HAVE A LONG & INTELLIGENT TALK in order to understand and to demystify "foolproof" thin crust pizza dough ingredients and techniques  (once and for all) … pffffffff ! Some equations and calculations will also be necessary … but WHY ? Because when you use only 6 BASIC...

4 STRAWBERRY RECIPES, all starting with the same initial base of strawberries mixed with sugar and lemon wedges that you let rest for 18-24 hours … A transformation occurs and then you end up with a mixture of half solids and half liquid. Then everything is divided into 4 equal amounts of solids and 4 equal amounts of liquid...

2016 will be the YEAR for “TIPS & TRICKS” . . . not necessarily mine, but just stuff I’ve learned over the years (accompanied by many mistakes) ! Let’s begin with puff-pastry dough, there’s the authentic way of making it, where you have to flatten the butter and sandwich it inside...

All RECIPES don’t have to be “FANCY”. . . BASICS such as CONDIMENTS are a “rite of passage”. Here’s the continuation of the CONDIMENTS series : 1 main ingredient, some salt, some spices, some elbow grease and much patience. SAUERKRAUT is something everybody is familiar with and it’s...

*and this includes "EVERYTHING" : recipes, foods, drinks, containers, amounts, weights, planning, organization, preparation, transportation, cleaning up . . . yup, absolutely EVERYTHING !* *(yeah, it's a long & heavy list but just print up everything & adapt it to your needs) ... :) "What’s the weather...

«BREAD is LOVE» & «LOVE takes TIME» . . . remember this !* *(especially if you decide to watch my 15-minute step-by-step video, but you can speed up to 10X to 1½ minutes, if you must, pffffffffffffff) ... REAL-TIME REQUIREMENTS : 2 minutes to weigh and measure the ingredients 2 minutes to...

"THIS IS THE BEST ACCIDENTAL RECIPE THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO ME ! ". . . and here’s the story : One evening, I was testing different batters for coating and frying fish (for a fish & chips recipe) using different combinations of flour, fermented milks, beer, etc. and I left the extra leftover batters in bowls on the...

Food provides nourishment. Preparing food provides comfort and occupies our thoughts. Sharing food leads to social interactions and bonding. The recent tragic events in Paris on November 13, 2015 pushed me to cook and bake and prepare more recipes than usual this weekend … Here is a 2-in-1 apple recipe. Using 2 kg of cooked apples (with 2...