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*reminder for Friday night : BEER & MUSSELS & (a few) CLAMS & fresh BREAD & maybe some FRIES with MAYONNAISE too ! This is an easy, end-of-the-week dish for two, especially if prepared with fresh vegetables and herbs. Obviously, the official name of this dish is "moules marinières" or...
WEIRD WEATHER, right ?! I don’t how it’s been where you live, but here in Paris, we’ve had a mild winter this year. Then it’s gets cold (as it should), then warm again, like spring or autumn, then cold again … « climate change » weirdness, I guess … This vegetarian soup...
APPLES AGAIN ?! Yes … but with walnuts this time and puff pastry … be BRAVE, another LAST apple dessert recipe this weekend and then nothing until next autumn or winter ! What else was I supposed to do ? I still had a jar of my apple compote in the refrigerator. I still had puff pastry that I had frozen and many, many,...
I like my hummus CHUNKIER (not too smooth & silky) and I NEVER ADD WATER … and of course it has to have lots of lemon, garlic, cumin and SCALLIONS. Is it truly a “hummus” ? It doesn’t matter, it’s how we like it ! If I hadn’t prepared and served this version of hummus several times in the past 2 weeks, I...
I DID IT ... "MYYYYYYY WAAAAAAY" ! Of course I did, why would I talk about it if I didn’t ? Of course, my mama’s chicken is delicious. The problem with greek-style lemon & oregano roasted chicken is that it’s always flavorful, but often, the skin isn’t crispy enough, or not crispy everywhere...
February 29 only comes every 4 years, which is why I’m taking this opportunity to show you how to make PERFECT FRIES ! *and pay careful attention, because I’ll only do this type of recipe/technique for you, only once every 4 years. And I’m not talking about the skinny fries you can get at McDonalds, but the...
CRISPY on the TOP, TENDER and MELT-IN-YOUR-MOUTH goodness, right UNDER . . . This is my next phase of experimenting with Asian-style cooking.The first experiment was the Chinese New Year peanut cookies with a Canadian chocolate-cherry touch (see recipe and images here). Now it’s the crispy pork belly with a European touch,...
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR !!! (which is tomorrow on February 8 and celebrated for 1 week) … and here are my traditional Chinese new year peanut cookies, but with a Canadian touch, a chocolate-covered candied-cherry heart, in the middle … WHY, you ask ? I’m not Chinese as you know, but several of my Canadian friends...
Stephanie & Caroline – better known as the "TATIN SISTERS" never had a mold like this to make elongated, easier-to-make and easier-to-serve upside down apple pie or “taaaaarte tatiiiiiiin” ! This interesting dessert which is now a classic, was invented accidentally around the end...
Let’s start at the very beginning, A very good place to start, When you read you begin with A-B-C, When you sing you begin with Do-Re-Mi, Dough- (yeah, it's funny) -Re-Mi, The first 3 ingredients just happen to be, Flour, Butter, Water … Flour-Butter-Water-Puff-Pastryyyyy ! …...
ACCIDENTAL PROPOSALS sometimes lead to ACCIDENTAL RECIPES . . . so let yourself go and say YES ! I rarely ever buy radishes. I always say “no thank-you” when my sweet & funny greengrocer-lady proposes that I get some. This time, I said YES (I feel bad always saying NO). On that same day, I bought some beautiful...
SHOW-OFF your LOVE, BUILD a "SPECIAL" DESSERT for VALENTINE’S DAY ! This apple-based Valentine’s Day dessert idea is actually a combination and reinterpretation of a few of my latest January and February recipes. One recipe or technique simply led to another … I had dear friends from France and Canada who were...
“Can’t you just make up a recipe with only 5 ingredients, that even I can make ?” … says (a friend & neighbor) Frank, to me last night as we were leaving an exhibition in Paris, of my friend Isabelle Stell’s beautiful & whimsical drawings (check it out, she has a website of her collection of drawings...
"GIGANTES" = GIANTS … and this is what we call these LIMA or BUTTER BEANS in Greek (to be more precise: fasolia gigantes). This is a dish prepared by my mom. The last time I enjoyed this vegetarian dish was last summer in Montreal, and many of you went crazy when I posted an iphone picture of the meal on the social...
Because it’s my BIRTHDAY today, because I’m trying to stay SIMPLE, because WE HAVEN’T FORGOTTEN WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR, because we were (and still are) "CHARLIE", because I also want to be "GEORGIE" again & because LIFE MUST GO ON … here’s my birthday cake to ME ! We’re invited...