Healthy, French, Home-cooking, always fresh, (almost) no cream required!
This is about simple cooking for my kids away from home, family and friends and friends of friends. Not quite recipes, just inspiration.Often, no exact quantities, certainly no scientific potions, but a bit of magic and lots of love! and you could always ask for more details.
Share my love of cooking, enjoy the Pacific West Coast bounty and help me pass along the French Heritage from my Grand-mothers and my Dad who taught me.Salt and Pepper
Even when I don't say so, use Baleine sea-salt and fresh ground pepper from your Peugeot pepper mill, goes without saying!
Category Archives: Events
Downton Abbey’s Dark Chocolate Bread Pudding with Salted Caramel Sauce
Last night, I was invited to dinner and showing of Episode 1 Season 3 of Downton Abbey, a casual Sunday night with friends. They roasted the Rosemary lemon chicken, a free range tender and tasty bird from Metchosin, raised with … Continue reading
Posted in Dessert, Events
Tagged bread pudding, caramel sauce, downton abbey recipe, food, recipes, verygoodrecipe
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2012 Fawn growing fast, eating all my flowers and bushes
The doe must have heard that Jules the Jack Russell terrier was no longer on duty here in Victoria BC, since he got a transfer and huge promotion in March as guardian of the orchard in the Garden of Eden. … Continue reading
Voodoo doughnuts earns Guinness record for biggest box
Good things come in pink boxes and the larger the box the better. The largest box of doughnut ever just earned Voodoo the Guinness record last Saturday. Of course, the box was pink! I happened to be there a few … Continue reading
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Tagged doughnut, doughnuts, food, guinness record, news, portland, Voodoo doughnuts
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Rare bright red lobster looks cooked but it still lives…
By Greg Burchell (from the National Post July 06, 2011) When a Quebec grocery store opened a shipment of lobsters, one of the crustaceans looked like it had already been boiled and was ready to eat — until it started … Continue reading
South-Western Cuisine Class by Andy Food
I travelled all the way to Phoenix for this cooking class (not quite…), and considering the unexpectedly cool temperature and heavy rain, standing behind the furnace was actually the place to be. First, we got a lesson on different peppers’ … Continue reading
10 kg of White Chanterelles
Recipes including Chanterelles: Chanterelle omelet Chanterelle tart Chanterelle quiche . . Chanterelles in butter and parsley What do we do with 10 kg of white chanterelles? First, I air-dry them spread on trays for a day especially if they were … Continue reading
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Tagged Chanterelle, chanterelles, cooking, food, recipe, recipes, what to do with chanterelles
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Chti dinner, from the North (of France)
I visited my sister in France this summer on her farm in the country. The 200 +year old farmhouse attracts family and friends and there was not a day with less than 15 for dinner. In most household this would … Continue reading
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Tagged belgian endives, carbonnade de boeuf, chti, endives, food, maroilles, recipe, tarte au sucre
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Icelandic Delicacies: Puffin, Whale, Foal and Fermented Shark
The Atlantic Puffin forms part of the national diet in Iceland, where the species does not have legal protection. Puffins are hunted by a technique called “sky fishing”, which involves catching low-flying birds with a big net. The meat is … Continue reading
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Tagged fermented shark, foal, food, iceland, icelandic food, laekjarbrekka, minke whale, puffin, recipes, restaurants, travel, whale meat
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Icelandic gourmet fares
Four days in Iceland were not nearly long enough to discover all the fine foods grown , raised or fished locally. The island is a gourmet’s paradise providing staples of very high quality and most unusual choices for the daring … Continue reading
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Tagged food, horse carpaccio, hotel ranga, iceland, icelandic lobster, laekjarbrekka, lamb neck, recipes, reindeer, skyr, smoked lamb, travel
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Bistrot Le Paradou in Provence
This Provençal bistrot is the the best find. I noticed it on approach to Fontvieille, a small town near the Roman town of Arles, where my dad spends his holiday in August. I thought I should make it a point … Continue reading
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Tagged bistro, bistrot, fontvieille, food, paradou, Provence, restaurant provencal
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Markus’ Wharfside, possibly the best on Vancouver Island
Anchored the sailboat behind the breakwater in Sooke basin last night after an 80 nautical miles ride from Effingham Bay in Barkley sound. Quickly inflated the dinghy and left it at the Government dock, and walked up the few steps … Continue reading
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