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!
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Crown Roast of Pork with Lemon and Herb Paste.
This recipe makes for a very festive roast with original flavours without taking too much time to prepare. I seem to find this cut of pork easily around Christmas and Easter locally but any good butcher should be able to … Continue reading
Posted in Main Course, Uncategorized
Tagged Crown roast, moist and tender pork, pork roast
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Wild fiddlehead and fresh Fava bean salad
Tis the season to get in the woods and pick edible greens. Fiddleheads (or crosses de fougères in French) are a delicious vegetables full of vitamins. They must be picked while they are still completely rolled up, and only the … Continue reading
Posted in Starter, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Tagged crosses de fougeres, fava beans, fiddleheads, food, goat cheese, recipes, salad, verygoodrecipe
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Tarte aux Pommes
This recipe comes from my Aunt Janine Lombard and has been the family’s official version of Apple tart. It is a country tart, not the kind that you would buy at the “Patisserie”. I will explain… Soon, I will translate … Continue reading
Posted in Dessert, Uncategorized
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Potato Salad
Some really nice Yukon Gold potatoes or new potatoes are available right now, they are best for potato salad. Use potatoes of the same size, peel them or not, rinse in ice-cold water then, cook them whole on medium heat … Continue reading
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