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It is not a Poisson d’avril (April Fool’s Day, literally in French, April Fish, when the French play hoaxes like in many countries, and act like silly foolish ones, taking great pleasure in sticking paper fish in someone’s back, without he or she noticing). We do those things yes. And I remember my school days [...]

Scallops Ceviche and Kumquats
There is one thing very true when I think about cooking. The boundaries do not exist and there are always new cooking techniques or dishes to discover. Food enables you to travel because most of the time, the choice of ingredients are conditioned by the country or region’s climate. Travel, food? My [...]

Entry for Foodography #4
If you like to have fun with food pictures like I do, you should consider participating in the Foodography Event organized once more by Sam and Andrew on Flickr. Thank you!
To celebrate Spring, the chosen theme this time is Green.
First entry:

Foodography event #3 from last month, still running I believe, had as [...]

And what about a bilingual post? You get the 2 worlds, French and English.
J’ai des petits paquets à livrer
Pour participer à Blog Appétit edition #7, chou et volaille, j’ai décidé de m’amuser à faire des choux farcis. C’est drôle car cela me donne l’impression de faire du travail manuel. Et comme j’adooooreuh toutes les épices [...]

Mes poches de bonheur - My Happiness Bags
I think there is no doubt that making ravioli provides true satisfaction. Cooking does in general for me, but there is definitely something bigger that happens when it comes to be making tiny little bags filled with all-the-things-to-make-you-happy, like des poches de bonheur. Now of course, one has [...]

A few weeks ago, my parents-in law were visiting us on their way back from Dublin, Ireland. We were pleased because in their bags, they brought goodies such as brown bread, potato bread (love love this Irish treat, in the morning, fried with bacon and eggs) and smoked salmon. But of course, beside their goodies [...]

It seems that we have something in common. We all have the same fascination for cookbooks. Or we all have different ways to inspire us to cook what we cook.
I was recently tagged for a CookBook Meme by Rob Bulli, I mean Rob the chemist’s, no, Toronto’s Rob the cook, from Hungry in Hogtown and [...]

Green Pea Soup
Give me three things:

Green for Spring
White for Purity
Food for Joy
Don’t you agree that white and green go so well together?
The soup season should be over but luckily for the food scene, the 4 seasons always bring something to celebrate, with one thing replacing another. After hearty winter soups come much lighter spring [...]

What if we were going to prepare Easter and play a little bit with chocolate. What about if during this coming week, chocolate was favored. I really have nothing against this idea since as you know by now, I love chocolate.
Did we, while we were kids, use to believe that around Easter time, all [...]

Leeks are not boring!
I know well that I am following a trend called green. And I do not feel bad about it because it really cheers me up to look at green things. Some people do not get affected by colours, that is ok. I personally find a lot of comfort in looking at things [...]

A Dream in Chocoland
I had mentioned earlier that this week would be the week of chocolate (still eating some eggs and need to make more), and that I was cooking a surprise - namely tomorrow.
My dream is not over.
Come back tomorrow then!

Tout nous sépare et pourtant … 2 filles, française, bloggeuse, gourmande, trentenaire, aimant la vie, les voyages, la photo et partager avec vous un peu de notre cuisine.
Everything could look like we belong to two different worlds yet. We are 2 women, French, bloggers, greedy for food, in our 30s, we both love to cook, [...]

We need a short break from chocolate, do you agree? I actually have two more recipes waiting in line, including my elected favorite Molten chocolate cake recipe. I also hope you liked yesterday’s adventure. Anne’s ideas are truly wonderful and I suggest that you go back to check her cooking experiments. Worth the trip to [...]

White Chocolate Gelée and raspberries with basil
The week preceding Easter is mostly coming to an end and yet, I still have so many chocolate ideas to share with you. I promise to post the second Molten chocolate recipe soon (for anyone impatiently waiting, hint hint MM !) Don’t we say that the best comes [...]

Are you thinking the same thing as me and experiencing a scene of déjà vu? You have seen those shells a few posts ago and you might be thinking “encore!” (again!) but wait. Instead of a dark sweet filling, I am giving you a savoury one. For the other crowd. After all, there are people [...]

The art of selective memory
We humans have the ability to memorize a lot of information. Every day, every minute, we see things, we hear sounds, and we remember them. We remember the colour of the car we passed on the way to the grocery store, a nice deep red, we remember the smell of the [...]

We say in French une dernière ligne droite, meaning a last run before the end. Chocolate week is about to end.
Comparison test #2 - Molten Chocolate Cake
Take the same idea, change the background a little with a few things here and there, basically just do as if you had a dress that you buy in [...]

We all have favorite pizza stories. For me these days, living in the United States and not getting to eating or making my own pizza is just impossible. But my love and attraction for pizza started many years before I came to live in the US, when I was still a *baby*. At 17, I [...]

Strawberry Minestrone and Lillet
Minestrone à ma façon
Minestrone in a sweet dessert? Why not?
L’apéritif is a well observed, celebrated time in the French cultural life. We love our apéritif. You are often invited to people’s house to share a drink with amuse-bouches and hors d’oeuvres before a meal, lunch or dinner, and this is commonly referred [...]

A three point post today Saturday.
1- A cake recipe: do you remember this cake here? Same recipe but with apples. I love to use a recipe over and over!
2- Coming soon as well……

Another one in the almond cake series. Just like a story with episodes, because I always do things in a series.
3- And coming [...]

No you are not having vision issues.
If you look on the left panel of the page, you might have noticed that the Archives links have been reorganized. Thanks to P. this whole section was changed for the best. I personally did not like the previous display which I found difficult to navigate through.
Each archived [...]

Would you like a spoonful of my dessert?
What is for Pud?
Desserts in England? Are you sure? Mais que oui, et des meilleurs. (Of course and some of the best) The challenge was launched by both Sam and JamFaced when they decided to organize What is for Pud?, in other words make an English dessert [...]

I am a big fan of raw fish, either under the form of a carpaccio, ceviche or sushi. My first choice would go for a thinly cut fish, hence I have a stronger liking for carpaccio. The first seafood carpaccio I made was on Christmas a few years ago, when I had bought fresh scallops [...]

Je suis venue vous offrir des roses
I Came To Give You Roses
There are vegetables that we do not buy often, aren’t there? Or when we do, we get home and wonder what on earth we will be doing with them. Or there are vegetables that we do not use because they smell very strongly. Non [...]

Cone ≠ Icecream
You do not need to think ice cream if I say cone. As a matter of fact, why not call the cone (le cornet) a tuile (a tile) because in reality, this is really what it is.
Were you really curious to know what I had decided to make with the pistachios I chopped [...]

Bleu, blue for boys
or

Rose, pink for girls
Which one do you prefer? It is hard sometimes to decide, don’t you think? I can be the real queen of undecisiveness! So my idea was easy. I don’t have to choose, there is blue for boys and pink for girls. Such a cliché!
Tarte aux fraises

Having a Juicer
Do you own a juicer? Do you drink freshly squeezed fruit and/or vegetable juices? Are you one of those who owns a juicer but just thinks it is a pain to take it out each time, or to clean it. Hence your juicer spends most of its life in the cupboard, all alone. [...]

If you had to choose one food that you would miss the most if it were to be removed from your diet, what would it be? Do you sometimes ask yourself this question? In my case, I often wonder. After looking at my daily food habits, a pattern became obvious. If there is no bread [...]

I would not be surprised if you would call me names, such as you, strawberry victim but my excuse is that I gave you warnings that such would be the case, especially as we officially enter the month of May, which for me means strawberries wearing their nicest attire. And so my love for strawberries [...]