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Vanilla, Lemongrass, Poppyseeds, Red Currant and Almond Teacakes
“J’vais faire les courses (I am going grocery shopping),” I cried out bundled up in my thick coat, hat and gloves on, clearly ready to step outside within the minute.
“Did you warm up the car?” P. shouted back from upstairs.
“Merde,” I thought. I had not.
If I was [...]

Rutabaga and Avocado Soup, with chorizo
P. woke up with a headache.
“I had too much wine last night,” he said looking quite sleepy when he walked into the living room.
A few friends had come for dinner the night before, so this did not really surprise me.
“Did you know that we were going into daylight [...]

Coconut Milk Rice Pudding with Rhubarb and Strawberries
“Ce sont les premières, goûte !” (these are the first of the season, have a taste!) my mum told me as she held a red strawberry she had just picked from the garden.
It was small and irregular in shape, still covered in dirt from the heavy rain [...]

You are quite amazing — and funny — and I am most likely predictable. You were right in guessing that there was stewed fruit involved in my dessert. What else? I could well have used tapioca — actually I did too one evening to use fruit leftovers — but instead, my dessert was an unpretentious [...]

Curried Green Asparagus Soup
“J’ai fait des chips,” I told my mum on the phone.
She went silent, and then I heard her laugh. I laughed too.
“Des chips ? Ah ben, t’es franchement drôle !” (You are really funny!)
I knew we were both thinking about the same thing. We were thinking about my dad and [...]

Chocolate, pistachio and pecan muffins
I know what you are going to say. You really do not need yet another muffin recipe. You most likely have already marked many pages of your cookbooks featuring muffin recipes on them. My view on it? Another muffin recipe is never going to hurt. “Vous ne la sentirez pas passer.” [...]

You can trust many of the food magazines everywhere to remind you of the foods popular at Easter. Amongst them, you will invariably find recipes using lamb, eggs and of course, chocolate. I am lucky: I am fond of the three.
So my dilemma is that I really had many egg and chocolate recipes ready for [...]

Chocolate, Banana, Pecan and Olive Oil Teacakes
When I go out for a run earlier in the morning, I notice that the air is crisp despite a generous sun outside that fools me into believing that it is perhaps fifteen degrees warmer. Yet, it does not stop the birds from joyfully chirping, quite on the contrary. [...]

Branzini
“Do you think I should take one or two?” I asked the fishmonger. I noticed his thick accent when he replied: clearly, he was not American. “He sounds Portuguese,” I kept thinking while staring at the slow movement of his lips in the hope to decipher clearer information. The fact that he was mumbling and [...]