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March 4, 2008

A Slice of Spring — Un air de printemps

Recipe: Lemongrass, Vanilla and Red Currant Cakes

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 [...]

March 11, 2008

Rutabaga and Avocado Soup — Une soupe au rutabaga et à l’avocat

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 [...]

March 13, 2008

Coconut Milk and Strawberries, and a Newsletter — Du lait de coco et des fraises, et une lettre d’informations

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 [...]

March 16, 2008

Comfort in a Coconut Rice Pudding — Du réconfort avec un riz au lait de coco

Recipe: Coconut Milk Rice Pudding with Stewed Rhubarb and Strawberries

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 [...]

March 18, 2008

Root Vegetable Chips with a Soup — Des chips de légumes-racines avec une soupe

Recipe: Curried Green Asparagus Soup

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 [...]

March 20, 2008

Tidbits: Muffins for the Boston Globe and an article on Food & Travel

Recipe: Chocolate, Almond and Nut Muffins

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.” [...]

March 21, 2008

The foods of Easter — Les plats de Pâques

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 [...]

March 24, 2008

A Healthy Sunday in March — Un dimanche de mars qui fait du bien

Recipe: Chocolate, Banana, Pecan and Olive Oil Teacakes

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. [...]

March 28, 2008

Remembering the Fish of Guadeloupe — Le souvenir du poisson de Guadeloupe

Recipe: Baked Branzini

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 [...]

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