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Sunday Lunch: Three Vegetable Tartlets — Arugula — Mint Potato, Pea and Bresaola Salad I think that you might have a story just like mine. And perhaps you might also have the same love for fingerling potatoes. And oh, by the way, this is not un poisson d’avril – April’s Fool. Really. I actually did [...]

Les oeufs There are privileges that I wish I could have kept from my happy upbringing in rural France. Take for example eggs. Would you have dreamed of anything better but collect eggs still warm, with feathers — and dirt — stuck to them, from the poulailler (chicken house)? “Tu les laisses pour moi hein, [...]

A recipe in the Washington Post What a treat! Saying that I was surprised when accomplished baker and cookbook author Nick Malgieri asked me if I would like to contribute to an article he was writing for the Washington Post Food section would be mild: I felt really excited. He was asking for a baking [...]

Beet Cucumber Soup and Smoked Trout, Apple and Avocado Tartines From high above, the rare spotless white patches of snow on the ground sparkle in the morning sun like precious gems. They are irregular in shape as they are scattered in the still rather gray-looking landscape, but when I imaginatively frame them together, they form [...]

Cuisine Light Magazine Contribution When the Fedex truck pulled in front of our house this morning and I heard a noise of a package dropped on the floor, I knew that it might be for me: I was expecting mail from France. Excited, I hopped to the door as fast as I could — I [...]

Beet and potato gnocchi in a warm salad Oh mince! I had forgotten about those beets! I had to find something to do with them, n’est-ce pas ? Nothing hurts me more than tossing food because I forget about it. I could have done something I knew well how to, but I did not feel [...]

Ocean Perch Papillote with ginger, lemon and julienned vegetables Another week when I am bringing to you more news, and articles. The first thing? I was really nicely surprised, and honored, that Kim O’ Donnel tried one of my recipes and wrote about it in the Washington Post’s Food Blog, a Mighty Appetite. She reminded [...]

Whole Mackerels There are words that simply get lost in translation. Really, they do. Take the French expression “J’leur ai fait leur fête” for example. Of course, if I kept to a word-to-word translation, it would mean, I made a feast to them (them being the fish). But in fact, the meaning is not this [...]

Dark Chocolate and Strawberry Tartlet The car pulled in front of the house five minutes earlier. Mince, déjà ? (Already?) In my rush to leave the house to get to my chiropractic appointment on time, I forgot one of the strawberry chocolate tartlets I had made earlier in the day, that I meant to bring [...]

Spring in Boston It’s hard not to love spring. Well then, it’s hard not to love fall, winter or summer too. Perhaps because I was brought up in a French region where seasons are well-defined, I like it this way. After winter, I rejoice about spring. After spring, I get excited about summer. And after [...]

Tomorrow is the day when we leave. Can you tell that I am happy and excited? Well, I am ready! But I meant to share an exciting piece of news with you before going. It has to do with tomorrow Thursday April 24th too. I did something that I’d never done before — and oh [...]