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Dark chocolate and coconut milk creams I know. I am not writing a lot in this space these days, but I promise that there’s a lot of food prepared in my kitchen. I sometimes wonder how comes it disappears so quickly! Anyway, while I am trying to find time to write something that will sound [...]

Boeuf aux carottes — Beef stew with carrots When I was a young girl growing up in France, Sundays were often the days when my mother cooked a boeuf aux carottes (beef stew with carrots) during the winter. She’d start cooking hers early in the morning, leaving it to simmer on the stove for a [...]

And testing recipe ideas for our Christmas appetizer. Are you too? I still have to decide what we’ll eat. So I better get my act together I am curious to know what you’ll be doing.

I’ve been meaning to tell you about my weakness for anything involving potatoes. Growing up, my mother prepared râpés de pommes de terre (grated potatoes cooked like small galettes, close to latkes) perhaps once a week, which invariably made my brother and me extremely happy. Because it was food that involved potatoes, and because hers [...]