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I cook risotto every week. Sometimes the dish is hearty. Sometimes I prefer to turn it into an elegant and dressed-up meal. But always, risotto flows naturally, like a play well rehearsed. It’s a good thing. It’s also very convenient at the moment for various life events. One, I am completely absorbed by the revisions [...]

Do you remember the taste of the first apple you ate? The first raspberry you put in your mouth? Le goût de la première pomme ou de la première framboise que vous avez dégustée ? Like me, most likely not. It’s fascinating to imagine what it must have felt like. Every day, though, Lulu brings [...]

This is just to keep me motivated. When I told you about my new kitchen. It’s happening! Slowly. But happening. I wonder what is the first thing I will cook in the new space, when it’s ready. I am impatient now! Wait until I show you what was there before.

“Ça, ce sont des potimarrons !” I told Lulu with my finger pointing at bright orange red kuri squashes. Lines of them were neatly arranged on top of an old wooden table located in the middle of the farmer’s market where she and I had walked to. The place was filled with the buzz of [...]

Nature is shining at the moment. And my head is spinning with it. There’s so much beauty. There’s so much color. Yellow. Orange. Red. They are all here, mingling harmoniously: Bright colors coloring our trees and that seem to dance in the wind. They make New England sparkle like precious colorful stones. It’s impossible not [...]