I have a recipe for you. Ratatouille is comfort food – did you know that? It’s a tomatoey-warm Mediterranean-healthy olive-oily comfort food. I learned to make it when I was an au pair for a posh family back in 1994. (I also lived with a posh family when I studied in Avignon in 1989. And Sir’s grandparents were also posh…. Read More
I’ve had some teff flour lying around (who doesn’t?) so I looked online for some recipes that called for this rather exotic flour. I stumbled upon several peanut butter teff cookie recipes, and I thought – hey, it doesn’t get any better than that. I believe the recipes originate with Bob’s Red Mill website. Do you know anything about teff?… Read More
Matthieu remarked that my last post was a little self-indulgent and boring. He said all this nicely, of course, although … is it really possible to say such things nicely? (sniff!) Anyway, I thought it was time to get back in the kitchen. On to sweeter pastures. Indulge the whims of the masses. Let them eat (chocolate brownie mocha) cake!… Read More
I found this interesting recipe here for filet mignon de porc. It uses vanilla. And coriander. Together! And since another friend brought me vanilla beans back from Madagascar a day after I had used my last one (I could start trafficking these), what better way to get them put to good use than … to use them! You need about… Read More
This is our harvest. Or some of it anyway. Apparently it’s only a tenth of the carrots still waiting to be pulled up (according to my husband). The beets were pretty pathetic because I didn’t water them, so the post I was supposed to do this summer entitled, “What the heck to do with a beet!” had to be postponed… Read More
It’s finally starting to feel like Fall so I’m making a traditional Provincial summer dish called Gratin d’Aubergines. A gratin is any dish with bread crumbs or cheese that has been baked to a golden brown. Call me crazy, but eggplant parm (which is a pretty close equivalent) feels like Fall to me with those deep purples and reds and hot tomatoey… Read More
