Soup is a very common meal in France. It can be served as an appetizer, but given that the French eat sparing dinners, it’s more likely to be the main course. The most common is a vegetable soup, called “purée.” You take some large leeks. Chop them into rounds and rinse them well to remove the sand. Of course you… Read More
Yesterday was Sir’s 43d birthday and it just coincided with an old friend’s visit to France so I made leg of lamb. It was a hectic day, as you can imagine, because Petit Prince was home from the crèche and the house (in it’s customary tipsy topple shape) needed to be cleaned from top to bottom. I made a moelleux… Read More
What do you do on a day like today? Yeah, I bake too. This is my recipe for a brownie moelleux. A moelleux is a french chocolate cake that is crusty on the edges and gooey in the middle. It’s pronounced « mo-el … and then the ending sounds like the vowels in the word could – mo-el-(and think could without… Read More
Mr. Welcome and I are broke. So we decided to live off the fat of the land. I just found out you could eat zucchini flowers! First you have to take off those little leaves there (called “teeth” in French), but you can leave the stem. You trim the very top off and you wash. This is what a plate… Read More
