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A salad Niçoise unlike others – Salade Niçoise with broiled salmon skewer and tapenade tartine with poached egg

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13 years ago
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Une salade Niçoise pas comme les autres – Salade niçoise avec brochette de saumon grillé, et tartine de tapenade à l’oeuf poché When you eat out, salades niçoises are always more or less the same, with minor variations from one restaurant to another…and often a little on the boring side. So after a [...]
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I got my purse stolen – Purses filled with crayfish, leeks and cherry tomatoes, curry cream sauce

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13 years ago
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Aumonières aux écrevisses, poireaux et tomates cerises, sauce curry I am back in the US and I did not post anything while in France, simply because I had no time to cook – I think I prepared lunch for my parents twice, the rest of my stay my mom cooked and we had guests so no time to shot [...]
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Thinking of Mauro – Fregola with bay scallops and cream of asparagus

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13 years ago
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Pensando a Mauro – Fregola con capesante e crema di asparagi Here I am, I arrived in Nancy, France yesterday, my hometown…jet lagged as ever and since everyone is still sleeping at 4 am, I thought of finishing this post, that I had started over 6 months ago. It feels good to be home, that’s all I [...]
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Sunday dessert – Espresso pot de crème

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13 years ago
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Dessert du dimanche – Pot de crème à l’expresso This is my last post before my trip to France, I am leaving on Monday to fly to Nancy (Lorraine) to visit my parents as every January. Hopefully I will get a lot of inspiration while at home and post some exciting recipes. In the meantime, I wanted [...]
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Thank you Antoine – French vegetarian shepherd’s pie with mushrooms, taleggio and three purées

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13 years ago
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Merci Antoine – Hachis parmentier végétarien aux champignons, taleggio et aux trois purées In France Hachis parmentier is something eaten quite frequently and that kids love, due to its combination of potato puree and ground meet. My mom being Italian, she never really prepared this, but when I [...]
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Fast food my way – Grilled tuna steak on brussels sprouts quinoa and roasted bell pepper relish

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13 years ago
by silvia in ,
Fast food à ma façon – Steak de thon grillé, vinaigrette aux poivrons grillés et roquette avec quinoa aux choux de Bruxelles This is a recipe for those days you want to eat well and not spend a whole day in the kitchen. I can almost call this a fast food meal, and anything I classified in my [...]
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We dressed up the beets – Beets stuffed with goat cheese, walnuts and garlic on a bed of kale vinaigrette

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13 years ago
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On a habillé les betteraves – Betteraves farcies au chèvre, ail et noix sur lit de chou vert vinaigrette I am not used to eating beets in hot preparations, and I wanted to explore this further. Sometimes, you are so used to eating things in a certain way, that the thought of changing ways makes [...]
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Simplissime – Banana, caramel and rum pudding

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13 years ago
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Simplissime – Pudding à la banane, caramel et rhum If you are not a cook, nor a pastry chef, this would be for you…How a dessert can more simple? Besides, it’s quite light, so in my book all the attributes to be called a perfect dessert. I think as a “petite chose sucrée“, a little sweet thing to [...]
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Treadmill thoughts with Laurent – Lentils, roasted red pepper and kale salad with Labne tartine and eggplant purée

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13 years ago
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Recettes du tapis roulant avec Laurent – Salade de lentilles, aux poivrons grillés et chou vert – tartine de labne et purée d’aubergines My friend Laurent is French but he grew up in Tunis ( we keep each other company on the treadmill in the mornings), always shares with me his childhood memories [...]
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Oeuf cocotte with spinach, shiitake, prosciutto and truffle oil

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13 years ago
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Oeufs cocotte aux épinards, shiitake, jambon de parme et huile de truffe noire I cooked a dinner last week for a lovely couple who wanted their dinner theme to be white Alba truffles. Out of six courses, three had truffles in it. The smell brought me back to my childhood….My father used to go look [...]
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