Posts tagged Recipes

In Argentina, shrimps are queens – Shrimp canapes on grilled sweet potato toasts with chimichurri sauce
1216 years ago
En Argentine, les crevettes sont reines – Crevettes sur canapés de patates douces grillées et sauce chimichurri
It’s holiday season, therefore the perfect time for entertaining…I love that part of the year, have friends over, celebrating and making special treats for anyone who comes visit. [...]

My yellow baby – Saffron baby basmati rice with tofu, red peppers and peas
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Mon bébé tout jaune – Riz basmati nain au saffran avec tofu, poivrons et petits pois
The first time I saw baby basmati rice, was at the wonderful San Francisco grocery store, the Rainbow. It is one of my favorite stores in the city, not because of all the imported and organic products, or spices, [...]

Did you just say green? – Asparagus velouté with king crab meat
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Vous avez dit vert? Velouté d’asperges au crabe
You can tell it’s crab season, many supermarkets in San Francisco are filled with the most beautiful crabs, Kings crab legs, full crabs. There is nothing better to eat than seasonal products, you get very “meaty” legs, full and flavorful. Since I was [...]

The squash that thinks it's a spaghetti – Spaghetti squash with a garlic tomato sauce and basil
016 years ago
by silvia
in Vegetables
La courge qui se prend pour un spaghetti – Courge spaghetti à la tomate, ail et basilic
One day, there was a squash that was convinced it was a spaghetti and started to behave like one. The good think is, it had all the properties of a vegetable, because truly it was one, so very low in calories, [...]

For those who don’t like spinach – Spicy spinach, mushrooms and feta pancakes topped with smoked salmon with yogurt chive sauce
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Pour ceux qui n’aiment pas les épinards – Galettes d’epinards, champignons et feta saumon fumé et sauce au yaourt, ciboulette
I know spinach is not the most popular vegetable among many French people. Maybe the way it’s prepared in France has left them with a bad childhood memory, many kids just [...]

Going back to childhood, the Yogurt Cake – Traditional French yogurt cake with apples
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De retour en enfance, le gâteau au yaourt
In France, yogurt cake is an institution, everyone has its own version of it and it’s the first cake kids learn how to bake in school. I seriously doubt there is one French person who doesn’t know how to bake this cake. I made my first yogurt cake when I [...]

The cucumber and the snowball – Goat cheese chive ball on cucumber carpaccio and bed of frisée, balsamic vinegar vinaigrette
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Le concombre et la boule de neige – Carpaccio de concombre et sa frisée, boule de chèvre à la ciboulette, vinaigrette balsamique
This is a nice and fresh salad, it’s composed of a cucumber carpaccio, with frisee salad with balsamic vinaigrette and a chive goat cheese ball on top. I love the [...]

It feels like the South – Penne and fusilli with grilled eggplant and a basil tomato sauce with olives and mozzarella
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Come nel Sud – Penne et fusilli con melanzane, pomodori, basilico, olive e mozzarella
Pasta is a wonderful and nutritious meal, especially the one made with whole grain flours, such as quinoa, spelt or other multi-grain pasta.
Eggplant pasta is quite a popular dish in Sicily, and the first time I [...]
Spicy Ratatouille "revisited" – Traditional spicy mediterranean vegetable stew
016 years ago
by silvia
in Vegetables
Ratatouille revisitée
France and Italy both have their own version of what the French call Ratatouille, called bandiera in Italy. which means flag, probably because of the mixture of all the different vegetables that makes it a very colorful dish.
It seems like bandiera was born in Italy in the [...]