Posts Tagged ‘food’

Well, a fricassea, oh my, what the hell it is? Actually it’s something very simple and very traditional in the Mediterranean cuisine: you can find in Italy, Greece and even France.
8 artichokes
Juice 1 lemon
700 g lamb leg, cut in chunks
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 onion
1 tablespoon flour
Freshly ground pepper
Chopped fresh parsley
Chopped fresh dill
2 eggs
Clean [...]

There is saffron and saffron.
Saffron from Africa, saffron from Asia, saffron from North America, saffron from Italy and Spain, and then there is a minor, tiny cultivation of saffron in Aveyron, France, chez my in laws!
The picture above is the 2008 harvest from my in laws field: 2-3 grames of one of the world most [...]

I recently had the fortune to put my hands on a 22 years old pasta madre, levain, sourdough (kind courtesy of Semerssuaq*).
I was always afraid of sourdough: I mean, it’s alive! What if it dies? What if I kill it???
Well, apparently it’s not so simple to kill it! If you take good weekly care of [...]

Have you made some kind of mess?
Your kitchen looks like a nuclear power explosion and you don’t know how to solve it?
Your fridge is dead empty and you have to create a dinner for 6?
Did I write something wrong in a recipe?
Don’t you understand a recipe?
Fill in this form and I’ll answer all your culinary [...]

As last year, and the three years before that, Pim is organized the biggest found rasing of the food blogosphere: Menu for Hope!
Last year we raised more then 100.000 $ for the World Food Program, and this year we would love to raise even more!!!
I decided to put together an Italian & French hamper for [...]

My dear friend Sara organized a wonderful cookies swap to celebrate Christmas!
She invited over some other girls, Italians, Americans, a French girl and we swapped all different kind of cookies.
I brought 3 different kind of cookies: simple Italian cookies in the shape of hearts, cranberries rockies and this sablée Breton.
Sablée Breton are basically made of [...]