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Cherry blossom and mochis recipe 2008-03-27 08:26:00 Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethCharity: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaIn the land of the rising sun, spring is awaited with a quasi-religious fervor. Japaneses from around the world as well as a few conoisseurs are actively following the blossoming of the "sakuras", the cherry trees, and even plan their trip back home around that magical time. Timing is critical since the blossom last only a few days; yet it is quite hard to predict accurately since it depends on so many factors. Scientific build advanced predictions models and weather forecasts track the arrival of the "blossom front", the beggining of the week of bliss when the trees are filled with little pink flowers.The first time I heard about this event was a few years ago while I was working in California Read more:Cherry
Le Creuset great bargain deal tomorrow 2008-03-29 14:02:00 Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethCharity: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaA girl never has enough shoes nor Le Creuset cast iron pots. Yes, yes trust me on that.Le Creuset is the Rolls Royce of cast iron pots, but oh God! they're not cheap ... unfortunately just like Rolls Royce cars.Tomorrow, Sunday 30th of March on vente-privée, a shopping web-site, there's a super Le Creuset sale (outlet prices). So tomorrow
morning connect at 9 o'clock (yep I know my dear foody friends it's very early, even more because you may have forgot, but tomorrow we switch to day light saving times).You need to be a member to shop on vente-privée, here an invitation from me to become one.PS: please leave at least one for me !!
Carrot and turnip pork roast 2008-04-04 07:32:00 Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethCharity: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaA few weeks ago we spent a lovely week-end in Paris at our friends Rico and Frida's place. Rico and Frida are just nicknames, I cannot tell you their real names because bounty hunters are after them! Their crime, if it's one, too much kindness!Our Parisian week-end program: a bike rid in Montmartre district using the wonderful velib' service, a play, a visit to Paris' flea market and the Sunday roast. If you had read my post in French I named the recipe The Z' roast, an obscure reference to the time Rico and me spent preparing University entry exams together.His pork roast was splendid, moist, tasteful and the veggies were literally melting in the mouth.Ingredients:- pork roast- 4 big carrots- 2 Read more:Carrot
Scoop: scook! 2008-04-06 10:09:00 Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethCharity: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaWhen the only 3-star woman chef opens her very own cooking school it's a mouth watering promise. At the program: being a chef for one night: a one-and-one lesson with a real chef to prepare a feast for your friends. How yummy is that?For more go to scook web siteScook243 avenue Victor Hugo26000 Valenceph:04.75.44.92.30sales@pic-valence.comPicture: Jeff Nalin Read more:Scoop
Quinoa mixed berry muffins 2008-04-10 13:33:00 Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethCharity: about cancer don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaMuffins and cookies are typical American snacks for me. When I was living in the US, I went crazy for cookies (fresh ones of course) and muffins. My favorite muffins were -and still are-: poppy seeds, chocolate chunks or chips and blueberries. As much as cookies are super easy to make, muffins are tricky to bake. Yes, those good-hearted muffins can be fiddly to prepare.For perfect muffins: rounded, golden, tender with a pebby top, there's 2 rules to respect:1- use oil instead of butter. Butter is composed only of 80% of butterfat the rest is solid milk and water. Fat helps to have moist muffins. If you're really not keen on oil use clarified butter.2- don't over mix. Leave your Kitc
Staub great bargain deal tomorrow! 2008-04-11 11:13:00 Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethCharity: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaTomorrow, Saturday 12th of April at 9 o'clock on vente-privée, a shopping web-site, there's a super Staub sale (outlet prices).Staub is a cast-iron pots maker, the concurrent of Le Creuset. On the same shopping web-site you may recall that few weeks ago I told you about a Le Creuset super deal sale. Last time I was not quick enough to make up my mind and chose, so when I sure of the color and the size of the cast-iron pot I wanted they were all gone. Hope this time my brain will work faster!You need to be a member to shop on vente-privée, here an invitation from me to become one.Previously on La vie in English: quinoa mixed berry muffins Read more:tomorrow
A cookbook I cherish 2008-04-15 11:04:00 Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethCharity: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaAnne a foodies blogger friend of mine launch a game few days ago: what is your favorite cookbook? Well it's a very tricky question. I stared at my cookbooks collection very puzzled. Which one to pick?? I love all of them, to a certain extend of course. Some I won through various games are not keepers, but I won't name names.I have some old ladies living on my shelves, but I though that they aren't game materials at least for this time. I wanted to pick a cookbook that everybody would be able to find without spending all week-ends till fall browsing yard-sales.My pick is: Supernatural cooking by Heidi Swanson, a pleasant healthy Californian writing 101cookbooks blog.I already tested her animal cr
2 gingers maple-glazed salmon 2008-04-14 09:08:00 Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethCharity: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaNot so long ago in my cooking world maple syrup was only used at breakfast on pancakes. I know it's nor particularly healthy but I love to sponge maple syrup with my pancakes. After few trips to Quebec with Mathieu I discover a lot more in the maple syrup department. Maple syrup can be used on smoked ham, on roasted meat or fish and even to sweetened yogurts. I'm even thinking to use it to replace sugar in muffins.Micheline, Mathieu's mother-in-law, in a way my second mother-in-law, sent me by emails few typical Quebec recipes. Here, I'm presenting you the first one I tried at home: 2 gingers maple-glazed salmon
, it's a keeper!Ingredients:-2 skinless salmon steaks-1/4 cup of maple syrup-3 tbs of
Picnic/BBQ in Pégomas 2008-04-17 08:24:00 Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethCharity: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaSunday we fled civilization! We went to Pégomas for a picnic/BBQ
at our friend Jeff country shack. We merrily celebrated Jeff comeback from his service tour abroad and the arrival of spring.Jeff is a very special friend for me, he's the one who carried the umbrella, my kaki and vervain provider.We hit the road directions the country side (l'arrière-pays) with 2 big wicker baskets full of food provisions.Our menu was: brad beans and arugula salad, small purple artichokes, tapenade (puréed olives), Corsican charcuteries, lamb skewers, baked potatoes en robe des champs (meaning baked under the embers). Read more:Picnic
Chocolate chunk muffins 2008-04-23 05:16:00 Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethRare cancer awarness: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaGod! it was difficult to come up with the ultimate, perfect chocolate chips or chunk muffins recipe. I did a lot of experiments in my tiny kitchen. We have in our apartment what is called in France: une cuisine américaine (American kitchen). It's a comic association once you know the size of American kitchen from each side of the ocean. In France an American kitchen is tiny place where only one slim person can cook, separated from the living room with a bar. And as you know in the US kitchens are huge some times as big as a bowling.So I tried many recipes with poor results: either the dough was too liquid to form nice rounded and cracked muffins, or too sweet, or even all the chip Read more:Chocolate
Hello New-York! 2008-04-28 13:06:00 Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethRare cancer awareness: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaJust a short message to let you know that I will be less blogging in the next 10 days. I will try to connect to share some of my experiences, but I cannot promise anything. Tomorrow my private-jet, euh a big plane with a lot of other passengers..., will take-off direction: New-York. I will visit my little brother who is an intern-architect in Brooklyn.See you soon!Previously on La vie in English: Cheese-cake lollipops! Read more:Hello
[Daring bakers] Cheese cake pops! 2008-04-27 12:10:00 Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethRare cancer awareness: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaHi my dear fellow food lover friends, today is the day the secret society: Daring
Bakers reveals April challenge. We, the Daring Bakers, prepared with love a very cute surprise for you: cheese cake pops. I must admit I was never found of cheese cake while living in California and was never touched by the French cheese cake frenzy trend. But as a docile member I tried this month recipe. I just replaced the vanilla extract by real vanilla, and it's a real taste booster, a little je ne sais quoi that makes me fall in love with this cheese cake recipe.I'm leaving tomorrow to visit my brother in Manhattan so I will give an other chance to American cheese cakes. I will keep you posted o Read more:Cheese
And ... we're back! (back in Antibes) 2008-05-15 12:09:00 Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethRare cancer awareness: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaHi my dear readers! I'm back home in Antibes after more than 10 days at my little brother in NY.I went to visit him with my Mum. He lives in East Village and works as an intern-architect in Dumbo (Brooklyn).God I'm tired! Jet-lagged is quite hard to recover from. I just wanted to say hi an
The mailman doesn't like me much! 2008-05-25 15:08:00 Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethRare cancer awareness: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaThe mailman doesn't like me much! I got to this conclusion while waiting for my "Elle à table" to arrive in my mailbox many days after it hit the shelves! It was mocking me from all Antibes newspapers stands.An interruption here to explain to the non-French readers what is Elle à table.
New York, New York 2008-05-25 07:12:00 Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethRare cancer awareness: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaI've been a little long to put the English version of my post about New York
. I haven't been trapped in any party in Cannes nor at work. If you've been following me lately you're aware that I lost my job but my MBA-husband found one. It's better than nothing, no? I took my forced free time
NYC gourmet shopping 2008-05-31 12:43:00 Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethRare cancer awareness: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaThe wait is over! Here's the story of my finds in New York. And thank God my luggage didn't cross into French without a custom officer in sight. They were cousins of the Invisible man and nobody was here to cheer me with a "Welcome home" sign.Here, just for you, a recap with pictures.As a Read more:gourmet
Oopsy daisie! 2008-06-10 15:05:00 Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethRare cancer awareness: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaThis adorable swearing summarize my frustration: I cannot upload pictures to my blogs. I'm in Netherlands since last week and I have recipes, Dutch gourmet -it may not be appropriate - shopping, restaurants reviews and I cannot share them with you, my dear readers."Cry me a river" a certai
No title 2008-06-12 14:38:00 Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethRare cancer awareness: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaMisfortune never comes alone, we got robbed in Antibes, even with my husband in town, at home.They took among other things my beloved reflex camera and its lenses ...
I met true angels! 2008-06-16 15:16:00 Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethRare cancer awareness: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaLife is surprising in many ways. As you know I'm going through a rough time, my home was burglarized. The worst is not that they took some of our belongings but the aggression is more that someone went through our stuff than replaceable things (and Thanks God the cat is still there and hea
No brainers citrus asparagus 2008-06-18 15:26:00 Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethRare cancer awareness: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcoma"He even enjoyed a second-round!" Who: Mathieu, What: asparagus
.If you haven't been hibernating lately you've seen asparagus on every stalls: they are in the season at their best. Most of the time they end-up in my grocery shopping cart (I must tell you that I'm not ashamed to possess a gr
Zoe ze cat is home! 2008-07-08 17:52:00 She came back home!Thanks so much Jeff for all the time you spent looking for her in Antibes!
Zoe still missing 2008-07-07 15:00:00 Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethRare cancer awareness: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaMy kitty Zoe escaped and we are not able to find her.If you happen to be in Antibes and saw her,she's just like on the picture:gray, mellow and also afraid of everything and wears a red plastic necklace. She has no tatoo but a chip under her skin (actually 2 chips one for France and the Ca
Zoe, my cat disappeared 2008-07-06 10:53:00 Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethRare cancer awareness: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaMy kitty Zoe escaped and we are not able to find her.If you happen to be in Antibes and saw her (she's just like on the picture: gray, mellow and also afraid of everything and wears a red plastic necklace) could you please bring her to Jeff at Antibes Gendarmerie, or if you cannot captured Read more:disappeared
Packing! 2008-06-30 12:21:00 My dear friends sorry for not being here a lot! We are moving, not this web page but our home.I'm very busy packing, packing and packing.I will be back here sharing stories and recipes as soon as the move is over: packing and unpacking.
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