French food

B and I celebrated a friend’s 80th birthday last weekend. We had lunch at Le Central, a French bistro located on Bush Street literally steps from the Dragon Gate that […]

cooking

Roast Chicken Salad with Haricots Verts and Mustard Vinaigrette

B is headed to Las Vegas this week to keep […]

American cuisine

Recent Snapshots

Several images are from a dinner in December at Benu. A few are from recent meals at Monsieur Benjamin and Mama Ji’s. The rest are scenes from our kitchen. As usual, click a […]

American cuisine

Home Cooking Snapshots

Clicking on the tiles in the mosaic will bring up a slideshow of high-resolution photographs. Enjoy the pix.

Alice Waters

Ratatouille

If there’s a dish that really epitomizes the height of summer, it’s ratatouille. Wikipedia tells us that it’s a traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish, originating in Nice, and that […]

cooking

Chicken with Mustard

A few months ago, I bought “My Paris Kitchen“. It was roughly around this time that I decided to change my habit of rarely cooking directly from cookbooks to more […]

food

Radish and Butter Sandwich

One of the signs that spring is really here is when I see French breakfast radishes at our farmers’ markets. Originally introduced as a heirloom radish in the late 19th […]

American cuisine

My Paris Kitchen

I am REALLY picky when it comes to cookbooks. I rarely cook directly from them. I use them mostly as points of reference or as inspiration. That being said, I […]

food

Winter Vegetable Jardinière, with Black Truffles

Truffles are little morsels of pure, unadulterated love. Their flavors […]

food

Potage Crécy

It seems I’ve been wrong all this time. I’ve always called this “potage de crécy”, but I’ve recently found out that shouldn’t be the case. According to a friend on […]

food

Quiche Lorraine

Quiche is many things — an easy dinner (if you use store-bought pie crust), a light meal, or a way to use up leftovers without too much effort expended. At […]

food

Quiche Snapshot

Sorry for the break in blogging — I have a houseguest which has sort of cut into updates. Regular posts will commence after Tuesday. In the meantime, this was part […]

food

Breakfast Snapshots

Chanterelle mushroom omelette, micro greens and marigold flower salad, buttermilk biscuit A future post — probably this upcoming Saturday, if I get around to it — will talk about making […]

American cuisine

Baked eggs, asparagus salad Braised lettuce, with shallots, mushrooms and peas Gold cippolini onions, shoulder bacon, sherry vinaigrette Broccoli rabe, with chickpeas and heirloom beans One-egg omelette with ramps Butter-braised […]

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French food

Random Snapshots

Lunch Snapshots

Roast Chicken Salad with Haricots Verts and Mustard Vinaigrette

Recent Snapshots

Home Cooking Snapshots

Ratatouille

Chicken with Mustard

Radish and Butter Sandwich

Spring Snapshots

My Paris Kitchen

Winter Vegetable Jardinière, with Black Truffles

Potage Crécy

Quiche Lorraine

Quiche Snapshot

Breakfast Snapshots

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