Wednesday PM: Quittin’ Time
That’s okay. I really didn’t want to make a batch of ice cream tonight anyways. (Although I really didn’t want to spend the next forty-five minutes on my hands and knees with a sponge and a bucket either.)
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L’Entredgeu
One of the best restaurants in Paris is one that I have a hard time recommending. It’s not that the food isn’t consistently very good-to-excellent. Nor is the service anything less than friendly and sincere. One problem with L’Entredgeu is that it’s way up in the 17th, pretty much away from everything else. That’s relatively minor, though. The big problem for me is the name;…
Duck with Prunes Recipe
This past weekend I went to the Marché des Producteurs de Pays, a lively little outdoor event where people come from across France to sell their edible wares here in Paris. Naturally, there were lots of mountain cheeses, specialty honey, and regional wines. But I was on a mission to stock up on les pruneaux d’Agen since I knew the producers (producteurs) would be there…
Favorite Baking Books
It’s that time of the year, folks, when everyone’s thoughts turn to baking. Coincidentally it’s when the new crop of baking books is released, just in time for the sweet surge. This has been a pretty interesting year for cookbooks as the trends seem to be returning to books geared towards home bakers and cooks. Thankfully in my opinion. Although some of these books were…
No-churn, Easy Chocolate Ice Cream recipe
This dessert is the result of a happy accident. I’d been developing some recipes and after a couple of furious days of recipe testing, I had a zillion containers of various odds and ends lying around. I mixed and matched things together, blended them all up, and stuck the mixture in the freezer. A bit later, I tentatively dug in my spoon in and tasted…
Blog Notes
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10 Easy Ways To Improve Your Cooking
I woke up yesterday around 6am, and all I could think about was food. Of course it was Thanksgiving, and there was so much to do. In spite of the strike, my friend David did manage to arrive just in time for dinner, a little sleep, and a early-morning trip to the outdoor market to load up on everything for a full day of cooking….
A Bad Omen?
I opened my jar of molasses to start my Thanksgiving baking… I hope this isn’t a bad omen. Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! (And wish me luck…)
The Not-So-Sweet Smell of Excess
Something around here stinks. And it’s not just my neighbor. When I moved to Paris, I remember my first load of laundry that I proudly pulled out of my little machine tucked in the corner. After I figured out the seven different dials and nine different buttons on the machine (actually, I’ve still only managed to figure out what about a third of them do),…
