Appreciating Normandy, and authentic sea bass on a grill

  We have just spent a week in the countryside in Normandy (the southern part, near Caen ), cooking, eating lots of good yogurt, st...

Flageolets beans à la française

Do you know you've achieved maturity (read: getting old) when you start finding youth endearing? It's a complex feeling, ...

On taste and travel, and lemony fish soup...

  Traveling is wonderful. You eat, you see, you smell, you connect, you explore and discover. Time goes by in a blink. And you are...

Chard ribs au gratin... good for you, or just plain good?

  So here it is, Food Day. I have been debating what recipe to share on this festive occasion. Or should I say, on this educational ...

Baked apple & goat cheese... and rethinking the meaning of perfection

  It occurred to me recently that this period of my life, though I experience it now as complicated, and somewhat overwhelming, strug...

Salmon-wrapped leeks au gratin... and 7 reasons why Pablo loves good food

  Steering away from my philosophical ramblings a bit here... onto parenting ramblings! As Pablo is hitting that challenging age of ...

Sunchokes, chestnuts, vanilla & truffle... all in a day's soup

Day 2 of my mini-holiday recipe marathon here. If you missed my post with 4 holiday hors d'œuvres recipes yesterday, cheese puf...

An artichoke custard... and hard simple wants

On an exhausted late evening, I browse through Pinterest, and look at streamlined, minimalistic interiors, unencumbered kitchens. I pi...