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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Paris: A Tale of Two Lunches
Today we went to Paris to take care of U.S. Embassy affairs; tedious, but we did it first thing to get it out of the way. After that, two girls on the town, we did a little shopping for … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Dessert, Food and Wine, French, Main dishes
Tagged cooking, food, French, Paris, restaurant
17 Comments
Ayesha Cox’s Salmon
Ayesha Cox is a very beautiful model and a friend of a friend of our son’s who is also a very beautiful model, Dominque Claire X You can actually see Dominque on a billboard in Paris near the Bateau … Continue reading
Posted in Asian, Cooking, Food and Wine, Main dishes, Recipes, Thai
Tagged cooking, Fish, food, noodles, recipes, salmon, Thai
13 Comments
Glazed Quail and Potato-Turnip Puree
During the weekend, while shopping for Jade’s back to school supplies, I bought a Jamie Oliver cookbook called Jamie Oliver’s America. There were several Jamie Oliver cookbooks there but I loved the cover of this one and the recipes. … Continue reading
Posted in American, Cooking, English, Food and Wine, Fruit, Main dishes, Recipes, Vegetables
Tagged cooking, food, fruit, glaze, mirabelles, potatoes, quail, recipes, turnips
24 Comments
Stuffed Chicken Thighs a la Jamie
Since I stuffed that Jamie Oliver lamb rack with feta, sun dried tomatoes and parsley, http://cookinginsens.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/jamie-olivers-stuffed-rack-of-lamb/ I’ve been obsessing about what else I could do with the stuffing. Well, boy howdy, today I stuffed boned chicken thighs with it, served them … Continue reading
Posted in American, Cooking, Food and Wine, Main dishes, Recipes
Tagged Chicken, cooking, feta, food, recipes, stuffed
10 Comments
Eating Around: La Cuisine de Lolie
La Cuisine de Lolie, located on the pedestrian shopping street in Sens is a restaurant we must have walked past over a hundred times, promising ourselves that we would go there the next time we ate out, but somehow we … Continue reading
Posted in Appetizer, Cooking, Dessert, Food and Wine, French, Main dishes
Tagged appetizers, cooking, dessert, dining out, food, France, La Cuisine de Lolie, main course, restaurant, Sens
11 Comments
Lamb Shanks with Les Mogettes de Vendee
The Cathedral Restaurant makes a Souris d’Agneau or Lamb Shank that I have coveted but always forget to order when I go there. Nothing for it but to make it at home, along with the celebrated Mogettes de Vendee or … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Food and Wine, French, Main dishes, Recipes, side dish
Tagged Clay pot, coco beans, cooking, food, French, lamb, moquette, recipes, shank
21 Comments
Escargots de Bourgogne
I saw this sign when I was in the Vendee and I immediately thought of my father-in-law, 2nd generation Irish American. I could just hear him, “Holy Mother of God, we’re not going in there Rose!” It’s too bad … Continue reading
Jamie Oliver’s Stuffed Rack of Lamb
I had the hardest time understanding Jamie’s instructions for cutting the rack for stuffing: “Cut between the bones and through the eye of the lamb, leaving 1cm of meat still attached at the bottom”. “Put this mixture(the stuffing) between … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, English, Food and Wine, Main dishes, Recipes, Vegetables
Tagged cooking, food, lamb, rack, recipes, roasted, stuffing, Vegetables
22 Comments
Eating Around: L’Assiette
Jade and I have decided to eat around, since we saw the paper place mat at the Broceliande restaurant http://cookinginsens.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/broceliande-restaurant/ that listed all the bars and restaurants in town that were hosting music during the town’s August music festival. We thought this … Continue reading
Posted in fish, Food and Wine, French, Main dishes
Tagged dining out, duck, food, France, L'Assiette, restaurant, scallops, Sens, travel
7 Comments
Cuisses de Grenouilles or Light and Crispy Frogs’ Legs
Sometimes eating unfamiliar food is easier in another language, sometimes not. We had frogs’ legs when we were growing up because my parents were from the South and to them, as to the French, they were delicacies. I had to … Continue reading
Posted in Appetizer, Cooking, Food and Wine, French, Recipes
Tagged appetizer, Carnivore restaurant, cooking, cuisse de grenouille, food, French, frogs' legs, Kenya, Nairobi, recipes, travel
16 Comments
