July 28, 2008
Lemon Kefir Ice Cream
This has been the strangest July ever. Maxence and I are having our bathroom renovated, and it is far more disruptive than I had -- perhaps naively -- imagined it would be. The dust, debris, and general lack of showering implement have made our apartment rather inhospitable, and my poor little kitchen is all tarped up, to protect her (of course it's a she) from the ambient grime.
As you might infer, there has been little cooking going on aroun...
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July 21, 2008
The Dough Whisk
I recently told someone that I was totally over my phase of buying kitchen stuff all the time. With a straight face, I explained that I was content with my current equipment, and that I needed nothing more, really.
I'm afraid this is true in a distorted version of reality that exists only in my head.
I can delude myself all I want, but the fact remains that, over the past three months, I have acquired a little more than zero utensils. I will ...
July 14, 2008
Bleu Blanc Rouge
[Blue, White, and Red]
Today is the French national holiday, known in the English-speaking world as Bastille Day, but simply referred to as le 14 juillet in France.
I wish I could offer some sort of culinary tradition tied to this holiday, but as I explained in this past post, there is none: the celebrations revolve mainly around fireworks, military parades (I had to interrupt the typing of this post to watch the planes cross the sky above us...
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July 8, 2008
Fresh Fig and Rose Smoothie
Although smoothies have been around for decades in North America, only in recent years have they grown popular in Europe, and in France in particular*.
We call them smoothies too, if you want to know, except we don't pronounce the final "s," even in the plural, and the "th" sound, ever a challenge for the French tongue to produce, varies in accuracy. Most people opt for a straightforward smoo-zee, unless they go for a smoo-tee or even, more ra...
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