L’espace d’un moment – A party

One prune tart please!, calls the voice through the interphone.
Run to the downstairs kitchen. Tell Elliot – the pastry commis – to put a prune tart into the oven. Grab a large rectangle plate. Pipe a thin line of wine reduction. Drain a prune marinated in spiced wine. Place it on the plate. Take the [...]

Kaa, c’est moi – Artichauts confits au citron et à l’ail

[I'm Kaa – Braised artichokes with lemon and garlic]

Trust in me, just in me
Shut your eyes and trust in me
You can sleep safe and sound
Knowing I am around
Slip into silent slumber
Sail on a silver mist
Slowly and surely your senses
Will cease to resist
Trust in me, just in me
Shut your eyes and trust in me
No guys, I’m [...]

F is for… Fleur de Courgette

When something is available for only few months you should rush for it; especially if it’s fleur de courgette.
Fleurs de courgette, or courgette flowers are associated with provençal cooking in my mind because I don’t know other ways to cook them that the way old grand-mères niçoises do.
But they’re also linked with a memory [...]

Une soupe couleur rubis – Gazpacho Andaluz

[A ruby-red soup - Gazpacho Andaluz]

From Neil Perry’s The food I love (page 94)
It seems i am into colours at the moment. Pink, bleu-blanc-rouge, orange, green…
I reckon it might be because of the summer; I don’t know about you, but when in summer i agree eating is only brightly coloured food.
This gazpacho andaluz is a [...]