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Follow the yellow (well, and green, and red, and white, and black) brick (hmm veggie) road – Ratatouille au four

[Oven-baked ratatouille]

It seems that my fondness for wow-this-is-way-too-long post titles is utterly related to the fascination I had, as a child, for French longest word – anticonstitutionnellement.
I was indeed obsessed with dictionaries; which I would read like any other book. This had multiple effects on my grown-up life: I am now very good in orthographe […]

Aaah si je savais faire… - Gougères au piment de Cayenne et au parmesan

[Aaah if I only knew how to make… – Cayenne pepper and parmesan cheese puffs]

Honestly, I don’t know many cooks who don’t mind when they fail in the kitchen. But somehow, I think that every single person has une bête noire – something they don’t succeed in every time when cooking.
Well, I might just assume […]

Des bonbons salés? - Caramelle à la ricotta, au basilic et aux olives noires

[Savoury candies, really? - Ricotta, basil and black olive caramelle]

I feel a bit like I’m cheating by writing about this recipe. Indeed, I made it a couple of weeks ago; back in the days when I didn’t have a new camera yet.
But I just couldn’t let these lovely easy caramelle (as Jamie Oliver calls them) […]

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 […]

Chili Prawn linguine and vintage cookbooks

This summer, it seems that I cook more than I can reasonably eat and write about.
But this matter fact has shown me something: food and cooking hold a major place in my life.
I can’t spend a day without:
1) cooking
2) thinking of interesting food / combination / recipe
3) buying things related to food (read: cookbooks, plates, […]