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Category Archives: First Courses

Queues de langoustes grillées Kinshasa ~ Grilled Rock Lobster Tails Kinshasa Style

July 27, 2013

Queues de langoustes grillées Kinshasa is a collaborative effort.  The marinade comes from the diplomatickitchen, one that successfully prepares a …

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Tatin de tomates ~ Upside-down Tomato Tart

July 23, 2013

While a plethora of garden-grown zucchini is not always a welcome phenomenon for the talented gardener charged with finding a …

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Greens and Bacon with Garden Sass (and a good Homemade French Dressing)

June 21, 2013

…you sort of hate to be the one who gives up on something That survived until your generation. The thing …

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Tartare de mangue et Bresaola ~ Mango and Bresaola with Caramel de vin rouge ~ Caramelised Red Wine Sauce

June 7, 2013

What is a feature common to both the small, landlocked west African country of Burkina Faso and southwestern Arizona?  Personal …

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Green Split Pea Soup ~ Erbsensuppe

May 17, 2013

Each morning, many small “restaurants-’round-the-corner” in Vienna announce the day’s Lunch Menu Special on a blackboard placed before the establishment’s …

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Caldo verde ~ a traditional Portuguese soup

May 7, 2013

Across from a row of rough board stands selling vegetables, fruits and local crafts is Number 59 Avenue de la …

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Kitchen Garden Soup with Little Bread Soufflés ~ a recipe by Stephanie Alexander

April 5, 2013

Stephanie Alexander’s career as a cook, restaurateur and author in Australia puts one in mind of Julia Child’s in America.  …

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Spiced Almond Soup

March 28, 2013

Novelist and poet Oliver Goldsmith wrote these playful lines to explain why some cooks use spices with a heavy-hand: For …

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Eggplant Tricolore Ottolenghi

January 31, 2013

How to characterize, from a reader’s perspective, the ideal recipe in written form?  The results to which it leads are …

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Rock Lobster Tails (Queues de langoustines) with Sauce Muscat Beaumes de Venise

December 27, 2012

‘The Muscat grape has been grown for a long time in Beaumes and its wine is remarkable.’ (Pliny the Elder, …

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