Velouté de carottes au curry ~ a warmly spiced French carrot soup
The Story of the Three Chefs ~ A Fractured Culinary Fairy Tale Once upon a time, there were three …
Category Archives: First Courses
Salad of Fillet of Smoked Trout, Fresh Corn, Mâche, Tomato and Thyme with Balsamic and Garlic Vinaigrette
A concert, an evening at the opera or the theater–anyone of these may serve as a nice way to celebrate …
Dorka’s Cold Sour Cherry Soup ~ Dorka Hideg Meggylevese
Once upon a time, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, there was at the corner of Amsterdam and 109th Street a …
Cajun Crayfish
To catch crayfish, carry two empty coffee cans down to the bank of a freshwater creek briskly running over a …
Seafood Soufflés ~ Soufflés de la mer
“The couple arrived at eight o’clock and sat down at once because the entrée was a soufflé.” (from Maigret on …
Roasted Red Pepper and Parmesan Flans ~ Flans aux poivrons rouge et Parmesan
In some professions, going to dinners is an unwritten part of the job description. Roasted Red Pepper and Parmesan Flans …
Sweet Potato Peanut Soup
One can make many things out of a peanut and perhaps that is why there exist public expressions of appreciation …
Spring Vegetable Soup with Pesto
In the early seventies, pesto’s appearance on American menus and in America’s kitchens was as rare as it is ubiquitous …
Shrimp, Avocado and Mango Cocktails
Like a player piano that pretty much plays itself–with a little help from someone to tend it–certain dishes just about …
Mussels with Snail Butter ~ Moules a l’Escargot
These days, in many spheres of American public life, compromise is out of fashion. But regardless of what is popular for …
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