Tartare de mangue et Bresaola ~ Mango and Bresaola with Caramel de vin rouge ~ Caramelised Red Wine Sauce
What is a feature common to both the small, landlocked west African country of Burkina Faso and southwestern Arizona? Personal …
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Frolicking Wednesday ~ a Bistro cum Vendéglő Evening at Home…with Veal Cordon Bleu and Sautéed Mushroom Caps
It is gratifying to be given opportunities to offer hospitality to guests–both friends and strangers. But however often one entertains, …
Kitchen Garden Soup with Little Bread Soufflés ~ a recipe by Stephanie Alexander
Stephanie Alexander’s career as a cook, restaurateur and author in Australia puts one in mind of Julia Child’s in America. …
Spiced Almond Soup
Novelist and poet Oliver Goldsmith wrote these playful lines to explain why some cooks use spices with a heavy-hand: For …
Lüchow’s German Dessert Pancake with Preisselberry Sauce and Kirsch
“A fragrance delicate, but not weak, and slightly male, rides the air. It composes itself of the aromas of solid …
Csudafinom csokitorta ~ a Deluxe Chocolate Cake Hungarian Style
“True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words, ” wrote Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. (Lady Montagu (1689-1762) was the wife …
Homemade Egg Noodles
A lady I once knew believed that if she ate a chicken, she ought also to have raised it and …
Stina’s Liptauer Cheese
There are many good reasons to read Clementine Paddleford’s writings about American cooking. One of them has to do with …
Grilled Caramelized Fennel
“Summer is coming on,” writes a blogger from Tasmania in this the third week of October 2012: a succinctly expressed …
Grilled Boneless Loin of Lamb with Sauce Creole
In the New Orleans of the nineteenth century, to be a Creole was a matter of birth and culture. The …
