Archive for August, 2009
Friday, August 14th, 2009
Ode to the perogy
You could be forgiven for thinking they are a Canadian national food. Comforting and calorific , these little dumplings native to eastern Europe, are to be found all over, in shops and restaurants, fresh or frozen. Never having eaten a perogy, I muttered something about never having tasted them on my first visit to Canada [...]
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Picnic – The “Apri-Cumber” wheatberry salad
Nothing too original in this recipe but Paris picnicking season is well underway and there is always call for a Tupperware container of some kind of “salad”. It’s always fun too to raise Parisian eyebrows with random combinations of sweet and savoury. It took me a long time to figure out that the exotic wheat [...]
Leave a comment » - Posted in Fruits and seeds,Grains,Healthy by loudada
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Baby aubergines
Halve, smear with olive oil and salt and grill for twenty minutes to half an hour until squishy…
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Alternate canapés – chapatis with peanut coriander “chutney”
Book of the day – Mangoes & Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid. This is a beautiful book – I felt bad exposing it to the chaos of the kitchen as I worked through a couple of their recipes but despite the pretty pages and coffee-table decoration [...]
