French Holidays and Weird Season
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Fool’s Fish of April
The morning was – and still is – gloriously alive with light and a pale spring sun that will become warm this afternoon. Naturally, everyone will take to the streets, the parks, any green spot available. And This is a Workday We’ve had this weather for days and last week I had American friends here …
Home-Made Peanut Butter Cups
Go to Recipe Go to Video The statistics are staggering. Sixteen million Americans eat five or more Reese’s peanut butter cups per year. That’s 80 million peanut butter cups! And this doesn’t include the number of peanut butter cups consumed throughout the world. Why just in France alone, many of the more chic groceries and …
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES – COOKEESSS!
Go to Recipe Go to Video Coookeessss! This is the way a French person pronounces “cookies” and when they say this, there is only one variety they are referring to: the chocolate chip cookie. An American import, it has invaded the patisserie, boulangerie, home-cook’s kitchen here in France. On the Palate of the Taster And …
Brownies with Fresh Strawberries
Go to Recipe Go to Video Dipping strawberries in chocolate is a favorite spring and summer dessert and decoration, and it makes sense. What doesn’t go with chocolate? What doesn’t enhance a strawberry? Justice for Berries This is a great idea, but I am never sure it does justice to the berry. Because a fine, …
Impromptu Dessert – This Means Quick N’ Easy
Go to Recipe Go to Video Impromptu meals are one of my favorite kinds for neighbors or friends, visitors who arrive early or are hungrier than they expected to be. And then there are the meals that are planned but a day is much busier than expected. In either case there is often little time …
Chocolate Dessert and a Cocktail
Go to Recipe Go to Video When I first met Forest Collins of 52Martinis fame I was intrigued. She has the style of a French woman blended with an unmistakable American openness. She is whip smart and friendly yet reserved enough that she draws attention. And she has her name, which fits in every way. …
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Bars
Go to Recipe Go to Video The flavor of peanut butter and chocolate together is truly an American construct because history says that the combination was developed by an American, Mr. Reese, who invented… you already know the answer! A Duo That Has Taken France By Storm This is most likely fact, and like many …
Chocolate Bread Pudding
Go to Recipe Go to Video France is totally open. It’s huge for all of us here though I wonder if it is big news anywhere else? I do know the world is paying attention, because I get almost daily messages saying, “We’re coming!” The streets and dining rooms, hotels and trains are starting to …
Bûche de Noël – Christmas Yule Log
Go to Recipe Go to Video Bûche de Noël – Yule Log Bûche de Noël is the traditional French Christmas cake that shows up in pâtisseries well before Christmas, to tempt and delight! The log-shaped cake hearkens to the ancient tradition when the eldest and the youngest male in a farm family each took hold …
