Raise your hand if, at the back of your kitchen cupboards, you have a stash of little glass yoghurt pots that you carried back from France. Uh huh. I thought so. For the past decade or so, I’ve been to France at least once a year and on every trip, my first grocery haul from … Read more
This week’s Cook the Book Fridays recipe from My Paris Kitchen is a classic. Steak-frites is something I order often when I travel to France but it’s not something I make a lot – mostly because I was under the impression that to make really good fries at home, I needed a deep fryer. With … Read more
For French Fridays today, I’m sharing a book that I love about two things I love – the French language and French food. Not a novel, not a phrase book but a book about language with stories (and lessons) intertwined with useful (and interesting) turns of phrase and expressions. Pretty much a language and food … Read more
I’ve got an exciting new feature coming to French Fridays every second week! From today until, well, I’m finished, I’ll be posting about cooking through David Lebovitz’ My Paris Kitchen along with a group of friends who “met” when we cooked our way through Dorie Greenspan’s Around my French Table from 2010 – 2015. I’ve … Read more
Poulet rôti. THE “fast food” to eat when in France. I mean, when your local market sells chickens like this, it’s hard to resist.. Look at those potatoes, roasting gloriously in the dripping chicken fat. Doesn’t sound so appealing when you put it like that but oh, it’s SO good. I’m always thankful for the … Read more
Without a doubt, some of the most popular photos on my Instagram when I travel to France are of the different flavoured chips (crisps) I sample. Chips? You ask. Seriously! People seem fascinated with all the interesting flavours. I’m not a big chip eater here in Canada – they are the sort of things that … Read more