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Le week-end du 15 aout m'a ramené dans la régionnantaise pour quelques jours de détente... L'appel de la cueillette était irrésistible, et après moulte péripéties, luttes contre les orties et les ronces, nous avons repris le chemin de la maison avec quelques kilos de prunes et des mûres!Les prunes étant trop acides pour être dégustées telles quelles, elle "finirent" en clafouti et en confiture.La

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J'ai passé le week-end du 14 juillet à Nantes ce qui signifie accès illimité à un four à toute heure du jour ou de la nuit! J'en ai donc profité pour tester diverses recettes nécessitant un four que je vais décrire dans les prochains jours.Le gateau nantais est extrêmement facile à réaliser, nécessite peu de matériel (et donc de vaisselle!) et est délicieux. Comme beacoup de gateaux, il est

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J'avais de grands projets pour ce blog, je voulais revoir son organisation, y mettre plus d'images, bref qu'il soit plus beau, plus agréable à lire etc... Malheureusement, je manque de temps! Je reprend donc le blog sous la même forme... et en alternant français et anglais. Si vous voulez une recette particulière en français, demandez-le !------------I'm back at blogging. If I stopped it was not

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I love living in Paris, the only problem there is that apartment are small and mine don't even have a proper kitchen. And the small place that's supposed to be a kitchen is so small that no oven can fit there.Going back home for hols means means seeing all the family, and also having an unlimited access to a real kitchen !!! with more than 1 functional stove and an oven !Needless to tell that I

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If you haven't noticed yet, chrismast is approaching... Paris is more than ever the city of lights and everyone starts wondering about christmas presents.December also means going back to Nantes for christmas and having an access to a real kitchen!! My mother is not fond of cooking and so I'm in charge of preparing the lunch on the 25th. So I put my nose again in my cooking books and magasines

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Last sunday was my first experience at Salon du Chocolat.I had heard good and bad things about it and it was time to try by myself. Actually I didn't get there by myself since Chloe and Lilian convinced me to join them in their chocolate adventures. Needless to say it was not too difficult to persuades me to come. At 10am on sunday we were a group of 9person ready to taste any kind of

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or "Using leftover orange juice to make amazing dessert"On a boring evening I decided to entertain myself experimenting with agar-agar again. The tricky point was I was coming back from almost a week out of town and the fridge was empty because I hadn't had time and energy to fill it.The only things left to prepare a dessert were orange juice and dried apricots...So I came up with the idea of a

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Once again a post in french... it was too difficult to write in english today. But if you want a translation of the recipe, you can for it in the comments...Hé, oui, encore une fois je poste en français, en effet, je ne crois pas que j'aurais réussi à expliquer ce qui va suivre en anglais...La réalisation de cette brioche fut épique.... Commencer à 21h une recette qui inclut 3-4h d'attente était

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It was supposed to be a "playing and cooking" week-end at my grandmother country house. We were supposed to be 10 friends spending the week-end together and we had a long list a meals we wanted to taste. Well...To make a long story short, destiny was against us and we were finally 3 remaining after the timetable/conference/car problems that happened. Not enough to play but some cooking was

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I'm leaving for the land of chocolate tomorrow, and so it wasn't reasonable to go to the market during the week-end. For once I bought some fruit in the supermarket on thursday, but I was desapointed by the greengages (reine-claudes) I had. And after few days it was obvious I wouldn't be able to eat them if I didn't cook them.Then arrived the coincidence: on friday, Lilian told me she was

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I have to confess : I looove Lebanese meals. So when I discovered that hummos (or hommos or hummus or houmos, I can't find wich one it the right) was so easy to make I was really pleased.The first recipe I tried was from a cooking mag : Cuisine et vins de France (actually the recipe that was in the printed document seems a bit different). But there was a je ne sais quoi that needed to be added or

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Summer, means holidays, and since I was away staying at a hotel I couldn't cook.Back home, I'm too busy to try new recipes so, sorry but I have nothing special to writeexcept that I found this oomnivore's 100 on some food blog I was surfing and I thought I could share.The original list was build subjectically by Andrew from Very good taste.Here's how it works:1) Copy this list into your blog or

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Last week-end I went to my grandmother's place with some gourmet friend.. While looking for things to do in the area I discovered there was a place where you can pick the fruit yourself at less than 15min walk from the house.Some of us where excited by the idea of picking fresh raspberries and strawberries to prepare desserts. Unfortunately we were lazier than planned and woke up too late to be

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When Anelore gave me this set of spoon I was a bit surprised by the 1/4 of teaspoon that came with it. I never saw a recipe using so few ingredient. Yesterday evening was the 1st time I used it.On my way from lab to home are a few "organic shops" and I sometimes stop bye to buy some thing I cannot find easily elsewhere like tahina (to make hummus) and I usually use my visit to the shop to try

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For few weeks we can find beautiful tasty strawberries on the market... And that's hard to resist sometimes... Last 2 sunday I came back home with 500g wonderful strawberries.The easiest and best way to eat them according to my taste is to alternatively dip them in cream and sugar (not that they need more sugar). But after eating some for lunch dessert, "gouter", diner dessert, and breakfast the

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Some might find me a bit old fashioned, but yes, I like going to the market on the sunday morning. Sunday morning exists! But I recognize I'm never there early... and sometimes it makes things more difficult since my favorite vegetable producer might have sold out something I need...So back to last week-end. As usual I was wandering along the market when I stopped at my usual fruit place. While I

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Cooking without an oven is challenging... cooking without decent stove is too... so I become addicted to my microwave.Sure I miss cakes, especially the chocolatey ones, and I cannot bake tarts, quiches or pies, but I can cook healthy things like vegetables...Yesterday evening was one of those evening when you want to eat something good but are to lazzy to prepare something elaborated (yes it

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Yesterday was a warm spring day in Paris : over 24°C in the afternoon. I went to the market for some vegetables and decided to prepare them in a salad. I had tomatoes, radish, zuchinis...Based on a pasta recipe I tried last week for my birthday picnic, and with the ingredient I made my first salad of the summer (I know it's not summer right now, but as I've been sunbathing in the park and eating

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Last week-end was the first really nice week-end of the spring (sunny, 24°C) and so it was perfect for a picnic. As it was also a way to celebrate my birthday for the second time, I decided I should prepare a birthday cake.My mother used to bake it every year for my birthday so it became my official birthday cake... As I still have no oven (and no place to have one!) , Emilie was kind enough to

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Yesterday I came back home at reasonable time but seing the dishes waiting to be cleaned I decided I would do that later and I postponed as well preparing the dinner to start reading.When my stomach decided it would be time to eat, it was 9:30, the dishes were still waiting to be washed and I wasn't in mood to cook something.After a quick inventory of the fridge I choose to prépare something

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Today post will be in french...because the original idea for recipe I will describe comes from Mike's blog: the strawberry white chocolate mousse.Donc en français pour la suite!Devant préparer quelque chose pour un fête de départ, et n'ayant toujours pas de four (ni la place d'en avoir un), j'avais dans l'idée de commencer à expérimenter les recettes de ma liste "à essayer".Ayant vu des fraises

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It was cold and cloudy yesterday in Paris... so I decided to stay home and tidy/clean the flat. I started with the shelves, cleaning and throwing some useless things like draft of the 1st year master thesis or old articles I would never read anymore. Then I came to the cooking books... and I had to put things in order there too... So I sat on the couch and start reading recipes I never tried.

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My grandfather is gone for a while now, but last week he would have been 100.As a man of the 1st half of the 20th century, he was not very found of cooking. He prefers to wander in his garden and take care of his trees. Nevertheless, when I think about him, there are 2 things that come to my mind any time : "mousse au chocolat" (do I need to translate?) and "compote de pomme" (sweet apple sauce)

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Yesterday we had our traditional team dinner at "Le cochon volant", which is near Capucin's market in Bordeaux.It's set in an old butchery, and the food is just amazing... I mean you can easily share a plate for two... AND it's terribly good.I recomand their "terrine de foie gras maison "(home made foie gras"), the magret is terrific, has is the "pot au feu de canard" (kind of duck stew)Last time

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Hi there!yes it's unbelievable, I'm off for a long week and except this week-end I won't technically be able to cook since I'l be living at a hotel.To keep writing, I decided I might told you about the things I will try...I arrived today at Bordeaux, just for lunch time ;-) We follow people that were going to a small "brasserie" near the place we were... and that was actually better than expected

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yesterday was a sunny sunday, pretty warm for the season and it makes going to the market a real pleasure. After a short walk and a wandering around the different product that were for sale there I decided to prepare something easy, tasty and healthy.And as I had a very healthy lunch I allowed myself to take a hot chocolate at the new place I tried with my friends after our afternoon walk...

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Last week-end I had the great pleasure to meet my friends for a lunch... once out of the restaurant Lil suggested a trip to the Pierre Herme shop that was not far away. Thanks to her I discovered how fabulous the "Emotion" are :-)Next week-end should also be interesting (as far as food is concerned) since it's La chandeleur : the day to eat crepes!My last experiment with crepes was for new year's

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What a strange title for a food recipe!I call them so because I make them mostly when I haven't been able to go food-shopping intime and I have nothing left for breakfast except carrots. This recipe was first given to me by my chat friend Mike, but as usual I modified it so I could bake something with what was left in my fridge... The god point of the recipe is that it's easy and quick to preapre

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Taking one week off and spending it to cook and meet friends ar various chocolate places was exactly what I needed at the end of the year. Unfortunately, cooking good things means eating them and even if chocolate is one of the best things on earth, hot chocolate and biscuits that come with tend to help you increasing you weight. Here is the terrible constatation : + 2.5 kg...It's not that I'm

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It has been a long time since I take holidays. I don't mean going somewhere far away, just taking time off... doing nothing... Well... almost nothing! I used my time to sleep and try new recipes. That's why I added so much things to the blog during the last days. So today's recipe is something quite simple I made to use leftovers of white wine.For 2:Spaghetti - depends on how hungry you are ;-)

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I realize today that I forgot to wish you an happy new year yesterday...So I wish you the best for this new year, lots of new exciting discoveries, fun with friends and many succesful recipes!Happy new year!!!

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When looking for something nice to eat for christmast I realize I might have a problem to prepare most of the traditional meals since I don't own an oven (but you already now that). So I read again my cooking magazine but was unable to find something interesting to bake. I needed something good, not too expensive and that I can prepare without an oven. All this constraints lead me to think about

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Few month ago friends told me how cheesecakes were good, some even tried to give me recipes, but I was unable to try it since I don't have any oven and because cream cheese and graham crackers are not very common here.A month ago I finally tasted my first cheesecake thanks to T&R who took me to the Cheesecake factory when I was visiting them at Palo Alto.My very first cheesecake was interesting (

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Donc j'ai créé le blog hier, et déjà on m'a demandé de l'écrire en anglais...So, I will now try to write in english... please forgive the typos and mistakes I will surely commit.My first posted recipe will be Chestnut Tiramisu.Why? Because it's the last recipe I tried! I prepared one on sunday so it would be ready for Géraldine's defense on monday. Yes, here we bake meals and desserts for

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Depuis un moment celà me trottait dans la tête, aujourd'hui je saute le pas : voilà mon blog!Pourquoi ce blog? pour partager avec mes proches et moins proches mes expériences culinaires...Pour l'instant il sera en français, c'est plus facile ;-)mais après quelques temps, rien ne dit que je ne passerais pas à l'anglais pour une diffusion plus large.voili voilou, ce sera tout pour mon premier

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