Category: Movable Feast
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Being French at the Bistro
French Bistro, Morning: Walk straight to the counter, when the bartender looks at you, nod your head, point your pointer finger up, and at the same time mouth whisper, "Espresso please". Grab a croissant off the platter, pinch off a…
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Fruit Rouge Mousse (Three Berry Mousse)
Claire who spent a few nights with us made Fruit Rouge Mousse for dessert last night. It was well worth the six bowls used to make it. Happy guests indeed considering I am not a…
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Provencal Salad
How to make French bread and tomato salad. In the land of baguettes, where a bakery is on every corner and bread is baked in a wood oven once and sometimes twice a day, where buying a baguette daily…
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How to Celebrate on a Diet
How to celebrate a diet. Well, that is not why I was invited to lunch. Alys and Hilde asked if I would like to join them at the La Brasserie du Corton in Cassis, friends, Cassis, lunch…
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Wild Weed Salad
My friend Annie use to make a weed salad. Not marijuana weed, but actually a salad made of weeds. She would gather the weeds from the local fields. Weeds. She eats them. She would tell me, "..they are good for…
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Pet Peeves
Pet Peeve… Soggy pasta, or the utter opposite of Al Dente. Few things get my goat so to say, and when it comes to getting my goat "pet peeves" soggy pasta is one of them, so is cracking…