October 2009 Archive
Apple Slices with Frozen Sheep's Milk Yogurt
Fregola Sarda with Zucchini and Parmesan
Jerusalem Artichoke Soup with Bacon
Matcha Shortbread Cookies
October 2009 Desktop Calendar
[Edible Idiom] Long comme un jour sans pain
October 27, 2009
Jerusalem Artichoke Soup with Bacon
[Velouté de topinambours au bacon] It has been a while -- five years, to be exact -- since we last discussed Jerusalem artichokes around here, but they do belong to my regular winter vegetable rotation so I thought I'd bring them up again. The tubers have just started to appear and will stick around until March or April, so you can start lookin...
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October 20, 2009
Apple Slices with Frozen Sheep's Milk Yogurt
Maxence and I like to spend a weekend in Amsterdam every once in a while: we love the atmosphere of the city in any season, and we usually stay in a neighborhood called Nieuwmarkt that is both lively (plenty of shops and restaurants) and residential (real people live there), the ideal mix if you want to pretend you're an Amsterdammer (only with t...
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October 16, 2009
[Edible Idiom] Long comme un jour sans pain
This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. Browse the list of idioms featured so far. This week's idiom is, "Long comme un jour sans pain." A literal translation would be, "as long as a day without bread," and it is used to express that something is very long -- in reference to physical length (a long road, a ...
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October 12, 2009
Fregola Sarda with Zucchini and Parmesan
The funny thing about a food blog, especially one that has been around for a long time, is that it doesn't really reflect the frequency with which each featured dish is cooked: if you look at an archived post from years ago, how do you know whether it was just a one-time experiment, or if it has made weekly appearances at the author's table since...
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October 6, 2009
Matcha Shortbread Cookies
A friend of mine was just admitted to the traditional French cooking program I attended four years ago (read all about it here and here), and the good news got me thinking about a type of cookie we learned to make in class as we approached the holidays, called sablés diamant. These "diamond cookies" are classic butter cookies that you form using...
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October 1, 2009
October 2009 Desktop Calendar
At the beginning of every month in 2009, I am offering C&Z readers a new desktop calendar, i.e. a wallpaper to apply on the desktop of your computer, with a food-related picture and a calendar of the current month. Our desktop calendar for October is a picture of lemon butter cookies, as they appear in my cookbook. Delicately buttery, crisp, and...
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