Buckwheat Recipes
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Buckwheat and Gingerbread Salad
[Buckwheat and Gingerbread Salad]
Buckwheat (sarrasin in French) has always occupied a very special place in the "cereal" section of my heart -- no doubt because of the fabulous galettes de sarrasin (savory crepes) we used to eat in Brittany.
It is a cereal that's seldom used in France (except in its flour form for said galettes), possibly because its alternate name blé noir (black wheat) ma...
[Galettes de sarrasin]
Tomorrow is Mardi-Gras, the last day before Lent begins. The Mardi-Gras tradition in France, amongst other things, is to gorge on crepes, supposedly to use up the eggs and butter that you won't be allowed to eat until Easter. I am not religious and so I don't observe Lent, but I will gladly take any opportunity to eat crepes. And last Friday, when my friends Marie-Laure a...
Green Tea Buckwheat Noodles with Cucumber and Tofu
[Green Tea Buckwheat Noodles with Cucumber and Tofu]
So verdant is this dish that it could have been my contribution to Saint Patrick's Day. But because the French don't really celebrate it (unless they happen to find themselves at one of the Irish pubs on boulevard de Clichy) and because my father's name is Patrick, March 17th is simply that: my father's fête. He usually receives a gift of pÃ...
One of the challenges of writing a cookbook is that, for the duration of the project, most of one's cooking energies are channeled into the book -- to develop the recipes initially, and then to re-test them as often as needed to refine them.
This means that, for months and months, one's kitchen activities are largely governed by a spreadsheet -- glamorous, no? -- and any tempting recipe that ma...
Two years ago, I met a young British woman named Poppy -- that alone made my day -- who introduced herself as a raw chocolatier.
I had a taste of her heart-shaped raw chocolates, assembled from raw Arriba cacao and a bunch of raw superfoods, and liked them so much I devoted one of my ELLE Ã table columns to them.
And when we met one day for her to demonstrate her chocolate-making prowess, she...
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