A surprising result of spending time in lock-down is that we got to know our neighbors better and I even made a great friend – Joanne! Joanne, who has such a similar way of seeing things as me, even if we are still so very different on some levels. She is totally into gardening (I
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I had this sauce at a wine tasting in Provence, served along the fantastic rosé wines. The taste is not very strong, so it’s really ok to have it in public! After the wine tasting event we bought a few bottles of wine and a small jar of the sauce and it disappeared pretty quickly.
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It’s a sauce to make if you have an overflow of tomatoes, especially overripe and maybe not pretty enough for a tomato carpaccio… The list of ingredients is very short, it’s simple and it tastes like summer. If you like it very much you can have it as a  soup as well.

A beautiful cheesy sauce which works great with pasta. Invented by an Italian restaurateur (named Alfredo of course) consisted only of Parmesan and butter, then upgraded in the US with cream and garlic.  Yummie. You can add  fried chicken to it to make it a more complete meal. Some add broccoli, but I don’t believe
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This post is with dedication to Kasia, who asked for it after my recent posts of avocado with vinaigrette and pear with Parma ham. The thing is I don’t really have a fixed recipe for vinaigrette. I know there is lots (and below one more based on the average of what we use), but depending
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Refried beans is something I tried in US and I love it since. Back in Europe I look for any opportunity to have anything similar to the tex-mex version I had there. Wrapped up in a tortilla with some cheese is just a perfect comfort food. Or an indispensable element of a ‘Mexican fiesta‘ .
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I didn’t know how easy it is to make caramel or caramel sauce, until I tried it. I don’t think I would believe it either. Well now I know, it is very easy and requires very little ingredients. And it makes any dessert twice as good…

It’s only June so I was not yet expecting to find real mushrooms at the grocery store, I would think it will be all about asparagus and young carrots, maybe the figues would arrive soon, but I came across chantrelles and I could not resist. I called chantrelle ‘real’ as opposed to Portobello mushrooms that
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The summer holidays are close enough to plan them, but far enough not to even start packing.  Longing for a long hot summer evening, I made this salsa that tastes like summer. Just close your eyes with the first bite and you will feel like you are in South America having a refreshing and light
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I don’t call it a sauce, because it is not cooked, and it sounds more sophisticated. It is based on coriander which is an Asiatic spice, but I actually found a base for this recipe in a French cookbook. That’s why this French sounding title. This green, fresh and spicy sauce works great with fried
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