Religieuse Punk

The huge bun fashion always makes me think of religieuses or brioche heads!

Tante Marie

My mother is moving and gave me a few little cooking book gems. This one is a 1937 edition and reads like a novel. Tante Marie includes the manners with which to invites guests over for dinner, how to pick them, family dinner procedures etc...! And the cover is so cute!

The back lists other books like the Fishing Guide of Uncle Pierre. Back when times were simple? (or not- world war did come 2 years after...). in any event, I'm reading it like a novel!

A day's work

I manage some great studio time that day. More soup-based elements...come to think of it it was one big chicken soup! (And a donut... ). they have all left home now!

Cook's Cook

The Cook's Cook is a free high quality magazine and featuring an article about Clotilde Dusoulier and I.  How Edible French came to be published. 

It features a family recipe of Chestnut mille Feuille that we call a "coupable" a "guilty" :) 

The article is page 39. 

Mag link:  http://www.thecookscook.com/emagazine/2014-12/html5/

Baby it's cold outside

Temperatures are plumetting over here. Winter equals soups. Rich laurel, peppercorn, gingery vegetable soups for the heart and soul. Thickened with lentils, floury potatoes or bits of crusty bread. A splash of double cream or a spoonful of blue cheese.  Or some coconut milk for some added smooth exotic smell. All made in the lovely family "cocotte" or "caquelon". 

29 November 2014

tomorrow 29 November, I'll be with Clotilde Dusoulier at the English libray (WH Smith) Rue de Rivoli from 4 to 5:30pm for a book signing. Thrilled to get to meet readers and show some of the originals!

Tomorrow is always new

As hard as a day can be I always go to sleep thinking tomorrow is a new gift. I know we are told to live in the moment. but there is something magical about the infinite possibilities in tomorrow. They are, today, just that, possibilities and we get to model them in our heads and dress them up or down as  our imagination wants. whether they come true or not the next day, at least we'll always have the possibilities of tomorrow!