There’s nothing as fresh and healthy as a nice homemade meal that uses local products and specialties. Living in Nice, France, we are very close to our Italian neighbours. So close that one third of what we eat on a daily basis is similar to the food in Italy. Only we don’t have the exact…
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Chirashi. Japan
Japan, again. It seems that we can’t help it but eat Japanese food all the time in our house. It’s so good. And so healthy too. No guilt. Just pure love and pleasure. The Chirashi bowls are very trendy at the moment. Chirashi litterally means in Japanese “not assembled sushi”, which lets us understand that…
Caribbean “Bokit” Sandwiches
Living on an island, far from just about anywhere, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, what I used to like the most in French Polynesia was eating fish with everything and in many different ways. Meat was 100% imported from both New-Zealand and Chile, but fish was 100% locally collected – and my daily…
Grilled Mushrooms Skewers and Carrot Salad with Sriracha and Feta Cheese
There comes again this time of the year when Spring is kicking out Winter, and I am trying and kicking out a few kilograms. When the weather gets less cold and the body needs less heat thus calories, it is indeed the best time of the year to get back to a healthier diet, and…
Soy Chicken
I am always on the lookout for new cooking books, leaflets, dictionaries and anything readable about food, local traditional cooking techniques or – the opposite – trendy and new combinations of flavors. Ten years ago, when I moved out of China and met my husband’s family in France for the first time during the week…
Pan-Roasted Poached Pears with Spices
Winter has been busy with lots of things, and free evenings have often been dedicated to unwinding from the busy day on the sofa, watching all sorts of TV cooking shows with my husband. Or sometimes just by myself, because I am watching so many of them…! Instead of just watching the shows the way…
Soba Noodles in Broth with Shrimp Tempuras
This dish clearly has been inspired from my trip to Japan in 2016. It’s something I have loved eating since I have found out how easy soba noodles are to digest. Indeed, they are made of buckwheat and don’t make the stomach swell while it processes the food down. The clear broth makes it a…
Creamy Squash Soup
Winter is coming, they said. Hell, yeah! It’s freezing cold these days. And in the South of France, it is not a nice dry cold like the cold you can enjoy in the mountains. Nah, it’s the distasteful humid cold, the one that penetrates your bones and haunts the inside of your apartment’s walls for…
Cherry Clafoutis
OMG I want Summer to come RIGHT NOW!!! Obviously, screaming it out will not make it come faster (nor at all), but it gave me a good idea today. If Summer can’t come to me by itself, I’ll have it come to me by force. In my plate. Mmmmm I have made a delicious Cherry…
Red Mullets with Tapenade and Mandarin Juice
Tonight after work, my husband wanted to go to the movies with friends and watch a movie I was not interested in, so I decided I would treat myself at home with something nice that he was not interested in. An eye for an eye. Or a win-win situation? I also decided that I would…
Roasted Pumpkin over Roquette
A few months ago, my Aussie friend Sue went and tried a new restaurant in Canberra, the Tipsy Bull. Among other vegetarian dishes, she ate a very well plated Roasted Pumpkin salad with candied walnuts, that I surprisingly found really attractive although I am usually not too keen on everything “pumpkin” in the first place….
Stir-Fried Beef with Greens and Scallions
Time for a new challenge. I read so many blogs that sometimes, telling myself I’d love to cook this or that is too overwhelming. I often get the feeling that I see a lot but don’t do as much. So I’ve made the decision to regularly make a selection of the dishes I “like”, whether…
Roasted Butternut Squash Sweet Potato and Chestnuts
Butternut Squash for Dummies. I’m almost tempted to use this title. This is again this time of the year when I start cooking new ingredients for the first time of my life. Errors and trials isn’t really a thing to me, but exploring unknown paths definitely is. And then when it comes to food or…
Prawns and Avocado Quinoa Salad
Some time ago, I have tried quinoa and made a fried patty with tuna inclusion, Bolivian style. It was very nice but – I must admit – was not the healthiest version of what one could have done with quinoa. Since I have come back from my holidays in Mexico, my palate has been craving…
Guacamole. Mexico.
Within a month, I’ll be off to Mexico for holidays. I can’t wait to discover the beauty of the country of course, and I can’t wait to find out about the local food, which I love and which I’m eager to discover much more of, especially when it’ll be prepared for me by the Mexicans…
Red Wine Tomato Sauce Serpentini Pasta. Sicily.
Not so long ago, I traveled to Sicily, to the village of Kamarina, a couple hours away from the Etna volcano. The resort hotel I was staying in was very nice and had 3 restaurants operating at the time I was staying there. Although the food was quite good overall, but I could not say…
Tomato Mozzarella
Back to Basics. Olive Oil from the region of Nice is the only ingredient that matters to me when Summer comes and when all I feel like is having a light and fresh lunch on my terrace during the weekend. Or the weeknights. Or all the time. I have no story to tell, and there…
Sichuan Eggplants
I have traveled to Sichuan province (China) in 2003. Departing from Beijing with a friend, we had made the decision to experience traveling like the Chinese do when they go home, twice a year, when come the National Holidays, the first week of May and then the first week of October. All transportation modes included,…
Sunday Roast: Giant Turkey Leg
Since I have begun blogging, it has been no secret to anyone that I am a fan of Gordon Ramsay’s. I am not the crazy type of fan who would follow every move of his nor watch all of his TV shows. I try and select what to watch or read about what he does,…
Indian Butter Chicken, Cheese Naan and Fried Momos. Nepal
I first found out about the great flavors of Nepali cuisine about ten years ago… thanks to Hugues, a dear French friend of mine in Shanghai who took me to this restaurant called Nepali Kitchen! In 2006, Nepali Kitchen was the only Nepalese restaurant of the city, but I heard that now there are several…
Fish Tacos. California, USA.
I have long been intrigued by the concept of Fish Tacos. I’ve read they are very popular in California, especially among surfers, but not only. Apparently, in lots of American families, Fish Tacos are a regular weeknight meal, or a quick-to-fix dish for a weekend with friends over at home. To me, until recently, tacos could…
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