Roasted Butternut with Zaatar and Tahini Sauce

Three Christmas trees ago, my dad offered me this fabulous cookbook, Jerusalem, by Yotam Ottolenghi. At that time, I had in mind that complex flavors necessarily meant complex recipes and techniques, but Ottolenghi proved me otherwise with this book. The only truth though is that the list of ingredients is rarely short, and the combination…

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…

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…