Viva la France! Thrilled to watch France win the World Cup today. Put me in the mood to eat well, like the French. Perhaps, like me, you have heaps of sumptuous vegetables and fruits who fantasize about jumping into your cloth-lined basket for a bicycle ride to the Jardin due Luxembourg or the Parc Monceau. […]
Tag: bastille day
Lemon Lavender Macarons– Vive la France
For Bastille Day, I did a little jig on my front porch in gratitude to France for the Louisiana Purchase, and then I made macarons. There just is no better dessert, I’m convinced. The last time I made these with my lovely neighbor Denae, I ate my half of the batch with embarrassing haste. Oh, […]
Fruit and Bouillabaisse L’American
Summertime in the South means fruit-based desserts. A recent convert to eating fruit, I was a bit shy in receiving Fruit by Nancie McDermott. This cookbook features fruits I’d never heard of—mayhaws, pawpaws, quince and others I’d heard of but have never cooked with—scuppernong grapes and persimmons, and damson plums. There are no pictures in the […]
Emmer Tartine Bread and Bright Colors
Just before KP and I left Rochester, where we had painted our home fuchsia and lime, my grandmother Gigi sent me this evocative image by Brian Andreas* which spoke to the compulsion I have long since had ever after living in New Orleans—to splash walls (literal and figurative) with bright colors. To my delight, this […]