Warming spinach watercress soup
When seasons change, our systems change and our bodies crave different types of food. While summer has me craving salads, peaches, watermelon, ice cream and
Category: Mains
Sweet potato gratin
This sweet potato gratin is my new favorite cold-weather lunch recipe. I actually use a mix of sweet and regular potato for two reasons: first,
Cheesy leek “gratin”
Leek reminds me of winter in France. When we lived in Paris, we’d do our fresh food shopping on weekends at the beautiful outdoor market
A great pissaladière
Today I gift you with the ultimate French summer staple: a great pissaladière recipe. Pissaladière is the renowned southern French melted onion pizza that is
Warming ginger kaffir lime carrot soup
This exotic and warming ginger kaffir lime carrot soup hits the spot when the weather starts cooling down. It gets all its magic from the
Creamy tarragon chicken
Creamy tarragon chicken showed up on our dinner table regularly when I was a kid. You could be sure I’d finish my plate on those
Grilled harissa olive chicken
This grilled harissa olive chicken recipe is a wonderful way of preparing chicken breasts. The harissa and lime marinade makes them extra tender so do
Pan bagnat tartines
The quintessential “Pan bagnat” consists of a big round white bun drenched in an olive oil dressing and filled with all the ususal provencal suspects (olives, basil, bell peppers, anchovies, tomatoes, tuna) plus a couple of essentials like hard boiled egg, celery, tiny green fava beans and radish.
Off-the-charts-good calamari prawn stew
I love calamari in all its forms, crispy and deep fried, sautéed, lightly grilled or tossed into a big old paella. Here, it meets garlicky
Pan-fried sea bream & fresh pineapple chutney
Long ago, when my husband and I travelled to Thailand, we spent a few days on a beautiful island called Kho Phi Phi, where we