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Tuesday, March 8th, 2011I don’t think it’s a secret that I like love am hopelessly addicted to the artichoke pizza at Pizza Chic, with its crisp/chewy crust spread with artichoke purée and topped with arugula salad and shaved parmesan. Alas, at 19€ a pie, it’s a little too, well, chic. But then I started thinking: Arugula, parmesan, artichoke spread? Just how [...]
Pot luck
Thursday, January 20th, 2011When my husband’s office holiday party rolled around, I considered making something healthy, like a bean salad. But then I started thinking. When you’re at a pot luck, what do you want to eat? Recalling office pot lucks of my past — when the slightly junky, sour cream, powdered soup, mayonnaise, and/or grated cheese-enhanced food [...]
Galette des rois favorites
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011A galette is a galette is a galette? As it turns out, no. Here’s a little ranking of the puff pastry confections I’ve consumed this month… Third place: La Grande Epicerie Pros: Their individual galette is perfect for two (or one). Frangipane filling had a boozy hint. Cons: Pastry wasn’t flaky enough and the surface was [...]
Happy new year!
Friday, December 31st, 2010Judging from the lines at the poissonerie this morning, nothing says bonne année quite like seafood. Luckily for me, I recently learned how to shuck an oyster — just in time to ring in the new year. Oysters look like rocks so forgive me if I doubted the fish guy when he tried to convince me [...]
Pumpkin mania
Friday, November 19th, 2010Pumpkins! Pumpkins! I have been obsessed with PUMPKINS this fall. In the past, I avoided them, intimidated by their grandiose size, their knife-defying flesh. But then, a couple of things happened. First, I ate a wonderful dessert during my rainy weekend in Provence — a pumpkin cappuccino — pumpkin purée, warm sautéed apples, and cinnamon whipped [...]
Daube
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010A few weeks ago, we went to Provence for the weekend. I’d never been there in the autumn (or winter, or spring, for that matter) but after five summer vacations there, I thought I knew the region: sunshine, blue skies, warm temps (or at least warmer and sunnier than Paris, right?). Emit hollow laugh here. [...]
How do you like dem apples?
Friday, October 15th, 2010Friends are coming to dinner tomorrow and I’ve been doing a little baking. Thanks to a windfall from David, who kindly gifted me with three pounds of apples, this pie came to fruition (ba dum). I was inspired by this New York Times pastry recipe, except I couldn’t bring myself to use lard. Instead, I made a [...]
Cooking with Dad
Friday, September 24th, 2010When Mom and Dad come to town, what do you do? If you’re in the Mah family, you cook a huge Chinese dinner. Twelve people. Fourteen dishes. One day of shopping and cooking. It was a marathon, let me tell you. My father is a Chinese food guru, so I was delighted to pick up a [...]
Before and after
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010Mirabelle is the cutest name ever for a fruit, and when the tiny plums started appearing on menus and in the market, I wanted to experiment with them, too. And thus, this rustic mirabelle tart was born. It has a crunchy whole wheat olive oil crust and walnut filling, and a wholesome sweetness (though it could have [...]
Fire in the oven!
Friday, September 3rd, 2010That is, the PIZZA oven. But let me explain. For five years, we’ve rented the same house in Provence, a house with a remarkable garden, a beautiful swimming pool — and a pizza oven. For four years, we’ve attempted to make our own pizzas in the wood-burning oven, only to face uncooked dough, ash-covered cheese, [...]
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