Yearly Archives: 2013

New York Christmas

• Post Author:Susan
• Post published:December 27, 2013
• Post Category:Blog / Book / Featured
• Post Comments:10 Comments

New York was snowy, then it was sunny and warm, then it was steamy with rain.  And then it was freezing and clear. I don’t care. Whatever the weather, it couldn’t…

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The thumbprint

Thumbprints for Christmas

• Post Author:Susan
• Post published:December 21, 2013
• Post Category:Blog / Recipes
• Post Comments:4 Comments

Of all the cookies I make each year for Christmas, thumbprints are the ones that disappear the most quickly.   I think it's because they're the only ones on the…

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Cyriaque the Cheese Man

Market Men

• Post Author:Susan
• Post published:December 16, 2013
• Post Category:Blog / Book / Featured / Life in France
• Post Comments:6 Comments

My market is filled with perfect seasonal produce, gorgeous meat and poultry, incredible sounds and colors, and a host of great looking men. Why? Because in our corner of the…

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Girl house

Gingerbread Houses – Maisons en Pain d’Epices

• Post Author:Susan
• Post published:December 11, 2013
• Post Category:Blog / Life in France
• Post Comments:14 Comments

Every year, we get together with our friends Lena, Camille, and Johanna to build a gingerbread Christmas house.  They are Swedish/French, and building a gingerbread house is a Swedish tradition.…

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Six little rougets sitting in a row

Love Letter to a Parisian Restaurant

• Post Author:Susan
• Post published:December 10, 2013
• Post Category:Blog / Book / Featured / Life in France
• Post Comments:6 Comments

At 21 Mazarine Chef and Paul Minchelli, has the softest, most delicate touch with seafood of any chef I’ve ever known.  Didier Granier, also part owner who runs the front…

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Ready to eat

Quince Paste

• Post Author:Susan
• Post published:December 6, 2013
• Post Category:Blog / Book / Featured / Life in France / Recipes
• Post Comments:10 Comments

I make it every Christmas season, with quinces from my tree if there are enough.  This year there were not and I was despondent, until I smelled the quinces coming…

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Would you like one?

Chicken Wings

• Post Author:Susan
• Post published:December 4, 2013
• Post Category:Blog / Book / Featured / Life in France / Recipes
• Post Comments:16 Comments

A miracle occurred today, right next door in the butcher shop. There, Stéphane Coutard spends his days finding out exactly what his customers want, trimming it to perfection, then dispensing…

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Hachis on the plate

Thanksgiving Leftovers

• Post Author:Susan
• Post published:November 29, 2013
• Post Category:Blog / Book / Featured / Life in France / Recipes
• Post Comments:5 Comments

We all agree – there is nothing better than Thanksgiving leftovers.  I roast a huge turkey to feed everyone once, and to have plenty of leftovers; one of my Thanksgiving…

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Post-swim coffee

Morning Destination

• Post Author:Susan
• Post published:November 28, 2013
• Post Category:Blog / Book / Featured / Life in France
• Post Comments:10 Comments

At first light I get on my bicycle, and ride along the river Eure.  The bike path skirts fields and small housing developments, hugs the river, goes under a low…

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Thanksgiving in France

• Post Author:Susan
• Post published:November 25, 2013
• Post Category:Blog / Book / Featured / Life in France / Recipes
• Post Comments:20 Comments

Thanksgiving for our family is celebrated whenever we can.  Sometimes that means mid-December, but this year we were almost right on the mark. The stars aligned so that we could…

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