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Caffeine Time

Post Author:Susan
Post published:October 25, 2020
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Time still feels different but gone is the molasses. Enter the caffeine, as days become achingly short. They’re naturally short because of the season. But now they’re literally short. Until…

Pizza!

Post Author:Susan
Post published:May 16, 2020
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Pizza became the most common confinement food, I discovered in an unofficial poll. In my former one kilometer of freedom I counted 25 restaurants offering pizza for take-away. Makes sense. …

Annagassan

Ireland – Trad Music, Brown Bread, and the 99

Post Author:Susan
Post published:July 31, 2019
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Begorrah. Slainte. Shite. That’s about the sum of my Irish vocabulary, which I learned after spending a short week in the Ancient East coastal area of rolling green hills, gently…

The crew at work

France 3 Television Comes to On Rue Tatin (And Stays for Supper)

Post Author:Susan
Post published:March 7, 2019
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A couple of weeks ago I got a call from a reporter for France 3 Normandie, Christiane Lablancherie. She’s producing a series on Joy at the Table and wanted to…

Lamb Parmentier fhphoto

Lamb with Mashed Potatoes, and the Best of 2018

Post Author:Susan
Post published:January 16, 2019
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I flew over mid-December to teach a couple of classes in Portland, which exhibited huge support (Merci, Portland) for the fine points of French cooking. Fiona flew in from her…

Tarte Tatin Parfaite!

Tarte Tatin

Post Author:Susan
Post published:October 5, 2018
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Every time I make Tarte Tatin I think about my time as an apprentice in the kitchens at La Varenne. There, Chef Albert Jorant taught us pastry. I worked with…

Sweet Potato and quail eggs from FRENCH GRILL

Sweet Potatoes and Eggs – French Grill

Post Author:Susan
Post published:September 21, 2018
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I got to thinking about eggs the other day. My thoughts were stimulated by my friend Betty who gave me, as a hostess gift, a dozen eggs from her husband’s…

Smoky Pork Shoulder fhphoto

French Grill Fandango

Post Author:Susan
Post published:September 12, 2018
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Dateline:Hot Springs, Virginia. Eileen and Betsy are back… with their LABOR DAY FRENCH GRILL FANDANGO “No one really cares that OUR objective is to cook our way through French Grill,”…

Grilled Eggplant Salad

Post Author:Susan
Post published:August 23, 2018
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This recipe for Eggplant Salad (which I serve as an appetizer) comes from one of my favorite books, HONEY FROM A WEED, by Patience Gray (Harper and Row, 1986). The…