Summer Tomato Tart
What is the difference between a tourte, a torte and a tart? When it comes to summer tomatoes, there is a difference. A Tourte is usually double crusted, quite high and savory. Here in Normandy we are luxuriating in the hottest summer since 1940. For us, this means that summer produce like eggplant and zucchini, […]
Grilling without a Grill
Grilling without a grill. How can that be possible? It’s simple, because everyone loves the flavor of grilled foods, but we don’t all have the luxury of a back courtyard or a porch, a front garden or even a side alleyway where a grill can sit year-round. So, the following recipe for Bay Grilled […]
Miche’s Two Ingredient French Apricot Jam – ’tis the Season
Evreux, June 3, 2017 – Miche lived to be 101 years old. Right up until she left us she was talking about her amazing two-ingredient apricot jam, among other things, and the tricks she used to make it. She also wanted to point out the bird on the steeple outside her window and remind a visitor […]
Grilled Maple Musqué de Provence Squash
So what do you do with a huge Musqué de Provence squash that kept Louis XIV happy, but is now sitting on the kitchen counter, begging to be cooked? Louis XIV? Yes, the BBC recently filmed a segment about Louis XIV and his gastronomic predilections at On Rue Tatin, and the Musqué de Provence squash […]
The Best Vinaigrette
French vinaigrette. It’s a liquid poem you pour over freshly harvested greens, which in turn becomes the best dish you ever ate. Like any French person, I eat a salad after every meal. Sometimes a salad IS my meal. Whether tender or robust, salad greens make a great base for a freshly poached egg; […]
Belgian Endive, Persimmons, Avocado and More
I didn’t plan this salad but when I unpacked my market basket, all of the ingredients were there, begging to be assembled. It was the perfect antidote to a dark, grey, beginning-of-the darkest month of winter day. And it just goes to show: brightness is where you least expect it. Some tips before you […]
GMO’S And a Recipe
Two days ago, in the New York Times Business Day section, writer Danny Hakim wrote something about genetically modified crops that people might actually read and believe. Mr. Hakim reports that despite focus on gmo crops in Canada and the U.S. crop yields have been disappointing, rivalling yields in Europe where gmo’s are prohibited. Not only […]
Fall Classes On Rue Tatin
Summer is finally here, hot, sunny, breezy, perfect. I love it but to be honest, I’m thinking about autumn. Classes will be so much fun this fall, and I want to give you a little preview. You already know some of the cast and characters of my life from reading my books. This fall you’ll meet many of them. […]
The Season’s Silver Lining
We had a halcyon moment last week, given the deluges of the weeks before and the grey skies and intermittent torrential rains of this week (I’m looking out the window now at cars crawling through rivers of water on the street, roses bent under the blast). After Monday, each day began in the mist […]
French Scenes
Sometimes I’m overwhelmed by the beauty and curiosity of things I see as I walk around in Paris and Louviers, Honfleur and anywhere else I happen to be. It is a never ending tableau of bizarrities, beauties and everything in between.
