I’ll try anything twice but this time just the once will do fine. Porchetta is one of those authentic specialities of la cuisine niçoise I would have loved to love but it just aint gonna happen. We’d been gazing in awed fear and longing for far too long at the petrifying porcine carcasses in their [...]
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porchetta niçoise: everything but the squeal
Posted in spring, tagged food shopping, Vieux Nice on April 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
sunny afternoon snacking
Posted in shopping, spring on April 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Not much going on here, just the fixings for a lazy afternoon at our home from home in Vieux Nice: what more could you need than a chilled bottle of Côtes de Provence rosé, a package of freshly sliced finocchiona (fennel salami), crunchy taralli with chili, baguette still-warm from its wood oven, a block of [...]
this poutine, not that poutine*
Posted in ingredients, overseas, restaurants, shopping, spring, tagged anchovies, poutina, poutine, sardines, Vieux Nice on April 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My first husband’s idea of wit was to exclaim, whenever the opportunity presented itself (surprisingly, gratingly, often); ”Anchovies? Smelly little fish!” The marriage didn’t last long, but if by some warped circumstance we had found ourselves strolling the markets of Vieux Nice last week, I should have been delighted to waterboard him with a [...]
got a question?
Posted in spring on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Do you have a question for me that’s not related to any particular post of mine? Well, ask away at formspring.
my microscopic microplane
Posted in spring on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a nifty little tool – not complex enough to call a gadget – I found in a smalltown mall in the Canadian hinterland a few years back. Microplane call it their “Try Me” Zester. At 6.5 by 3.2 cm I find its only trying aspect is trying to find it amongst the flotsam [...]
Stilton and walnut dumplings
Posted in spring on January 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Oh my, what a successful festive season. As if feeding family and friends weren’t reward enough, along came the snowstorms forcing us to subsist on remnants and remainders while awaiting the thaw. But all that idle time made for some goodly innovations and as a result I hereby declare the Stilton and walnut dumpling fare fit [...]
spinny
Posted in Winter, overseas, spring, tagged Vieux Nice on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Am I nuts? This short clip was taken over a year ago, and in the depths of winter, yet it still reminds me of sunnier climes. I’m just getting excited about getting back to Vieux Nice: next trip I’ll try to snap some sultry summertime footage. Might be an idea to turn down the sound [...]
sanguine bloody sanguines
Posted in shopping, spring on March 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
And then I tried the Maltese sanguines: smaller and cheaper by 50p, sharper and less fragrant. A much milder thrill than the stunning Sicilian Tarocco, but a welcome dose of sunshine all the same.
Bloody Taroccos
Posted in Winter, shopping, slow food, spring, tagged fruit, orange, shopping, Waitrose on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Treat time at Waitrose: Tarocco “blush” oranges are on the shelves again, it’s Blood Orange season! Much as I disapprove in theory, I do understand blood oranges’ rebranding to something a little less daunting; I remember as a child when presented with a carefully peeled and segmented Blood Orange I used to wonder if it [...]
wild garlic
Posted in ingredients, slow food, spring, tagged bluebells, spring, wild food, wild garlic on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday afternoon in the woodland at the end of the lane. We were hunting for wild garlic and found an ocean of it nestled in among countless bluebells. The sun wasn’t shining but as good were circles in the stream from the rain drops. We didn’t harvest any of this garlic as the day before [...]
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