Persian Noodle Soup (Ash Reshteh)
Gingerbread Cake with Rum Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
Butternut Bisque with Crab
Pear and Almond Tart
Le Cordon Bleu Final Week
Oh la la la la la la, where has the time gone? four weeks have flown by at the l’Ecole de Beurre. Now I am in the final… Read More »
The Cutting Edge
I haven’t seen daylight (and fashion) in weeks considering my hectic schedule at Le Cordon Bleu. I look like a white potato sack in my little uniform, so… Read More »
Cooking School Blues…
Today was a frustrating FRUSTRATING day at cooking school. I woke up early thinking that my class schedule was from 8:30AM to 9:30PM with two demonstrations and 2… Read More »
Food For Thought: A Philosophy on Cooking
When you go to cooking school or work as a chef you are in the business of creating beautiful tasty dishes from items that were previously alive. On… Read More »
Food Fair in Paris
This weekend Paris hosted the largest food fair I’ve ever been to, with over 400 hundred artisanal vendors, producers, and artists of gourmet food & wine. The Salon… Read More »
Crab Bisque
Today was another tough day. Give me a dead fish anytime and I’ll turn it into beautiful little fillets, but don’t give me anything’s that’s alive that I… Read More »
Life & Death at Cordon Bleu
Second week over in my basic cuisine course at Le Cordon Bleu whew-hoo! I’ve been having to deal with dead animals and how I feel about eating and… Read More »
Bon Beaune
The beautiful medival city, Beaune, hosts the world’s largest wine auction in the world– The Trois Glorieuses– the third weekend of November every year. The town comes alive… Read More »
Basic Cuisine at Le Cordon Bleu
Two days down and four and a half weeks to go in my intensive basic cuisine class at Le Cordon Bleu. This class is a welcome relief from… Read More »
Beaujolais!
It’s Beaujolais time! Put aside whatever you’re doing and join in the global worship of this young wine. If you haven’t pre-ordered your bottles of Beaujolais then hurry… Read More »
Butternut Squash Soup
It’s COLD in Paris! I don’t know what happened to our hot and muggy summer, but it’s definitely soup weather. This is one of my favorite homey soups,… Read More »
Vanilla Poudre
Vanilla has got to be one of the most sensual scents and tastes on this planet. As much as I love chocolate (and I do love chocolate sooooo… Read More »
