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Mia and I visited a restaurant today and I ordered the roasted vegetable salad. It was delicious and the vegetables were perfectly roasted and deliciously sweet. It brought to mind a vegetable sandwich, which I love and admit, is a selfish indulgence. Most people like some meat in their sandwich but a perfectly crafted sandwich of vegetables it just fine in my book.
Ratatouille Niçoise Sandwich is inspired by the classic Ratatouille Niçoise. Ratatouille is a blend of tomatoes, garlic, onions, zucchini, eggplant, bell peppers, carrots, marjoram and basil, or a mix of green herbs like herbes de Provence. Classically the eggplant and zucchiniare prepared by cutting into slices, something like, 1/2700 of an inch thick, and layering them, with a sauce made from the remaining vegetables, in a casserole dish and baking until tender. This is the French, and Julia Child’s, method which is way too fussy for me! [...]
Onion Soup is a wonderfully comforting food for me. Deeply flavored with tons of sweet, mild onions; simmered in a beef broth and served piping hot with croûtons and cheese. Yum Yum!
It is sad when I have a bowl of “bad” onion soup because it is so easy to make good French Onion Soup. The soup should have depth of flavor and tons of onions without being oniony. I ordered a bowl in a restaurant recently and was inspired to go home and make some soup that I could enjoy. My restaurant bowl was beef base with cooked onions. I could actually taste the individual flavors of beef and onion in the watery mass of yuk the restaurant had the gall to charge me 8 bucks for. Shame, I don’t mind paying 8 bucks for fifty-five cents worth of food but I want my other $7.50 in ingenuity and presentation.
Today, I cut up six onions. Though tears cornered my eyes a couple of times, the soup is delightfully mild and deliciously “sweet”, full-bodied and velvety. I used a commercial base but added a bit of time, some care and a little know-how to make a soup worth 8 bucks a bowl. [...]
My French Almond Butter Cake is a wonderful pastry with a delicate crumb, perfect with coffee or tea, delightful fresh from the oven or served room temperature later in the day. All by itself or with freshly whipped cream and berries or cherries the delicate crumb lingers on the tongue with the sweetness of freshly ground almonds and butter. [...]
Raspberry Tart or Tarte aux Framboises
Mia and I recently had some friends for brunch, one of my favorite ways to spend a Sunday afternoon. It was nearing the end of Summer and I found some beautifully ripe, fresh, vibrant, red raspberries at the market. As the price was good I picked up several boxes as [...]
Delicious, toasted French Sandwich
This Summer I got a new Panini Grill from Amazon.com and though I am not usually into gadgets, I love this thing! I had been thinking about buying one for a year or so but daunted by the price of most of them. This one was a great price, nice reviews and [...]
When my son started to date Jessica, a lovely Vietnamese American girl, recently I realized I had very little knowledge of Vietnamese Cuisine. As I began to study the subject I found that the cuisine was influenced, as so many others were, by other cuisines as a result of either occupation or significant migration of a people group into the [...]
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