Category: Movable Feast
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A Favorite Daily Routine
Setting the table has been something I enjoy doing since I was a little girl. The fork on the left, the knife to the right with its cutting part of the blade towards the plate. As…
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Being French at the Bistro
French Bistro, Morning: Walk straight to the counter, when the bartender looks at you, nod your head, point your pointer finger up, and at the same time mouth whisper, "Espresso please". Grab a croissant off the platter, pinch off a…
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Fruit Rouge Mousse (Three Berry Mousse)
Claire who spent a few nights with us made Fruit Rouge Mousse for dessert last night. It was well worth the six bowls used to make it. Happy guests indeed considering I am not a…
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Provencal Salad
How to make French bread and tomato salad. In the land of baguettes, where a bakery is on every corner and bread is baked in a wood oven once and sometimes twice a day, where buying a baguette daily…
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How to Celebrate on a Diet
How to celebrate a diet. Well, that is not why I was invited to lunch. Alys and Hilde asked if I would like to join them at the La Brasserie du Corton in Cassis, friends, Cassis, lunch…
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Wild Weed Salad
My friend Annie use to make a weed salad. Not marijuana weed, but actually a salad made of weeds. She would gather the weeds from the local fields. Weeds. She eats them. She would tell me, "..they are good for…