Chiles Rellenos 101

January 24, 2010

We spent an entire day at cooking school in Mexico City on chiles rellenos, which literally means “stuffed chiles.” Chiles can be stuffed with anything you can imagine – bits of cheese, fish, raisins, chicken, shrimp, just veggies, whatever. The idea is to use the chile as a wrapper, much like you would a tortilla, [...]

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Beet, Avocado & Endive Salad with Goat Cheese and Walnuts

January 22, 2010

Earlier this week, I skipped out on the Rosedog walk (I bribed X to take her out for her morning jaunt by promising to make hot fudge sundaes again), and met my friend Merja for lunch at Rose Bakery in Montmartre. Y’all may remember that I was completely head-over-heels with RB awhile back. I loved [...]

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15 Ways to Jazz Up Your Soup this Winter

January 18, 2010

As lovely as soup can be, it often needs a little something to give it a little zippety-do-dah, as the Meemster would say– because who wants to eat a big old plain bowl of white, or green, or red –  as delicious as it might be?
It’s kinda like fashion. If soup is the little black [...]

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Granola!

January 15, 2010

I was going to post this anyway – in the spirit of getting all healthy for the New Year, blah blah — but then I read that January was NATIONAL OATMEAL MONTH (Who knew oatmeal had its own month? Can I have one, too?), so I decided to stop messing around and get this recipe [...]

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Chilaquiles

January 13, 2010

The first time I had chilaquiles was seven or eight years ago, and appropriately enough, it was the morning after the Day of the Dead celebration in Patzcuaro, Mexico, in a little cantina filled with locals, who, like me, looked like they’d sipped one too many Banderas (the Mexican flag, and the name given to [...]

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Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Hazelnuts & Lardons

January 10, 2010

I realize this may be a hard, if not impossible sell, but you gotta believe me — I didn’t like them, either.
Thing is, I was hoodwinked. There I was, eating my perfectly cooked slices of pork tenderloin at Frenchie, Paris’ restaurant-of-the-moment, and I noticed that my pork was sitting on top of something completely delicious. [...]

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Mom’s Vegetable Beef Stew

January 8, 2010

When I go home to Dallas, there are a few things that I can count on. 1. The sun will be shining. 2. I’ll be wearing t-shirts, even in the winter. 3. Mom will make her fabulous vegetable beef stew, which we’ll eat out of the same strawberry-design bowls with the green rims [...]

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Great Local Hangout: Bar Jean in Biarritz

January 5, 2010

It’s no secret that I’ve got a big love for the Pays Basque — the Southwest corner of France that touches Spain, just north of the Pyrenees mountains. I’m smitten with the rugged landscape, the chaotic, unpredictable weather (it can be warm in December, as it was a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve had [...]

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Salsa Veracruzana

January 3, 2010

Oh, I know this looks fancy, but it’s really one of those things that you can throw together (chopping time included) in less than half an hour. This little salsa is a Mexican classic, and it’s a great recipe to have in your back pocket for those times when you want to serve fish, but [...]

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Apple-Fig Compote

December 31, 2009

See these apples? Look closely. They’re not perfect. They have dings. Little bruises, even. They’re all slightly different shapes, and even the coloration isn’t the same from one to the next. Grown about an hour’s drive from Paris, by the grace of the good rains of the north, these apples were a gift from my [...]

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