L’Art de Bien Manger

  • Tartine au Saumon on a Train

    Tartine au Saumon on a Train

    This is a quick one, one for eternal travellers. Salmon tartine. Take a rather large but thin slice of bread, toasted on both sides. In a little bowl, mix fresh goat cheese, cream, dill, half a shallot finely chopped, capers, pink pepper, grated lemon zest and a hint of sea salt. Scoop over the bread, Read more

  • A Postcard from Summer – Fig Liqueur

    A Postcard from Summer – Fig Liqueur

    Somewhen in July my electrician gave me a ring to tell me he had got plenty of green figs and if I’d like to get some, he’d set some pretty ones aside for me. Of course I wanted some, and I immediately agreed to pop by his place later the afternoon, whereon he sounded very Read more

  • How to Cook a Duck Breast – Greeting Autumn

    How to Cook a Duck Breast – Greeting Autumn

    It’s Monsieur’s favourite, duck breast, and although I am sure of his infinite love and affection for me I secretly suspect him of being perfectly capable of choosing a perfectly cooked duck breast over my precious company.  Magret de canard, such a French classic, and thus a regular on my table whenever we have something Read more

  • Histoire d’un Festin, the Story of a Feast

    Histoire d’un Festin, the Story of a Feast

    Imagine. A house on the square of a quaint little village in the East of France. From the windows on the first floor you see the fountain, the road that lazily slopes towards the river, green beyond.  Imagine a house untouched by time for decades, its dust whirled by tiny furry feet only. A house Read more

  • Saumonette Feuilletée and Changing Plans

    Saumonette Feuilletée and Changing Plans

    In fact I had planned on giving you the recipe of my Fameuse Pintade à la Marengo, but then it’s the year of plans overthrown, hence, today it shall be a Saumonette Feuilletée for you*. While plans overthrown might not always be easy to deal with**, occasionally there might be something good coming from it. Such Read more

  • Cherries with Friends – How to Make Chriesitschope

    Cherries with Friends – How to Make Chriesitschope

    I made a Chriesitschope, isn’t this a glorious Swiss word, it essentially is a cherry cake and translated into English means Cherry Jacket. Now there’s hundreds of ways of making Chriesitschopes apparently, which is why here I give you my own version. And this is how it came about that I made a Chriesitschope:  The Read more