Category: Pasta

eggs Main dish Pasta Vegetables
8th February 2013

Sun chokes, penne, truffle and egg

We went to the market in the coastal town of Dieppe recently with the idea to buy some fresh and relatively cheap fish, some local cheeses such as the Neufchatel and the Réo raw milk Camembert and to have lunch at the Le Turbot restaurant there. However, when we arrived from the Paris area the fish stalls on the quay were already cleaning up because […]

Main dish Pasta Poultry
10th December 2012

Turkey ‘oysters’, truffles and bucatini

At first view that title reads like an expensive dish because of the words oysters and truffles, but fear not. It is not what it seems. Turkey oyster, or chicken oyster, is the English denomination for what the French call “Le sot l’y laisse”  (The fool leaves it), which is a small bit of meat that is often left on the carcass when carving. Originally, […]